The hen party is a rite of passage for every bride-to-be; that one last ‘hurrah’ with their beloved girlfriends before they tie the knot and their single life comes to an end. Always a memorable occasion, carnage is guaranteed this week as one woman’s celebrations are interrupted by the end of the world in Caroline Moran’s new BBC Two comedy, Henpocalypse!
The six-parter centers on demanding bride Zara (We Are Lady Parts’ Lucie Shorthouse) and her fellow working-class West Midlander ‘hens’: Chief bridesmaid Shelly (Cheaters’ Callie Cooke), conspiracy theorist beautician Veena (White Gold’s Lauren O’Rourke), one-woman disaster zone Jen (Landscapers’ Kate O’Flynn) and Zara’s formidable mother Bernadette (The Pact’s Elizabeth Berrington) as their hen-do in a remote cottage in Wales is thrown into chaos when an epidemic of ‘crab measles’ brings about the apocalypse.
