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This must be a fantasy show, where police procedure and policies don't exist. So many of the things that are allowed to happen in this show to move the plot along would NEVER happen in a real police precinct and I'm not even a cop, I'm just a human being who knows that these are not cops, these are some kind of fantastical law enforcement action heroes, not anywhere NEAR reality. The faux-pas are so terrible that it's rendering the show unwatchable.

The example that made me turn the show off came in the fourth episode: A cop gets fired ON THE SPOT for filling out paperwork incorrectly. What the writers of this book/movie are saying in this scene is that POLICE UNIONS DON'T EXIST? Axing that particular cop must have been needed to further the plot and they could not come up with a realistic way to make that happen, so they just made something up because we're all big dumb idiots and we won't notice.

Something as ridiculous as what I just described happens CONSTANTLY in this show. I've never read the books, but I doubt the author/showrunner has ever read anything about policing in HIS life either, so we're even.

This movie is over two hours of pre-apocalyose build-up, and then it just ends. It's as if the film got cut at the 3/4 mark of the movie. Very disheartening to watch a two hour movie that doesn't have an ending. It's a decent movie, Julia is overacting a bit though, her character gets pretty tiresome pretty quickly. I don't think she was the right actor for the role, but Ethan Hawke was great.

Oh yeah, and because the movie "ends" so abruptly, there are a ton of unanswered questions. Wtf is with the deer? They're exactly like the Polar Bear from Lost. Just there because someone has a CGI budget and couldn't spend it fast enough. Smh.

If you like thorough character development in your stories and very little else, then this is the show for you. Watch rich people argue about rich people problems in front of a rich Italian backdrop for seven-point-nine straight episodes then don't blink because the entirety of the plot and revolution happens in the last thirty seconds of the last episode. You could LITERALLY just watch the last episode and know what the entire show was about because it's so damn repetitive. I only gave this show a watch because of all the buzz, but I wish I had the hours back. Aubrey Plaza is great as always but not worth watching this show for.