Fallout TV, an adaptation of the award-winning gaming series, is now available on Amazon Prime Video.
Based on the post-apocalyptic franchise, the Jonathan Nolan-directed show follows Lucy (Ella Purnell), a Vault 33 inmate, as she is dragged into the radioactive wastes of Los Angeles when her father Hank (Kyle MacLachlan) is abducted.
During her quest, she encounters Brotherhood of Steel squire Maximus (Aaron Moten) and The Ghoul (Walton Goggins), a bounty hunter and gunslinger who lived before the Great War. Their destinies meet owing to Wilzig (Michael Emerson), an Enclave member with a sinister secret.
The highly anticipated eight-episode series has proven popular with fans, rocketing to number one on the streaming site since its debut on Thursday (April 11).
If you’ve gotten beyond the wild ghouls, puppy incinerators, radroaches, and everything else the Wasteland has to offer, you’ll be ready for your next binge-watch.
And we have nine programmes available on Prime, Netflix, Disney Plus, and other platforms that depict mankind surviving the apocalypse in both inventive and horrific ways.
You, Me, And The Apocalypse
The apocalypse begins with this hit comedy, which airs on and Sky.
In You, Me, and the Apocalypse, we follow a varied mix of seemingly unconnected characters as they find that humanity’s end is close, thanks to a comet on a collision path with Earth.
Among them are estranged twin brothers Jamie Winton and Ariel Conroy (Matthew Baynton), a chain-smoking Vatican priest (Rob Lowe), and even a maximum-security prisoner (Jenna Fischer), all of whom deal with their imminent demise in very different ways.
Where to watch: and Sky
The Purge
A TV adaption of The Purge, based on the blockbuster horror film series, premiered in 2018 – and while it isn’t precisely post-apocalyptic, it seems just as horrible.
The programme, like the film series, is set in an alternate dystopian United States where all crimes, including vandalism, theft, arson, and murder, are legalised for 12 hours once a year in order to reduce crime rates.
The first season follows numerous people as their lives cross on Purge Night in 2027, while the second season takes place after the annual Purge Night in 2036, as a group investigates conspiracies from that night before the next Purge arrives.
Where to watch: Available to buy on Amazon Prime Video, Sky, Apple TV, the Google Play Store, and Microsoft Store
The 100
The 100, like Fallout, is an Amazon Prime Video programme about mankind rebuilding after nuclear destruction.
Set 97 years after a nuclear disaster wipes out the majority of mankind on Earth, a group of individuals from a space station return to the planet as life support systems fail.
When they arrive, they realise that not all humans were murdered, and they must learn to coexist with the ‘Grounders’ in their civilization.
Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video
Chernobyl
Okay, so this isn’t quite an apocalyptic programme, but it does deal with a nuclear calamity, and the fact that it’s based on a true occurrence makes it much more terrifying.
Chernobyl, released in 2019, relates the true account of the 1986 Chernobyl accident, which witnessed the massive explosion of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s No. 4 reactor near the city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine.
More than 100,000 people were evacuated from impacted locations, with the radioactive leak estimated to be ten times greater than the nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima.
Where to watch: and Sky
Dead Set
With the revival of Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother, fans can only hope for the return of Dead Set.
Set in a fictitious Big Brother season, the show follows a zombie outbreak that traps the housemates and production workers within the Big Brother House.
The five-episode series, created by Black Mirror mastermind Charlie Brooker, also featured cameos from host Davina McCall and former contestants Helen Adams, Paul “Bubble” Ferguson, Eugene Sully, Kinga Karolczak, Makosi Musambasi, Saskia Howard-Clarke, Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace, Imogen Thomas, Brian Belo, and Ziggy Lichman.
Where to watch: Netflix
The Stand
In 2021, Alexander Skarsgard, Amber Heard, Owen Teague, and Katherine McNamara will feature in a television series based on Stephen King’s best-selling novel The Stand.
Even worse, following the COVID-19 epidemic, The Stand depicts a plague killing the majority of the population in one single swoop.
The few survivors remaining struggle to save each other and repopulate the world, forming organisations with opposing views on how the new civilization should run.
Where to watch: Play on Amazon Prime Video and Lionsgate Plus
War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells horrified the world with the publication of his sci-fi novel The War of the Worlds, before Orson Welles upset a whole new generation with his radio play, which many people thought to be true.
In 2019, Gabriel Byrne and Daisy Edgar-Jones starred in a television adaptation of the horrific alien invasion thriller.
The new version of the traditional story takes place between Britain and France when scientists discover a communication from another star, and intelligent extraterrestrial species quickly make contact with Earth. However, within days, the vast majority of humanity is extinct.
Where to watch: Disney Plus
Black Summer
The Walking Dead revived our dread of the zombie apocalypse genre, and a flurry of programmes followed in its footsteps.
Following the popularity of Z Nation, the spin-off series Black Summer was published in 2019. It follows Rose (Jaime King) who is separated from her daughter, Anna (Zoe Marlett), during the zombie apocalypse.
She goes on a perilous trip to find her, banding together with a tiny community of refugees in North America to survive.
Where to watch: Netflix
The Last Of Us
In terms of video game adaptations, The Last of Us is one of the most successful and highly praised.
The show, starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, follows lead characters Joel (Pascal) and Ellie (Ramsey) in a world where the Cordyceps infection, which in real life can be harmful to insects, has infiltrated the human population, causing widespread devastation and destruction.
However, Ellie appears to be immune to the parasitic fungus sickness, so Joel is entrusted with sneaking her across the United States in the hopes that she may be the key to developing a cure.
Where to watch: and Sky
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