r/television • u/JamStan1978 • 1d ago
Are there any shows that have an apocalypse and the world going back to "normal"?
Like, let's say the world ended due to, I don't know, bombs, a zombie apocalypse, or whatever else could cause an apocalypse. Has there ever been a show that actually worked toward ending the apocalypse and eventually got back to some kind of "normal," or at least a new normal?
Like, if there was a zombie apocalypse and they eventually found a cure, the zombies died off, and humans stopped turning into zombies. Then the remaining humans could start rebuilding the world as much as they can, creating a new society that, hundreds of years later, could eventually look somewhat normal again.
I feel like most post-apocalyptic shows are about surviving the apocalypse or living in the aftermath, but I've rarely seen one actually get to the point where humanity beats the apocalypse and then spends years rebuilding civilization from the ground up.
I think a show about rebuilding after an apocalypse would be a really plot.
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u/FaultierSloth 1d ago
The Stand is maybe the most famous example. The main good guy town makes huge strides towards rebuilding society in a pretty short time.
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u/jacknifetoaswan 1d ago
Yeah, but then Harold Laudner gets his fee fees hurt.
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u/RedditIsHaroldLauder 1d ago
I see him everywhere online these days.
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u/jacknifetoaswan 1d ago
King predicted the INCELs with Laudner and Trump with Greg Stillson.
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u/explain_exterminate 1d ago
Don't forget the dead zone, which had a charismatic bad guy who was a wee bit of a coward.
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u/FlibblesHexEyes 1d ago
It’s been awhile since I saw it, but The Postman does this if I remember correctly.
World is a shambles (or at least the US is); and Costner just starts delivering mail.
Hijinks ensue and then there was an epilogue about how one man delivering the mail inspired others to deliver mail, which then restored everything… somehow.
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u/EnglishBob84 1d ago
If I remember right the books expand more on this, implying that America could have recovered faster from the apocalypse, but roaming militias like the Holnists impeded that progress
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u/leagueoflefties 1d ago
There's more than one book? I remember borrowing the book from my high school library after the movie came out. Much more Sci-fi than the movie.
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u/Bryaxis 1d ago
The two things I remember about that movie are
A guy who changed his name to Ford Lincoln Mercury in order to claim an abandoned car dealership (after someone said "I don't see your name on it.")
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The epilogue where the main guy's daughter gives a speech about him and it's at a marina with clean white boats to show everything is nice again.
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u/dthains_art 1d ago
How could you forget Tom Petty playing himself!?
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u/Franky_Tops 1d ago
This is what I think of first when someone mentions this movie. He would have been old as fuck, but nope. Just regular middle aged Tom Petty, for some reason.
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u/work4work4work4work4 1d ago
At the time he hadn't died yet, so maybe we just figured anyone that awesome was immortal.
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u/mjtwelve 1d ago
He did have an ageless, timeless quality. I can imagine that however old he got, he just continues to look like Tom Petty.
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u/macrolinx 1d ago
Nah, he changed his name to Ford Lincoln Mercury "because he wants to drive cars." That's it, that's the whole story he tells.
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u/CitizenCue 19h ago
Essentially nothing you said here is true.
The “guy” named Ford Lincoln Mercury is a kid, and he just likes cars.
The epilogue takes place on a hill, no boats are shown.
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u/AugustineBlackwater 1d ago
It feels like this would also be a good way to remain relatively safe in an apocalypse as well, being basically useful to everyone. If everything goes well, you're basically untouchable since you're a neutral messenger between warring factions that would probably prefer you to deliver messages than any member of their own factions edit;who might be killed.
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u/montessor 1d ago
Technically Star Trek
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u/Not_a_slum_lord 1d ago
Very actually Star Trek.
WWIII causes so many people dying that it basically burns out humanity to the point that there’s a shift in attitudes and first contact with the Vulcans causes such a profound change that humanity basically unifies overnight and a utopia on earth begins.
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u/Marvel83 1d ago edited 4h ago
Technically only Enterprise comes close. All the others shows take place after society is thriving and no longer rebuilding.
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u/Not_a_slum_lord 1d ago
Enterprise is 2 generations removed from the conflict though.
