Now Apocalypse

When I started watching this is I cringed hard and assumed it was trash but I take it back, it's actually weirdly excellent. TOTALLY worth watching as soon as you let go of your assumptions abt what it is. Yes the millennial affectations are irritating but that's the whole point.

If you're watching 'Now Apocalypse' with the hope of finding a truly well-written and intelligent series, then don't. This show isn't intended to win awards, awe audiences and win over masses... but that doesn't make it bad. The series is crafted like a very WTF fever dream of over-the-top millenial comedy and drama, pushing stereotypes to the limit and being oh-so-sexual at every chance it can get.

All in all, it's an edgy, sexual, odd show finished with a thick coating of bright paint and aesthetic directing, coloring and cinematography. It completely SHATTERS the norms of comedy television, and that's what makes it so unique. It's also brilliantly cast with Avan Jogia, Beau Mirchoff, Tyler Posey, and more television mainstays.

Overall, this isn't by any means a show that was written with the mindset of "this is an intelligent work of art". It was created to be fun, different, bizarre, and just over-the-top enough to make audiences say... WTF!!

"Now Apocalypse" is fun and sexy and young - and a good,30-minute diversion. It's kind of a better version of the disappointing and cumbersome "Here and Now" in that it involves some "is he or is he not psychic?" poppycock. But I find the characters all goofily likable, although clearly cast based on looks. Some of them seem like they are learning to act as they go. And Gregg Araki does not make easy roles: the tone needs to be just right, kind of self-conscious and arrogant and earnest. In other words...very young. The plot is insignificant: the show is all about Gregg Araki's style and the use of color, light, and young flesh. And how everyone looks (almost) naked. Very 1980s.

It's fun, and it's making fun of the millennial generation. If you're disgusted by it then that shows more about who you are than about the show.

Anyone my age (55) and older that dislikes this show needs to think back to their own 20s and remember how clueless they were. This show is like a beginner's guide to having (and what to aviod in) a sex life and/or relationship.

I'm impressed by what I've seen so far (I'm writing this while watching episode 4). Yes, the show appears to be simplistic and has a plot that is mostly beside the point, but I think it's important to embrace this simplicity if you are going to enjoy the show.

The show is predominantly about human sexual interactions, many of which are transactional in nature. Regardless of Gregg Araki's filmography, I would say this is more a millenial- rather than a gay-oriented show; "Queer as Folk" this is not. What's even better, this show is both old-school and Progressive with a capital "P" at the same time. Old school because the situations these characters find themselves in have been played out repeatedly for ages. Progressive in that gender stereotypes are out the window, for instance the most masculine character in the show is also the most emotionally vulnerable.

Hopefully this show will continue to explore a broad gamut of the human emotional spectrum.