Ruth Jones is part of a new five-part drama set in Wales during a brutal heatwave, and the cast puts Ruth Madeley at the center of the story as Dr Gabs Fox returns to work after a life-changing accident.
The series is built around climate-crisis catastrophes, charismatic religious leaders and a girl who believes she can predict the end of the world. That mix gives the drama a wider frame than a straightforward disaster story, with the heatwave serving as the pressure point rather than the whole plot.
Ruth Madeley as Dr Gabs Fox
Ruth Madeley plays Dr Gabs Fox, a therapist whose first move back into work comes after an accident left her paralysed and her husband dead. Her first case is Bethany Krall, a mouthy teenager who draws disturbing sketches and says they come true.
That pairing does the heavy lifting. The drama is not just about a damaged world outside the hospital; it is also about a clinician trying to function while facing a patient whose claims pull the story toward the uncanny.
Bethany Krall and the hospital case
Bethany Krall gives the series its sharpest internal conflict because she is not presented as a passive patient. She is described as mouthy, and the sketches she produces are not treated as harmless eccentricity.
Ruth Jones, Iwan Rheon and Jack Farthing complete the cast, which gives the five-part format enough room for the hospital material and the climate-crisis angle to run together. That structure should matter to viewers who want something more engineered than a single-idea thriller.
Wales in a heatwave
Wales is the setting, and the brutal heatwave is the backdrop that pushes the drama into climate-crisis territory. The story uses that pressure to connect private trauma, public fear and the possibility that Bethany's drawings may be more than drawings.
For viewers, the practical takeaway is simple: this is the kind of series that depends on its ensemble rather than one headline name. The unanswered piece is Ruth Jones's specific role in the drama, and that is the detail that will tell you how the series balances its hospital plot against its wider end-of-world premise.