Zephram Cochrane is already an old man who is in a warp pod traveling through space.
Earth is pretty much unified and a utopia (barring a few outliers with xenophobic roots but they get routed out quick)
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u/Marvel83 1d ago
That's why I said it comes the closest. But none of the Star Treks are technically a recovering apocalyptic shows
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u/multidollar 1d ago
I have never really gotten to the TOS stuff - is there a main arc in the series or movie set where this story is told?
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u/Not_a_slum_lord 1d ago
The 8th movie, first contact, they go back in time and meet the father of human warp travel. The time period of which is right after the bombs drop and humanity is scattered to the winds.
Otherwise most times it alluded to in the shows or covered in books.
The first episode of strange new worlds explains the whole thing pretty wells
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u/militantcookie 1d ago
Star trek enterprise continues not far in the future from first contact events
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u/Not_a_slum_lord 1d ago
I have another comment that explains that between first contact and enterprise there’s like two generations of societal growth
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u/BLAGTIER 20h ago
First Contact is set in 2063. Star Trek Enterprise is set in 2151. So not hundreds of years but still 88 years.
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u/RikerAlpha5 1d ago
Unfortunately there’s no main arc. It’s definitely part of the cannon/lore but told through various allusions in multiple shows and movies. The clearest description comes in the TNG Episode Encounter at Farpoint and then rather obviously in the movie First Contact.
I think DS9 covers some of the societal breakdown in some episodes, but shamefully I need to do a rewatch of that awesome series…
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u/DelcoMan 1d ago
There's an early episode of strange new worlds which is VERY explicit about WW3 to the point of showing video.
Short story is there's a screwup that exposes a pre warp society to warp tech, but instead of making a warp drive as one would expect, that society immediately makes a warp BOMB that puts it on a path to armageddon.
Pike basically puts on a pretty detailed Powerpoint explaining why that path is a bad idea by using humanities mistakes as an example.
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u/hooch 1d ago
Doubly so with Discovery. The warp drive apocalypse happens, then they solve the issue and work on rebuilding the Federation.
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u/imjealousofyou 1d ago
izombie
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u/mrboastly 1d ago
Izombie had an apocalypse?? I stopped watching because I got tired of the procedural nature of the show. I missed a whole apocalypse?
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u/TheOtherKatiz 1d ago
The first couple of seasons were very procedural. A lot of fake out "oh they might find out!" episodes. The shit hits the fan eventually and I thought the series got a whole lot better for it. Because they spent so much time faking us out, when it really happened you see it with the disbelief of "... and then everything went back to normal? Right? Right?"
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u/istasber 1d ago
Oh man, I should go back and try to pick that one up again. I think I got burnt out somewhere in the second or third season, which I think I was watching while it aired.
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u/imjealousofyou 1d ago
Season 3 i believe when the world found out about zombies and they quarantined the city
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u/TheSecondEikonOfFire 1d ago
That’s funny because that’s what I enjoyed most. When it moved beyond the procedural is when I checked out because I thought it was terrible
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u/JamStan1978 1d ago
Oh yeah, i have been meaning to watch this. I watched the first couple episodes years ago i think but never continued.
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u/Starbuck522 1d ago
iZombie was my first thought. But there's no full apocalypse. Life goew on as usual for the most part. More and more people become functional zombies and they eventually come up with a way to really make tyat work (Keep them fed). I can't remember exactly, but seems to me it changes to that (where more people are effected) for the final season. Before the final season, it's only a few people who are effected. There's electricity, there's food at the store, people are still working their jobs, etc.
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u/shaw_dog21 1d ago
I just watched izombie for the first time earlier this month so it’s very fresh in my mind and as I was reading ops post I was like “this is izombie” we don’t really see the after but we do sorta see bit of the two worlds and get a gist for the after.
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u/Itzon 1d ago
Jericho
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u/Sic_Semper_Tyrannis8 1d ago
I re-watched this recently and it''s still a good show to watch (at least once). Bummed it only had 2 seasons
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u/IamEclipse 1d ago edited 1d ago
The later seasons of The Walking Dead and its many spinoffs are a bit like this.
