‘Hen dos are the perfect recipe for comedies,’ says Caroline Moran, the writer of Henpocalypse!
From Bridesmaids to Bachelorette and Rough Night, countless comedies have brought to life the wild – and sometimes laborious – experience of hen dos, with their mad outfits, muscular strippers, drunken arguments and bonding moments. But what happens when your hen do is interrupted by a unique and unprecedented complication – the end of the world as we know it?
Henpocalypse!, a new BBC Two sitcom beginning next Tuesday, explores that very dilemma, following five hens who are forced to wait out the apocalypse in an isolated holiday cottage in Wales. Emerging from quarantine, and armed with sex toys as spears, they find the male population is almost wiped out and Britain is a hellscape where only the fittest can survive.
