'No Tomorrow' Series Premiere Review: Is This A TV Movie Or A Show?

I know one thing for sure, if the world was ending, I’d want to spend my last days with Xavier also because he. can. get. it! No Tomorrow premiered tonight and it’s a fun show, I enjoyed it and its quirks. Here’s a quick overview.

The show follows Evie (Tori Anderson), a by the books kind of girl who works for a company similar to Amazon and Xavier (Joshua Sasse), the guy who throws a wrench into Evie’s “perfect” life and oh, he also believes that the world is ending in 8 months and 12 days…what? The way the two meet is cute but predictable when watching rom-coms. She saw him at the farmers’ market one day when he came up to her as she asked about rutabagas. After that moment, he was her dream guy that she’d never see again until that fateful day where his mail was accidentally delivered to her house. Once there, he invites her in and drops the asteroid on her. He used to have a normal copywriting job for a science magazine and that’s when he found out about the asteroid on its way to Earth. Evie obviously thinks he’s insane, but I was able to get past the crazy because of his face sorrynotsorry. NASA hasn’t replied to his email, but he’s prepared. He completed his ‘apocalyst’ with everything he wanted to do in those 8 months on it, including meet the hot rutabaga girl from the market aww.  He lives his life to the fullest every day and that is something Evie isn’t into which is obvious when she stated one thing she wanted to do before the world came crashing down was put foil in a microwave…. girl bye. Xavier takes Evie to complete one of the things on his list which was ride a dune buggy in the desert and she had a blast. That was the wake-up call that she needed. She had to remember what it was like to try new things and have fun.

The episode did have its bumps as any rom-com would. Xavier took it upon himself to send Evie’s boss a resignation email so that she could start living her life how she wanted. That definitely crossed the line. How do you do that to someone, let alone someone you don’t even really know? Evie found out that she had a heart condition as well. Evie had Xavier to thank for that because had she not gotten hurt, she never would’ve gone to the hospital (she has a fear of them) had she not fallen off of her pogo stick with Xavier watching and the worst could’ve happened. After the realization that her life and the world could end at any time, Evie creates her own apocalyst. There are only two things on it and the first has to do with her boyfriend Timothy, who barely speaks above a whisper, and turn down his proposal. The second thing was to tell Xavier that she was down to complete her apocalyst items but on her terms.

That all happened in one episode. It felt kind of like a rushed movie to me. I wish so much hadn’t taken place so fast. If the show continues on this path, I’m not sure it’ll make it to season two as the apocalypse would’ve come and gone by the end of season one. I hope that isn’t the case because there are gems in this show. Evie’s friends are entertaining and so is her family. Especially her nephew who replied with a no, thank you to the knee pads that Timothy had gotten him for his birthday. Hopefully, the show finds it’s footing because I think it fits in nicely with the line up The CW has going.

What did you think of the premiere?

No Tomorrow airs on Tuesdays at 9PM on The CW