![]() ![]() As the kids carry on, every 24 hours a massive reality-wave sweeps around the world and anyone caught out in it vanishes, while the wave also deposits “Creepers”, pasty white human-shaped monsters who come out at night and eat people. New Zealand’s three-season youth sci-fi drama imagines what would happen if grownups mysteriously all vanished and all technology stopped working. The first season is based on Tom Perrotta’s 2011 novel of the same name, and Tom worked hand in hand with series executive producer Damon Lindelof (Lost) as co-creator and writer throughout the other two seasons as they went off the map in fascinating ways, including an alternate dimension in which the President of the United States can only launch a nuclear attack by surgically removing a key from the heart of his doppelganger, who’s been sent to assassinate him. The Leftovers’s real question is how we carry on and, in a rare twist for the apocalypse, the answer is hope and optimism. Over three seasons, this sci-fi drama series explores how we deal with confusion and grief, and who we turn to in the face of loss, as 2% of the world’s population vanishes overnight without trace and without explanation. The series imagines how current cultural groups within Manhattan might develop and build together as the area becomes a post-apocalyptic nation state without police or military forces. Ava DuVernay’s four-part action mini-series DMZ (based on Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli’s 2006 graphic novel of the same name) focuses on a medic named Alma Ortega (Rosario Dawson) who sneaks into the ruins of Manhattan to reunite with her son after they were separated during the evacuation of the city during a civil war that split the US into the Free States of America and the (remaining) United States, with Manhattan forming the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the two. ![]()
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