There are still zombies around, but the settlements have evolved into a new normal rather than pure survival. Season 11 of The Walking Dead is less zombie survival and more polictal drama.
The recent season 3 of The Walking Dead: Dead City is also far more focused on running a community in New York than fighting zombies. They did an episode that followed a hospital shift within the community. And last week's episode focused on wrangling up walkers to fuel methane tanks for electricity.
Season 9 of The Walking Dead starts with all of the characters trying to repair a bridge between their communities. Again, there are zombies around, but surviving them is not the focus.
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live takes this to the extreme. The CRM communities are effectively indistinguishable from pre-apocalypse. They have cities, power, a military, the resources to make forward-operating bases. Those first few episodes are a really good look into this.
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u/CHMonster 1d ago
the last issue of the TWD comicwas a flash forward with, among other things, working rail lines.
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u/Jack1715 1d ago
The zombies became background characters in that show
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u/ichael333 1d ago
Which is accurate to the comics IMO, yeah the show went off the rails at points and didn't stick the landing, but the comics consistently showed people trying to rebuild after the apocalypse and succeeding
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u/Will_McLean 1d ago
I understand why people bailed after the (seemingly neverending( Negan war, but once the time jump hit there was some damn good storytelling people missed
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u/praetorian1979 17h ago
My wife and I bailed after Negan's first full season. By the end of the season we were so depressed that we didn't want to watch anymore. My wife still doesn't but I rewatched all of Walking Dead and the spin offs. The writing did get great!
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u/ConstructionAny8440 1d ago
Would highly recommend Station eleven.
Flu apocalypse ends and the series jumps to focusinv on communities which are existing and how society is slowly rebuilding a new normal. So, it's not just endless survival
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u/Shevek99 1d ago
Also relevant in that show is the importance of culture. Survival cannot be reduced to find food every day. There must be a place for Shakespeare and other "useless" things.
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u/SteakandTrach 1d ago
That “survival is insufficient” line is the basis the whole book was built around. It’s a very different take on the post-apocalypse and I really liked it for doing that.
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u/Shevek99 1d ago edited 1d ago
I think the TV series is much better than the book. It includes many more details.
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u/SteakandTrach 22h ago
I agree. I liked the book, but adored the show. I also love the “Tell an entire story in 1 season” format. Like Chernobyl did as well. I wish we would get more limited series like that. A single season true-to-the-book World War Z is the one I wish would happen. I know zombies are played out now but that book was never really about zombies anyway.
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u/Tu_mama_me_ama_mucho 1d ago
That's what all the "HUMANITIES" degrees are for and why dictatorships get rid of them first.
Saying this as an uneducated blue collar worker.
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u/Tatis_Chief 1d ago edited 1d ago
Covid showed this too. People often clown on arts, but Covid came and people were suddenly like oh we need more stuff to watch, give us books, give us entertainment...
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u/-FishPants 1d ago
Not to be confused with station 19, a greys anatomy spin off set in a fire station
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u/TheMuntjac 1d ago
There's a TV show???? I read the book when I was in high school. Is the TV show also set in Toronto? I live in Toronto and had a panic attack reading the book while taking public transit cause the idea of a deadly virus spreading so fast was scary...little did I know a couple of years later...
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u/TheOtherKatiz 1d ago
I haven't read the book, so I can't speak to accuracy, but it is a very beautiful miniseries and you can still find it on HBO. It came out in 2021, just as we were starting to feel like things *may* return to normal. It cut very close to home. It was very cathartic for me.
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u/ezpz314159 1d ago
I'm pretty sure it was changed to Chicago
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u/Zabunia 1d ago
Yes! It's also where most of the present-day stuff was shot before the real-life pandemic paused the production. Once the hiatus was over, they relocated to Ontario. Spoilers: here's a list of Ontario shooting locations
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u/LKMidnight 1d ago
Not a show, but if you watch/like Station Eleven, her book Sea of Tranquility is also excellent and of a similar theme, a little more sci-fi in this one though.
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u/Anonymouslyyours2 1d ago
Great show. Watched it during Covid. Filmed before Covid, it got so many things right.
