Anyone watching this? It is pretty much as I described it in the title above.
A nuclear attack zombifies all of the adults in a California town and the teens turn into a Mad Max-style post apocalyptic wasteland with the jocks running it. Matthew Broderick shows up as the principal of the school (before the explosion) and there is some winking acknowledgement to his role as Bueller. I like the other actors in it though I’m not familiar with them from other work.
It’s a little more flash than substance, I admit, and the show takes some potshots at woke culture and it’s a little tropey with cliques. Despite that, it’s got some nice action, some gore, some absurd humor, and some good music that’s kept me entertained along the way.
My fifteen year old and I are watching it. We’re only three episodes in but it’s actually pretty good. I find it funny and self-referential and downright hilarious.
They’re doing a pretty good job of presenting a post-apocalyptic world without a lot of real special effects (or the budget for it).
I liked it quite a bit. The humor was really well-written, if for a younger audience. It was interesting to note many memes (even quite older ones) were woven in as jokes, as well.
Although it definitely comes across as light entertainment, there’s some fairly substantial, if not philosophically complicated, metaphor going on.
I think they layered it pretty well. Mostly oriented to school aged kids and a lot of references that you don’t have to get to Boomer/Gen-x stuff, especially movies.
I do love Matthew Broderick as the principal, and that they abolutely state what this is - a Teen Comedy as a series, but after the apocalypse. On another board I found this cute reference - Josh (Colin Ford) is the child actor who played Young Sam in Supernatural flashbacks. That makes the naming of Sam Dean even more hilarious
I have to rewatch it on a bigger Screen, because some of the pop-ups are really funny but barely discernible on my phone. Their awareness and lampshading of the tropes is funny, (like the Switch of the voiceover in Episode 3), the Ghoulie Bite Thing, etc. I am at Episode 4, don’t know how Long it will hold up.
I tried it last night andmade it about fifteen minutes in. The main character just gets on my every last nerve, with his, “Life after the apocalypse is great, because it means I’m AWESOME, smirk smirk smirk!” routine. I don’t think it’s for me.
That’s kind of the point about the character though. He was a C student, pretty nondescript, who didn’t fit in with any of the high school cliques who is somehow really good at surviving an apocalyptic wasteland because of it. The POV shifts to other characters along the way but he’s still the main protagonist. If you can’t stand him, you’ll still probably hate the show even with the other characters I would imagine.
Ok, so far there is unanimity here, this show is either great or sucks. Nobody’s calling it down the middle. That’s my kind of show, I’ll give it a try.
I thought the trailers for this looked awful. But I love Tucker and Dale vs Evil, so the format has potential. But this didn’t strike me as nearly as clever as that.
