Two Weeks to Live (TV series)

Two Weeks to Live is a six-part television miniseries, produced for Sky UK and HBO Max starring Maisie Williams as Kim Noakes, a misfit, who has been raised in almost total isolation "living off-the-grid" in rural Scotland for most of her life by her overprotective survivalist mother, Tina (Sian Clifford).

Plot summary
Kim goes to a pub for the first time as an adventure and meets two brothers. She is naive and goes home with them where a practical joke is played on Kim – a fake video depicting a nuclear apocalypse and that everybody has just two weeks to live. Kim, raised to believe the end times were close, sets off to kill the man who murdered her father in front of her when she was a child.

Cast

 * Maisie Williams as Kim Noakes
 * Sian Clifford as Tina Noakes
 * Mawaan Rizwan as Nicky
 * Taheen Modak as Jay
 * Jason Flemyng as DI Alan Brooks
 * Michael Begley as Ian
 * Thalissa Teixeira as Thompson
 * Kerry Howard as Beth
 * Sean Knopp as Kim's dad
 * Sean Pertwee as Jimmy
 * Pooky Quesnel as Mandy

Production
The UK series, written by Gaby Hull and produced by Kudos, debuted on 2 September 2020. The six-part series also stars Sean Knopp, Mawaan Rizwan and Taheen Modak.

Reception
The Guardian considers that Williams "excels in her fish-out-of-water role, flitting between hapless and determined, worldly and childlike". The Independent reviewer wrote "Two Weeks To Live lets Williams flex comedy muscles while also show off her stunt fighting and stunt skills." The NME described the action drama as also genuinely funny.