I’ve watched about half of these. One thing I always find terribly amusing is that in the British series the individual with a simple double-barrel shotgun is the high muckymuck because everyone else had nothing more deadly than a crossbow or a cricket bat. Contrast that with, say, Walking Dead where our heroes went from 870’s and Remington 700’s to MP5, M4, and AUG’s in less than three seasons. (Heck, they even had an RPG at one point.)
What I don’t like is that, at least in the series I’ve seen, it all boils down to a) having to fight other survivors for resources and b) scrounging. And while those probably would be rather important, I am always amazed how hygiene, or the utter lack thereof, leads to almost no bad consequences. Take Walking Dead….its summer in Georgia and these people are covered in dirt, sweat, blood, and a zillion other nasties and no one gets an infection when they cut or scrape themselves.
Anyway…entertaining post-apocalyptic TV shows are fairly rare. Movies come and go all the time, but TV shows…not so much. Probably because its difficult on a TV budget to empty out several square blocks of a city (which is why so many of these take place in rural settings, I suppose.)
Anyway, for your amusement…………
Ah, how could they leave out “Woops!”, a short-lived post-nuclear apocalypse sitcom, considered by some to be one of the worst TV series ever made.
Wrong. Worst TV series ever made: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heil_Honey_I%27m_Home!
“Heil Honey I’m Home! is a British sitcom, written by Geoff Atkinson and produced in 1990, which was cancelled after one episode. It centres on Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, who live next door to a Jewish couple, Arny and Rosa Goldenstein. The show spoofs elements of mid-20th century American sitcoms and is driven by Hitler’s inability to get along with his neighbours. It caused controversy when broadcast and has been called “perhaps the world’s most tasteless situation comedy”.
https://youtu.be/mf9jJx0NSjw It’s even worst than they say.
Anyone have the list? I am totally not motivated to watch this. The only decent PAW tv series worth a small crap that i can remember is Jericho.
btw, Zombies are NOT PAW, they are horror/ridiculous fiction. (and i horselaugh every time i see zombies utilized in this fashion. those of us around the net since it got popular know what group that ‘zombies’ refer to. hollywood hasnt a clue, but i’m sure thats no suprise to you all).
I think youre missing the larger picture. Whether it is something ‘realistic’ like a pandemic, or ‘unrealistic’ like zombies, the end result it still the same: massive infrastructure failure and the attendant problems that come with it. If the power is out, there’s no food in the stores, and no water in the pipes, it really doesn’t matter if the cause was zombies or MIRV’s, the story remains prety much the same – survive within the destroyed environment.
Additionally, you can simply click on and move the slider to fast forward through the video and watch for the onscreen text saying what each show is.
Yeah Thanks. Agree you can gain insight from about anything regardless of how good/bad it is. But i’ve prob seen about all of them anyway (or intentionally not seen) and am burnt out on some random utubers idea of good. I much prefer the opinions of the semi-vetted group of folks here when looking for viewing fodder. The remainder of my life minutes that i have to spend is decreasing every day.
Also, i did the slider thing and the breaks werent obvious to me + didnt see any text i could key off of. and the vid just looked like it wasnt worth my time. Yeah, call me lazy when it comes to stuff like that. i’d rather be reading something that has a higher %age of containing a gem (or better yet, doing something physical, of course).
No slam for anyone in ^that^ so i hope no one takes it that way.
“Zombies” are allegory for real people. No one can make a movie or TV show about shooting desperately hungry refugees in the head just to protect what little you have, so instead we talk about “zombies”.
Yes, you are correct. But the original usage came about in regards to a more narrow group of people. The general public didnt know the history and used it as you describe when they encountered it.
speaking of end of the world and no stuff available, just picked up some .243 reloading supplies. Kind of partial to the Hornady poly tip projectiles. What with Ruger, S&W, etc. still pumping out fire sticks and nobody has any money to buy, prices may come to the buy cheap stack deep scenario. Looking at you S&W MP sport.
https://gunprime.com/products/smith-wesson-m-p15-sport-ii-5-56-nato-ar15-12936
oh yeah, that’s the one! Thanks.
