The Last Man on Earth is the most accurate fictional pandemic
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- Опубликовано: 20 мар 2022
- Movies, TV and Video games about pandemics are usually overblown. The Last Man on Earth wasn't, and now that Covid's happened, it feels more realistic than any piece of fiction about a virus.
/ stubagful 
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One of the funniest best written shows of all time. It's a national tragedy it was cancelled.
For real I was shocked when I found out. One of my top 10 shows of all time.
It's in my top 5 shows definitely
I loved watching this show when it first came out stopped watching after season 2. Is season 3 and 4 worth the watch?
@@MVPMMA I just finished season 3 and 4, and i'd deff say its worth it!! Although there isn't really a proper ending n end on a cliffhanger, its rlly good
Yup. Season 4, ep. 2, the scene where they try to break the news to Glen is some of the funniest TV ever made. They should really make a The Last Man on Earth movie.
Absolutely stoked to see you talk about this, feels like one of the most underrated shows in years.
Not sure if its touched upon since this is before I watch but I always remember someone saying that this is a unique apocalypse show, because there is no actual danger to the cast forcing them to stay together. It's pretty much an entirely peaceful time now and they only stick together because no matter how much they argue, people crave company with other people and they can survive better as a team.
I fucking adore this sense of "it's the end of the world so now what?" So underrated it makes the cancellation even worse. I want a series 5 so bad
@@Stubagful I'm still salty over no series 5. Will Forte did reveal what he wanted the season to be about in an interview though so there's that, though its just another arc in what seems to be an open ended story, which I realise is the only way this show could go. Offering closure would betray the point I think, which is even more clear to me after watching this video.
Also you touched upon this in the video but I like how they sidnt shy away from mining as much as possible out of the concept. Other stuff like what if someone was shipwrecked and missed the apocalypse or what if your partner got trapped in another country were also interesting ideas I'm happy I got to see finally visualized
@@SmartSmears I know it wouldn't be the same, but I'd like to see the show continue as a comic. It could take the place of The Walking Dead now that's finished. Comics for the open ended nature of the story well
@@SmartSmears I'd like to have one final episode which is just 20 minutes of Tandy's closure song about everything they've experienced with eachother
I’m just glad they’ve actually acknowledged unmanned nuclear power plants. Eventually the automated systems are going to fail, if you thought the virus was bad, fallout is going to be another.
it's likely the reactors would run put of fuel before reaching a meltdown
I watched this while I was sick with covid last month. Its free on prime at the moment, highly recommended
Highly recommend either reading or watching Station Eleven if you want more pandemic fiction about people and not action stars, the adaptation on HBO max is fantastic and the book has been a favourite of mine for years
It's on Hulu too right?
Did you watch all the seasons Stu. I thought it started off really well then got a bit convoluted and ran out of steam so I bailed about season 3 I think.
@@gamergeek2434Yep
The nuclear power plant thing- the factor that ruins every fantasy of living in the post-apocalypse.
Elaborate
@@wurzel9671
Basically the worry that, if the majority of humans suddenly disappeared or died, the remaining humans might have to deal with anything we had running that needed human intervention/maintenance to avoid becoming another extinction event. I believe most power plants have failsafes in that regard, but I honestly don't know enough to say one way or the other if that's safe in the long term.
@@THATGuy5654 Nearly every nuclear plant has failsafe computer stuff that would stop them from just imploding. All the European ones anyway.
@@TheSmart-CasualGamer They weren't actually exploding in the show, more leaking radiation. Though I assume in real life there are failsafes for that as well
@@ShelledHandle I did a lot of research, yes there are safety systems that would initialize automatically, but they are not 100% guaranteed, to simplify it, the alarm systems would alert first and then the safety systems would attempt to cool down the reactor to a point where it cant be safely shutdown, if the system is unable to bring the core down to the required temperature then it will attempt to keep the core at a stable temperature until the fuel burns off completely, but over time equipment and systems will require maintenance, if not given the proper care they may become damaged eventually, the fuel rods could over heat if the core is unable to be held at a stable temperature, inflicting damage to the rods and causing vaporized reactor fuel, the irradiated gas would apply pressure in the countainment chamber of the reactor until it releases via a violent explosion, finally, lethal radioactive gas would be pumped into the atmosphere, I drew a map, and calculated which areas would likely be affected by radiation and it would be the entirety of eastern side of north America.
I really hope this video blows up. The Last Man on Earth is one of my favourite live-action shows of all time and despite it lasting 4 seasons, which is more than the average show gets nowadays if they're lucky, I have barely seen anyone talk about it. I have watch the whole series on Disney+ Star twice and now I'm thinking of watching it a third time just from this video alone. Thank you for giving some insight into how this show would unknowingly reflect the real world and I hope you make more videos like this in the future.