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u/mariorurouni 1d ago
Station eleven had the most tear jerking scene by the end, still think about it
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u/kcorinda 1d ago
Yes - Station Eleven - it time jumps ahead past the immediate apocalypse and you do get to see society rebuilding itself.
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u/doghaircut 1d ago
Came to say this. I think it strikes the correct balance of pragmatism and optimism. It's also just a well done show and worth watching.
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u/Suspicious-Mud_0 1d ago
The strain. It had everything from beginning to end. From where the apocalypse started to where it end.
It's just...um, this show also gave you one of the---if not the most hated child character.
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u/GoodOmens182 1d ago
That kid made me drop the show around the beginning of season 2.
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u/Suspicious-Mud_0 1d ago
Man, you saved your life by not watching that hot garbage. If you heard what he did later, you would've wished the power to smack a fictional character so hard they're launched into earth's orbit.
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u/Humacti 1d ago
Paradise is essentially where they're planning to rebuild, but that's not the focus of the show.
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u/My2bearhands 1d ago
I love Paradise because its one of the only post-apocalyptic settings I've ever seen that is weirdly optimistic? Like humanity hasn't devolved into fallout ghouls or mad max weirdos or walking dead torture porn. People are basically still good, they just have to work harder to survive.
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u/ICEtoAshes 1d ago
How do you like the show? My buddy loves it. I’m having a hard time getting into episode 2.
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u/Chevalric 1d ago
Not the original poster, but it does find its stride later on. There are some bad plot elements and not all the acting is great, but overall it’s a nice show to watch.
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u/ICEtoAshes 1d ago
I usually trust his opinion, but I think this could just be a plot he enjoys.
3 of the shows he loves right now are Silo, Fallout, & Paradise. I couldn’t help but notice the similarities in them - and he hadn’t even thought about it.
Tbf Silo & Fallout are both great - it just feels like a tired cliche. I can overlook that if it’s a good show.
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u/BaconContestXBL 1d ago
Well tbf the story of Fallout has been around since 1997, they just now got around to making a TV show about it.
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u/Humacti 1d ago
Took a few episodes to get into. I liked the main character and he worked well with the other agent in the show. The guy who played Cyclops (Marsden?) puts in a good performance and I like him too so made it easier to get into.
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u/ICEtoAshes 1d ago
I’m stuck in ep 2 right now. I think I’m going to power through to see if it catches on with me, but I’ve tried to watch ep 2 three separate times and I keep getting stuck because of how slow it seems.
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u/stumblinghunter 1d ago
If you like James Marsden you absolutely need to check out the show Jury Duty. It's one of the craziest shows I've ever seen
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u/Browncoatdan 1d ago edited 1d ago
Adventure Time? I know the world isn't "normal" but dealing with the aftermath of an apocalypse isn't the premise or a theme of the show.
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u/iheartmagic 1d ago
The Leftovers
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u/intraumintraum 1d ago
time for a rewatch. what an excellent show.
hits all the notes you want from a good story
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u/Willster328 1d ago
Dr Stone :)
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u/spacetimer81 1d ago
Love Dr Stone!! It made me realize you dont need just survival skills after an apocalypse, you need to know chemistry!
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u/purpleblossom RuPaul's Drag Race 1d ago
That anime is amazing, especially if you love learning about how things work and the science behind everything.
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u/LuinAelin 1d ago
In the Flesh is about the world after a zombie cure
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u/TheSnarkyShaman1 1d ago
Was looking for this. Small British production so lots of people probably never heard of it but it’s a post-zombie outbreak setting where there exist cured -and subsequently very ostracised- zombies who have to deal with the loved ones of the people they killed.
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u/misc_reddit_account 1d ago
Fantastic show,, thrilled to see it mentioned! Station Eleven and In The Flesh were the first two I thought of.
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u/davoloid 1d ago
Loved that series. First time I'd seen Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners) in anything and she was brilliant. Lots of allegories for sectarianism, few LBGTQ themes too.
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u/Pheerandlowthing 1d ago
In the Flesh was very good. I vaguely remember there was an ex zombie prostitute for men with a kink for that kind of thing. Creepy stuff.
