Tasting Notes

ABC Movie of the Week, for some reason captured from BBC5.

A wasted premise: humongous SoCal heatwave forces young couple into the mountains with unborn child, where they face survival against the elements and their self-serving neighbors.

Somehow manages to be entirely small and unambitious. The freakin’ apocalypse is burning the place up, and the plot reduces to getting a makeshift oxygen tent set up for the infant.

And then it rains.

I kept thinking I need to re-read Ballard, The Burning World.