I want season 5 so bad 😭😭😭
We need closure, closure, closure, closure
i watched the first two seasons of this show a lot of time ago and after the pandemic i decided to watch the whole series... the Pam scenes before the catastrophy really SHOOK me, it was so real it became 1000 times more hilarious
Just finished the last episode on Hulu. Great show. Wish we could’ve had more.
The description of this show reminds me of a radio 4 comedy where all but a few people have disappeared and the last few people on earth live in a house together and have to deal with standard every day issues that just come with living with other people. But really that is the more realistic thing that would happen.
"Fleshy-headed Mutant, are you friendly?"
"No way, eh! Radiation has made me an enemy of civilization."
I wish to dispute the Last of Us comparison… TLOU was a fungal pandemic, I know that if everyone I meet may give me athlete’s foot, I’d shoot them on sight.
//s
So that ending hits hard right now given I'm Covid Positive and that's exactly what i'm doing now. Cheers for calling me out on my bullshit haha
Had it three weeks ago. A sofa and Netflix for five days, not a shotgun and a horde of mushroom people
Bringing up Last of us Part 2 because I hate myself
...so, anyone wanna talk about the last jedi again for the next 8 billion years?
I know you will probably never see this comment but here we go:
I feel like your criticisms of The Last Of Us fall flat considering that everything you bring up is directly addressed in the games, and plays a huge part in the themes of the second game.
You say that the game treats its human enemies as disposable bad guys who’s death mean nothing, however it actually has the most humanised enemies I have ever seen in gaming. The fact that they referrer to each other by name, the casual conversations they have with each other about things like food, family and their dating life. These things all contribute to the idea that their is more to these people that what is on the surface. The fact that one of the soldiers you kill could have started a family, and yet Ellie is completely unaffected by it, and more concerned about her pregnant girlfriend, speaks to how desensitised she is to violence, and how every individual in the game has convinced that the enemy are completely irredeemable monsters.
It feels quite ridiculous to criticise people for acting desperate and violent, in a world where a fungus has killed/infected over 60% of the global population. And in spite of that, there are STILL many thriving community’s living in relative peace.
Something tells me you would like Big Finish's "Survivors" audio series (if you haven't yet). It's a great pandemic series that focuses on people
try the original 1970s bbc programme, its fascinating how middle class the people who survive are and the bad guys are all working class.
@@JonSpink The 00’s reboot with Julie Graham was actually quite good though. Shame it was canned.
@@lewgallagher463 yes that was good too. The original is good for being bad really. There's a hilarious bit when one of the characters just shrugs in a house fire and that's the last you see of him. The reboots got some good characters in it it would have been interesting to see where they went with it with him sat on a plane at the end if i remember right.
I remember when they first started to advertise there new show on Fox and got excited to watch and would look forward to watching the new episode every week
I always wondered where all the bodies went.
That actually gets answered over the course of the show
Pat showed Mike where the bodies went
It’s actually explained and very smartly, there’s few cars on the street since it wasn’t like a zombie outbreak, everyone hid in their houses and most of them simply died in their own houses, the few thousands of bodies that died outside were taken into places like parking lots by the government
@@kodekYT Must have missed that
Still can't believe they canceled this show 😢
I watched the first episode and stopped there- It was a good short-movie.
While watching this, I was thinking about all the dead bodies.
That feels like an over simplification of TLOU but cool video
Usually in real life pandemics we just carried life on as normal such as the 2009-10 Swine Flu pandemic. I had no idea that Covid would shut down the world when I first heard about, since I thought it could only happen on Hollywood and not in reality! The Covid pandemic proved me wrong!
Just been diagnosed with Covid so this review cheered me up a fair bit
love this show, thanks
I loved this show and I've just started re-watching it.
Thanks for the video!
I named my dog Tandy after Tandy from this show
Very underrated show, Will Forte is underrated
Why is the naked couch wine-sipping so wholesome? Why does it hit like that?
Watched the first series when it came out (2016?). I'd like to rewatch it with this new perspective - what platform did you watch it on?
Its free on prime at the moment. Watched it when I was sick with COVID last month which was a trip
@@Stubagful just to add, that's prime in the UK. Prime in other countries may not have it (darn international licensing) I know the programs on Netflix change between countries so Prime may be similar.
We are currently watching on Hulu in the US.
Disney + in Europe has it
tbf ur comparing a zombie outbreak to the covid quarantine lol
Leeeewwwwwis.
Man we need season 5..
Such a shame it was cancelled at a pivotal moment of the show. I really liked the way they portrayed mental health/illness; without psychiatrists and patients relapsing due to lack of communication and no medication available, and of course new traumatic experiences... We need more exposure about the topic in media - great writers!
It's honestly quite weird to see you keep bringing up The Last of Us and comparing it to Last Man on Earth despite the fact that they're so incredibly different in tone. Of course a game about despair as the last remnants of humanity literally break down as they start being driven by their most basic emotions will not approach its setting the same way a comedy TV show where sewage is solved by shitting in a pool would. It's like complaining that encountering aliens in Star Wars isn't like encountering aliens in Arrival - like, yeah, it's not supposed to be.
