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- 2019
- TV-MA
- Starz
- 2019
- TV-MA
- Starz
Summary Ulysses (Avan Jogia) and his friends aspiring actress Carly (Kelli Berglund), aspiring screenwriter Ford (Beau Mirchoff) and French astrobiological theorist Severine (Roxane Mesquida) juggle life, relationships and working in Los Angeles in this coming-of-age comedy created by Gregg Araki.
Created By: Gregg Araki
- 2019
- TV-MA
- Starz
- 2019
- TV-MA
- Starz
Now Apocalypse
Season 1 Premiere: Mar 10, 2019
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5.7
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Summary Ulysses (Avan Jogia) and his friends aspiring actress Carly (Kelli Berglund), aspiring screenwriter Ford (Beau Mirchoff) and French astrobiological theorist Severine (Roxane Mesquida) juggle life, relationships and working in Los Angeles in this coming-of-age comedy created by Gregg Araki.
Created By: Gregg Araki
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Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
64
58% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
42% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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First and foremost, this is a show in which dildo injuries are a constant menace (and, possibly, an allusion to the obsessions of earlier generations) and virtually any visit to a friend's home is likely to interrupt sweaty, noisy rutting. (Lest you accuse me of hyperbole: twice in the first three minutes of the pilot.)
With its casual queerness, its tinfoil-hat doomsayers and its vague but pervasive mood of foreboding, Now Apocalypse fun-house-mirrors a world that has finally caught up to Araki. If ever there was a time for free-loving youths to party through their panic, then surely that moment is now.
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Based on 42 User Ratings
5.7
52% Positive
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 42 User Ratings
5.7
52% Positive
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
14% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
33% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
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Now Apocalypse is bizarre and will certainly be off-putting to many. For others, surely a smaller audience, there’s some titillating fun to be had in this guilty pleasure’s kinky weirdness.
Now Apocalypse is equally as ambitious [as Kaboom], but not nearly as well executed. Where Araki and Sciortino do succeed, in addition to making sly, poignant commentary about power and relationships, is in subverting expectations, first in giving viewers a queer story that’s a bit fraught, but mostly fun.
Endearingly peculiar and energetic.
Now Apocalypse, debuting March 10 on Starz after a Jan. 29 premiere at Sundance, pushes its tone of oddity to what will likely be the limits of many viewers’ patience, bringing several amiable performances to bear on a story that feels like a warmed-over rehash of sharper material.
Araki’s libertines are fun to follow as they romp and revolve, but what happens to them seems a little too shallow, too prolonged and too low-stakes.
Production Company:
- Starz
Initial Release Date: Mar 10, 2019
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
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