The Rapture review – this apocalyptic drama couldn’t be here at a better time

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When The Rapture by Liz Jensen was first published, in 2010, it was set in a near-future when temperatures in the UK are rising to unbearable heights, culty-Christian groups with apocalyptic bents are springing up all over the place and there is a growing sense that the world is going mad. Swap out “culty-Christian” for “political extremists bent on embracing the apocalypse rather than trying to save us from it” and it would be a deluded soul indeed who wouldn’t place it among fiction’s more prescient offerings. The adaptation that has arrived on our screens 16 years later – a study in physical and mental discomfort – is the perfect…

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