“Looking at you S&W MP sport.” I’m no ‘high-end’ gun guy, and this has been the platform I like to incrementally stockpile for my progeny. I’m surprised at the availability of ‘used’ M&P-15s, often well under $500. Skip the “bubba’d” ones obviously. My ‘used’ collection looks like they’ve had less than 100 rounds put through them collectively. The only thing I change -out is the factory all-plastic handguard. Pretty sweet little rifles.
When it comes to hygiene, it reminds me of a story my Dad told me about from early in the Korean War. He was a marine infantry grunt and those boys spent a LOT of time on the frontlines with very rare RR standowns (the Chinese were winning at that point). He said you could always tell who was a grunt and who was a REMF at the RR points because the first thing the actual combat types did was get a hot shower and shave and into clean clothing while the REMFs would wander around in dirty uniforms and beards carrying odds and ends of captured Chicom gear to demonstrate their combat “creds” to the even further from the front support types running the joint.
The longest I went without an actual shower or bath was almost 50 days in the Posavina Corridor Bosnia in Jan / Feb of 1996. Conditions were pretty basic but I made damn sure I kept clean and shaved and presentable with bucket baths and doing laundry in in hot water heated on our diesel stoves (it was freezing cold). It’s critical at times like that to pay attention to hygiene. We had some young kids who didn’t and they had to be evacced with serious staph infections. Finally got a hot one when the SeaBees (bless them) came in to Camp Kime and built us a swell soup to nuts shower. Never enjoyed one
so much in my life!
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Appreciate all you went thru for our country. Thank You.
I think that the most underrated prep is hygiene. I cannot imagine 50 days. >mind boggled<.
It was experiences like that over the years that have made sure that hygiene, antibiotic, and cleaning supplies are over represented in my stores. A simple scratch can turn into a major life threatening infection within a matter of hours. Especially with the rise of non treatable bacterial strains due to overuse of antibiotics. I’ve seen it happen. VR MRSA killed someone I loved very much. I’ve taken that lesson to heart…
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BTW, that list appears to be from 2014.
Thanks for the pleasant memory. I don’t know why, but that guy with the 30” long barrels on his double barreled shotgun, as the well armed thug, always makes me laugh. It was as if anyone with more than a butter knife was well armed for the apocalypse. Here in the US of A he’d at least have cut down the barrel and Bubba the thing up. Those Brits are just not ready for the end of civilization.
Well, not ready for the Mad Max shoot-em-up part anyway.
It should have the 1970’s BBC Survivors not the remake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors_(1975_TV_series)
I have both complete series on dvd and on iTunes also on the remake.
Having spent over a decade as a NYC Paramedic in the South Bronx, I can tell you that the zombies DO exist. Drugs are the biggest problem, but not what you’d expect. When the black market supplies run out or there is just no source for the amount of money needed, the street urchins (which will include the middle class accountants and the upper class housewives that secretly need to get high) will NEED to find alternatives. You can’t imagine the things that I’ve seen. Injecting carburetor cleaner, huffing insect spray, alcoholics drinking disinfectant. I really had a heroin addict inject mayonnaise. It doesn’t take long for these things to rot their brains and literally look and act like the zombies from the cheapest horror movie. Remember that pain is transmitted via the neurologic network and this is precisely what ceases to function normally with these kinds of toxins. I once had a guy shot by police because he was wandering around trying to eat people. He bit chunks of flesh out of passersby, and when confronted, tried to bite the cops. They tazed him and it didn’t do a thing. They tried to cuff him and he threw them around like rag dolls.
Note to self: cancel summer vacation plans to the Bronx.
Thanks for you anecdote. Folks do not realize just how stressful the EMT profession is – particularly in big cities. They see all the worst stuff like the cops but don’t receive a fraction of the publicity or pay in many cases…
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