You, Me and the Apocalypse
You, Me and the Apocalypse is a British-American comedy-drama miniseries. The series was green-lit on 8 January 2015. It debuted on Sky 1 on 30 September 2015 and on NBC on 28 January 2016. Sky 1 said in March 2016 there would be no second series.
Plot
With their days numbered, a group of people struggle with the inevitable apocalypse after it is discovered that a comet is on a collision course with Earth.Jamie Winton works as a bank manager in Slough, England, living with his best friend, Dave Bosley, and his adoptive mother, Paula. Jamie vows to find his wife, Layla, who disappeared seven years ago, and his biological mother before the comet hits. In one of many revelations that occurs before the comet strikes, he learns he has a twin brother named Ariel Conroy.
Meanwhile, Rhonda McNeil is imprisoned in New Mexico, United States, after taking the blame for a hacking crime committed against the National Security Agency by her son Spike. There, she meets a white supremacist named Leanne.
In Washington, D.C., Rhonda's brother Scotty and his husband, U.S. General Arnold Gaines, are working to stop the comet that will cause the apocalypse.
At the Vatican, Father Jude and Sister Celine work to find the potential Antichrist and the world's savior. In the end, as explained at the beginning of the series, most of these people will come to be in a bunker together under Slough as they watch the apocalypse on television.
Cast
Main
- Mathew Baynton as estranged identical twin brothers Jamie Winton and Ariel Conroy. Jamie works as a bank manager in Slough and still hopes his wife—Layla—will return after going missing seven years ago on their honeymoon. Ariel is known as White Horse, the leader of the cyber terrorist group Deus Ex Machina.
- Joel Fry as Dave Bosley, Jamie's best friend and housemate.
- Pauline Quirke as Paula Winton, Jamie's adoptive mother.
- Rob Lowe as Father Jude Sutton, a foul mouthed, chain-smoking Vatican priest assigned to the recently reopened office of Devil's Advocate, tasked with confirming miracles and running background checks on potential saints.
- Gaia Scodellaro as Sister Celine Leonti, a young nun sent to the Vatican to work with the Devil's Advocate's office as Father Jude's partner.
- Jenna Fischer as Rhonda McNeil, a former librarian, is now imprisoned in a New Mexico maximum security prison to protect her son, Spike.
- Kyle Soller as Scotty McNeil, Rhonda's twin brother and a minor Washington bureaucrat in the Special Situations Group. He is married to Arnold Gaines.
- Paterson Joseph as Army Major General Arnold Gaines, the United States general spearheading the efforts to either stop the apocalypse or at least have humanity's future safely secured when it does come.
- Megan Mullally as Leanne Parkins, a white supremacist in prison with Rhonda. She is married to Todd and is the mother of Junior and Jolene. She escapes prison with Rhonda.
- Diana Rigg as Sutton, the mother of Jude, Rhonda, and Scotty, grandmother of Jamie, Ariel, and Spike, and great-grandmother of Frankie.
- Prasanna Puwanarajah as Rajesh McNeil, Rhonda's husband. He is hospitalized and terminally ill.
- Fabian McCallum as Spike McNeil, Rhonda's teenaged son and a hacker. His mother ended up in jail to protect him after he illegally hacked the NSA.
- Anastasia Hille as Mary Conroy. She gave birth to twins, first Jamie and then Ariel, and abandoned Jamie as a newborn in a cardboard box at a church car park in Slough.
- Karla Crome as Layla, Jamie's wife who disappeared seven years ago.
- Grace Taylor as Frankie, Layla and Jamie's six-year-old daughter who Jamie was unaware existed.
Guest
- Nick Offerman as Buddy, a cross-dressing man in his fifties who, after finding out Rhonda is a convict, holds her at gunpoint until the police arrive.
- Adam Nagaitis as Todd Jr.
- Pippa Winslow as US Politician, a politician in a cabinet meeting discussing and focuses on the task given to her.