In “Earth Abides,” when a plague of unprecedented virulence sweeps the globe, the human race is all but wiped out. In the aftermath, as the great machine of civilization slowly and inexorably breaks down, only a few shattered survivors remain to struggle against the slide into extinction. The series is based on George R. Stewart’s classic sci-fi novel of the same name.
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Looks good. Every image in the trailer could be drawn from the book - with 3/4 of a century of changes resulting in... relatively minor changes.
It is a great book which was adapted into a very good two part episode of the radio drama Escape, but I just don't think I care to see a drawn out filmed adaptation, even if it is probably above average.
I wasn't impressed by the first episode. Too many unbelievable things.
Surviving weeks in bed with bottled water, electric power still going, not getting infected from corpses.
Reading the Imdb reviews, all the high ones are by people who read the book. I suspect there is lots of internal dialog or narration.
Sounds like a waste of time. I will avoid.
shareIt's not that bad, and at least for me it kinds of grows on me despite many things I find annoying. Like Ish/Isherton the main character's name is bad enough, but he is an idiot. He goes on these trips in cars he knows nothing about, that could break down on the freeway, with no services in sight driving at 100mph from seems like LA area to Las Vegas.
Finds a dog going feral in the road by almost running him over, and then doesn't give him any water or food. Same with people he meets. Oh, and hooks up with this older black women and they decides to repopulate the planet. She is having a baby who is coming out backwards, and he does not even bother to wash his hands when he reaches inside her to try to shift the little guy's legs out of the way.
The whole series is like this - like it was written by a dyslexic with autism.
That said it has its good point, but you have to overlook a lot.
Corpses don't breathe or cough, or generate virus. I saw a documentary about a guy who got a nasty snake bite, and he survived, but he has some necrosis where the poison killed his skin. So, that was the main mistake I saw as far as that - they showed his hand and it had healed like he only got a mosquito bite.
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