Earth Abides. Yes, when everything finishes, when all the humans are dead, earth should abide. This does not seem like an interesting story at the beginning. The Earth is under attack of a virus and it becomes a pandemic. Our protagonist, a geologist is bitten by a snake in the wildlife while he is searching thorough rocks. He struggles with the poison of the snake bite for three or four weeks in a small cottage far away from the city. Finally, he wakes up as cured not dead, as the saying “What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger”. That’s what he lived. When he returns home, he finds everybody is dead at home, in the town and in the whole city except him. And the story begins.
Series: Earth Abides
Stars: Alexander Ludwig, Jessica Frances Dukes
Date: 2024, 1 season, 6 episodes
Writer: Geroge R. Stewart (of the novel)
Creator: Todd Komarnicki
Director: Stephen S. Campanelli (ve iki yönetmen daha)
Platform: MGM+
IMDb rating: 6,2 (3.5K)
The series are adapted from the novel of the same name. It’s written by George R. Stewart in 1949. With the classic common sense of science-fiction writers, it is possible to say that the author had foreseen the pandemic that started in 2019 and ravaged our world for three years.
The Earth abides but the humankind should abide too. The instinct that keeps all the living creatures alive is to reproduce and to breed so as to multiply the number of the herd they are living in. The story is about loneliness. About love. About hate. About courage. About fear. Survival. Death. Birth. Friendship. Love. Children. Enemies. Searching. Seeking. Drought. Danger. Hesitation. Frustration. Disgust. Anticipation. Strength. Endurance.
Of course I won’t tell you the whole story or I won’t give you any spoilers other than that: A man survives and all other people are dead. While telling a coming-age story, the six episodes of the series give us opportunity to live all the emotions above and observe the survivor humans to live all the emotions day after day and year after year.
In the lower right corner of the book cover, there is a sentence by American author Justin Cronin: "The godfather of modern apocalypse novel. Stately, observant and magnificently written.” Cronin has written a trilogy named "The Passage": The Passage-The Twelve-The City of Mirrors. First book of the trilogy is a 10-episoded series with the same name.
I wish you enjoy the series as I did.
B A L I K H A F I Z A / My Invented Memory 
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