I love me some post apocalyptic fiction but this show is so full of Malthusian and eco-fascist shit I checked out half way through the most recent episode. Patriarchal shit “humans are the virus” shit I just fucking can’t. Fuck whoever wrote what this is based on and fuck whoever decided to turn it into a TV series.
Read the books a few years ago, it definitely suffers from “male sci-fi protagonist” tropes but it was mostly a pretty dry story about young guy observing the collapsed society and eventually settling down with a group of people and his observations of his life, then the lives of the children, and his eventual death.
There really weren’t that many parts where there was human/human conflict and those were pretty short subplots that were quickly resolved.
It was like “The Road” but without any cannibals.
i only watched the first episode and it felt like the showrunners were either nazis or gay because the protagonists some butch, hot and unrealistic all at the same time.
i felt like it was just me so i was going to choke down another episode since i REALLY like apocalyptic scifi; but now that someone else has voice the same feeling that i had, i think i should listen to what my subconscious mind starting telling me within the first half of that episode.
Yeah I love apocalypse sci-fi stuff too which is why I was so disappointed. Dude literally has a come to Jesus moment in the first episode reading the Bible and I was like nope.
nice catch; i partial stopping paying attention after first 5 minutes simply because of blue eyed, blond haired, 20-something who owns his own home and can afford to randomly go out hunting like they have no job.
Wait…
spoiler
…so the protagonist isn’t a young college kid doing a geology project on his own out in the middle of nowhere possibly dying of a poisonous snake bite when the plague hits?
That seems like an unecessary change.
the snake bite is still there; but yes, no college roomates and he lives out in the middle of nowhere in an upper middle class house to himself.