Now Apocalypse: Season 1

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Now Apocalypse: Life Is Insane

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Starz | Season Premiere Date: March 10, 2019

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.

Creator: Gregg Araki

Genre(s): Comedy

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Judy Berman

Mar 8, 2019

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. Read full review

Collider Haleigh Foutch

Mar 8, 2019

Now Apocalypse is best when it’s fun and breezy (and yes, very very sexy), though it doesn’t cut as deep or feel as consistent as some of Araki’s most enduring films, it’s also a lighter, easier watch than some of his more provocative outings. Read full review

Glenn Garvin

Mar 21, 2019

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.) Read full review

Danette Chavez

Mar 8, 2019

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. Read full review

Alan Sepinwall

Mar 5, 2019

Endearingly peculiar and energetic. Read full review

Matt Zoller Seitz

Mar 4, 2019

It often falls prey to the same problems that have undermined other series by filmmakers who spent decades working in self-contained theatrical features, and either don’t get that serialized TV is structurally a different animal, or else know and don’t really care. But there’s so much originality and audacity on display that even when the series isn’t working, it’s working. If it feels like it might be attuned to your vibe, and if you can stick with it long enough to get over whatever you expected it to be, it could grow on you. Read full review

Hank Stuever

Mar 7, 2019

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. Read full review

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vonvagabond

Mar 25, 2019

It's fun, vibrant, and quirky; it's not going to win any awards for intellectual content, but there is something super endearing about the series.

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cool-cat

Apr 15, 2019

This show is F.U.N. I have to say there's room for improvement, but overall I was hooked and CAN'T wait to see what's next to come!

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JeBjBo

Jan 3, 2023

A sympathetic cast and lots of steamy sex makes this fun portrayal of struggling young actors in Los Angeles an entertaining watch, but nothing more.

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jzathajenius

Mar 19, 2019

Ill be honest, I couldn't even make it through the first episode. Its bad. With so much great TV out at the moment, do not waste your time on this.

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write_by-you

Mar 28, 2019

Described as coming of age comedy, wrong the actors were so bad the woman playing Sev is forty it meant coming of middle age. No comedy also described as sexy, wrong the worst sex scenes I have ever seen. the apocalypse part was a gay raping alien and even his part was minuscule. I cringedDescribed as coming of age comedy, wrong the actors were so bad the woman playing Sev is forty it meant coming of middle age. No comedy also described as sexy, wrong the worst sex scenes I have ever seen. the apocalypse part was a gay raping alien and even his part was minuscule. I cringed at it, typical Greg Araki he shot himself in the foot with this every one to do with this crap really lost all credibility, and Beau Mirchoff how many times is he going to play the sex-starved hunk grizzling over the unattractive girl no wonder he got kicked to the curb in reality.… Expand

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aka2k

Mar 13, 2019

If you enjoy gay pornographic movies, let me give you hint: go to the internet and watch amateur porn. It's probably better than this pretentious liberal piece of crap series. There's no story per se: just porn and more porn. And very bad too. It's the most atrocious, cringe worthy thingIf you enjoy gay pornographic movies, let me give you hint: go to the internet and watch amateur porn. It's probably better than this pretentious liberal piece of crap series. There's no story per se: just porn and more porn. And very bad too. It's the most atrocious, cringe worthy thing I've ever seen in my life. And I've watched one episode from "Girls" and another from "Broadcity" back to back. This one I couldn't stomach for 5 minutes.… Expand

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tvdude

Mar 18, 2019

a never ending student film with a big budget, why and how is this crap even on? worse than netflix garbage

4 of 7 users found this helpful43

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Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: March 10, 2019
- No episode information is currently available for this season