But I think you’re also missing the point of the last of us first of all the last of us is to point out the opposite of Ali and Abby Abby who is the person who killed Joel becomes good but also the last of us is that 20 or 25 years later after the apocalypse so it’s basically saying we’ve built a society it didn’t work so now we’re trying to live another way
Still one of my favorite shows. Just sucked that they had to jump so many sharks.
I liked it but a lot of the humour fell flat for me personally. Still really great show tho.
I was annoyed by the humour "around" one of the most important characters, and two actors just felt like they couldn't act. I mean, they just felt like bad actors to me. One of them convinced me maybe once that I wasn't watching a person portraying a character. Two - in my opinion - bad actors out of really not that many was a bit much. Still really, really liked the show.
I think the biggest flaw of the show is that its really easy to lose people in the second half of season 1, where the show got grating. But after that I think it picks up a lot
@@SmartSmears Because of this I probably wouldnt really start recommending it to people, but damn I loved this series and I am so disappointed that I finished the last episodes today.
The show was pretty much only carried by a really good premise for me. The actual comedy was just like if you made the office except it wasn't funny.
I’m curious to hear your take on Station 11
There was a short lived sitcom in the 80’s called Not With a Bang which attempted simmilar but no one watched it
The show is funny until you realize this is how people would aactually react in situations like this
This and it also can be seen as "what it's like being unemployed/retired."
The premise is amazing, but it's like it's been written by a toddler, the dialogue and characters are very cartoony.
His is great- I now must watch this show it looks great
That's because most people are good.
oh wow, literally within a minute without notif
Stu I gotta disagree, you have and I mean YOU HAVE to watch station 11, thats accurate and its sweet, charming and dramatic and everything inbetween. That has the most accurate depiction of a fictional pandemic.
If you want a character driven video game that lasers in on human element rather than just survival action, those Telltale Walking Dead games are very good in that respect.
That guy might have been born after outbreak day to be fair, it was like 25 years ago.
Good to see the blanket I crocheted making an appearance at the end!
I bet Power Rangers RPM would get a similar reaction out of you.
the best part of the show was January Jones, She is one of the most beautiful ladies in hollywood.
Bear in mind that your idea of an “accurate” pandemic is completely subjective. Not everyone was able to afford to have a boring pandemic mate.
to be fair that's addressed in the video
so you killed people and defended your town and also kill pregnant ladies
It would vary from country to country and depend on your specidic circumstances but we all know Covid didn't devolve into people forming The Walking Dead or Mad Max style turf wars globally.
I feel the use of the last of us as an example is very outlandish simply because last man on earth and the last of us are VERY different stories one is about a virus that killed most the world and a very small group of people being the only ones left alive and the last of us is about a fungi infecting and turning people into zombies and people trying to survive with little resources after the destruction of civilization I see that their are similarities in both with pandemics and an apocalypse it’s just that both scenarios are vastly different from each other which just felt very distracting when watching this video
In real world, wild animals will be a problem
I hope the make new episode
This show ended, right before the real thing happened
someone other than me watched this show?????
I watched it when I was sick with COVID a few weeks ago. I've now watched it all the way through twice
@@Stubagful watched this when the last season was out. I remember the cliffhanger and then the show cancellation, I was so upset
@@BlazeInc Forte has recently said he’d do a season 5 at least. Not that it’ll happen but he used to say no way
I watched it every week when it came out. A true masterpiece and truly a Shawshank Redemption!
Great work. I'll catch all you gals later.
If I die from covid by tomorrow, I'll be happy
From this video you have zero knowledge of reality.
i almost didnt make it past the 1st season, the stupid acting of the guy ruins it for me. and it doesnt get better in other seasons, just becomes tolerable because i like the premise of the show.
My sister said she loved this show and the premise seemed interesting, but I stopped watching in season 1 (I think?) because Phil was so horrible. I tried to watching it again a second time and stopped around the same point.
Loved the first 2 seasons but aftef that ig became terrible. Hardly ever funny, super annoying and dragging on and super slow. Feels like entirely different writers/directors, ic that’s the case then that would sort of explain. Couldn’t help to binge thd first 2 seasons (it was that good) and struggling to watch the rest, bit of skipping helps a bit but it’s still hard.
very good show too bad it only has 4 seasons
This show went to shit after a couple of episodes.
Fr, my favorite season was season 1, mainly because we got introduced to the main characters and we actually got some story based around this world. I liked season 1 because I felt that the characters were actually doing things to improve the situation they’re in, and doing things that actually matter.
After that, the rest of the seasons felt like a totally different show because it felt like some cheap comedy skit that wasn’t even that funny and was more annoying than anything else. The characters also made stupid decisions that they would not have made in the first season.
I feel like this series could work if it was rebooted and had a better plot because I actually felt like something big was going to happen but then it ended up getting cancelled.
You downplaying the economy seems pretty stupid now.
Just tell the truth. It was a real stupid show.