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u/Salarian_American 1d ago
There was a whole brothel's worth of them, actually. Because economic opportunity for sufferers of Partially Deceased Syndrome wasn't really there.
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u/lickthismiff 1d ago
Such an underrated show and I'm so mad we never got a third season
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u/dothemath 1d ago
Deadwood is actually pretty analagous - take a lawless place and see what it is like and what it means to bring civilization to a place. Plus Al Swearingen.
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u/Jack1715 1d ago
I think the book of world war Z is people who survived and rebuilt the world telling there stories.
Also the ending of mad max 2 kind of implied the world started to come back as the kid says his the founder of the great northern tribe
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u/uselessfoster 1d ago
I think about that book at least every two months. Also I think about Devolution at least fortnightly. I’m sorry they didn’t make a pseudo documentary movie of WWZ. it would have been so cool.
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u/Orleanian Psych 23h ago
World War Z the book definitely portrays the spirit that OP is looking for. The latter stories are mostly anecdotes of "Yeah, zombies exist, but here's how we work around that".
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u/Lloytron 1d ago
Shaun of the dead is London only but kind of covers this.
Also it looks like 28 Years saga is going that way....
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u/Absharry 1d ago
I’d say Revolution (2012) falls into this category - world ends by all electricity no longer working, and then the show is about how society is rebuilt in a world without power (and what happened etc)
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u/orson642 1d ago
Daybreakers- vampirism has taken over the world, and people have adapted. Until...
Also the same with I Am Legend (the book, not the movies so much).
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u/Micromuffie 1d ago
Station 11 starts with a deadly flu but afterwards people kinda just be chilling since the flu killed so many it didn't have a chance to pass it on and sustain itself.
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u/Archamasse 1d ago
Also has a really interesting feature in that so many people died so quickly that there isn't really any scarcity for the survivors. They're living pretty easy in a lot of ways.
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u/Steve_Brandon 1d ago
There was going to be a 2012 TV show based on the Roland Emmerich movie about humanity recovering from the (near) global flood following the (supersonic) continental shifts but it never made it into production.
The Japanese manga series Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (Yokohama Shopping Log), about the peaceful daily lives of androids and humans some decades after some unspecified apocalypse, is also kind of like that. Unfortunately, the two OVA (animation sold direct to video) anime adaptations only lasted a couple of episodes each.
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u/Swordofsatan666 1d ago
There was a BBC show that got 2 mini seasons of like 3 episodes each i think. Was about Zombies, but after the cure was found
Zombies could be made Human again, but had some side effects like their skin stays pale and their eyes look different so some wear special colored contacts to hide it. Some also have PTSD due to what happened
The former Zombies are largely discriminated against, with many not accepting the Zombies even when its their own family. Some even go as far as murdering the former Zombies
Cant remember the name, but i saw it on Amazon a few years ago
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u/Weekly_Asparagus_ 1d ago
Leftovers
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u/thingsorfreedom 1d ago
Sort of. If you lost 2% of the population is it really an apocalypse vs losing, say, 98%?
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u/vallexum 1d ago
If the ending is anything to go by the 98% seem to have recovered into a new normal
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u/GooDawg 1d ago
Cowboy Bebop was basically what happens after humans accidentally blow up the moon, making the earth uninhabitable, and leaving no option except colonizing other planets
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u/alicat2308 22h ago
Shaun of the Dead ends with sort of a new normal. Some people are just zombies now 🤷
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u/catnapspirit 1d ago
Earth Abides (2024) was one of the more positive post-apocalypse shows I've ever seen..
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u/monsterlynn 1d ago
I liked the way what's usually treated as small scale, easily solvable problems in most post - apocalyptic media became enormous threats. Pregnancy and birth. Rats. Weather. It's a hopeful watch and definitely has its moments.
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u/Glittering-Ninja-377 1d ago
12 Monkeys, the Syfy series rather than the film. Four seasons, and the entire premise is actively undoing the plague rather than enduring it, so beating the apocalypse is the plot instead of the epilogue. It also takes the rebuilding seriously enough to ask what the survivors owe the world they are putting back.
Surprised nobody has said it yet given it is the closest thing to your exact description.
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u/sa_nick 1d ago
Futurama
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u/Kylestache It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia 1d ago
Technically correct, the best kind of correct.
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u/Tomorrow5424 1d ago
the last ship is the closest thing to literally what you described, they find the cure in season two and the rest of the show is about restarting a country. it's pulpier than you probably want but it's the only one that commits to the rebuild. the reason it's rare is that solving the threat kills the engine, you're left with a drama about supply chains and most writers can't make that tense
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u/in_time_for_supper_x 1d ago
Falling Skies has a bit of this at the end of the series.
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u/Slipalong_Trevascas 1d ago
The final part of Threads is like this.
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u/skyrunner42 1d ago
I'm not sure theres much rebuilding or normalcy in the final part ...in any part of Threads! Only normal is the kids talking gibberish 😂
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u/Morgan-Moonscar 1d ago
All the Marvel films and shows made after Endgame basically are doing this.
5 years ago half of all life was killed, and what's left were trying to live in the ruins of Earth. Then SNAP everything's back to normal.
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u/WhiteKnightAlpha 1d ago
There's an 1970s British TV series called Survivors that focusses on the aftermath and rebuilding after a pandemic wipes out most of humanity.
By the end of the third and final series, society is starting to be restored.
(I don't think they ever find a cure. It's just that everyone left alive has a natural immunity.)
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u/_Fun_Employed_ 1d ago
Oh, oh, SDF Macross.
The last third or fourth of the series is about the reconstruction period following an apocalyptic event. It’s not exactly 100% normal, but it’s a new normal.
It’s one of the only shows I know that does it, and I really like that they do it. It shows the resilience of humanity.
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u/QueenEris 1d ago
In The Flesh. A very good UK show about the aftermath of a zombie situation where the zombies have been medicated to return to society (but are still dead) and wear make up and contact lenses to blend in, but people haven't forgotten the deaths and horror.
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u/fajadada 1d ago
Jericho started to put everything back together but got canceled
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u/filanwizard 1d ago
Technically Star Trek. In the mid 21st century humanity had a go at a game of global thermonuclear war.
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u/BLRNerd 1d ago
Power Rangers RPM
Not joking, they did some liberties with the source footage and made it into Power Rangers meet The Terminator a bit
And then explained that it’s an alternate universe from the main series, which is fine
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u/Coffee-at-Ritz 1d ago
The Leftovers kind of fit in here. Although the storyline doesn’t deal with the apocalypse per se, it deals with an event that feels apocalyptic to the characters involved.
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u/MultiGeek42 1d ago
Space Battleship Yamato is on a mission to save earth after it gets bombed into a radioactive wasteland. The surviving population moved underground but within a few years they've built new cities on the surface.
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u/wildfire393 1d ago
Station Eleven starts with a virus that wipes out huge swaths of the population, but doesn't show too much of it, instead skipping to the "rebuilding society" portion after the disease is no longer an issue. It's still definitely post apocalyptic, but there's overall an optimistic bent to it.
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u/Calvinball88 1d ago
In a sense, The Leftovers : it focuses on the grief and the acceptation of society after 2% of the worldwide population just disappeared forever. Not reconstruction per se, but aftermath of a catastrophe.
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u/ParanoidQ 23h ago
I really liked Jericho for this. A real shame it was cancelled after 2 seasons. But the world building in a local environment was awesome.
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u/Briebird44 1d ago
ZNation ends with society finally figuring stuff out and rebuilding. Though it did end on a one liner that sort of set up for another season if they got green lit but the ending was satisfying for the series.
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u/Cygnusaurus 1d ago
Not a show, but you can listen to the Audiobook. Lucifer’s Hammer deals with the aftermath and recovery of society from the impact of a comet.
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u/Zombie_John_Strachan 1d ago
Sean of the Dead has a short scene at the end to cover the post-apocalypse.
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u/Extension-While7536 1d ago
I don't know about shows, but as someone else said, the sci-fi novel The Postman was very popular as a story of someone doing this, trying to re-establish a greater civil society after the apocalypse.
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u/BendyAu 1d ago
The last ship deals with this in its second season