Friday, December 4, 2020

Post Apocalyptic Kid Shows

 Living through a dystopian 21 century global plague isn't all bad, I've had the opportunity to watch 2 netflix post-apocalyptic kid shows with my youngest son.

We recently finished off the most recent season of "The Last Kids on Earth". It isn't very serious at all and is full of cartoon gadgets, monsters, and inter-dimensional magical forces and zombies. Every now and then the main characters get a tad upset about everyone being dead or possibly just gone but have plenty of time for goofy adventures to improve their community or save the world. It's not very deep or serious but it's good simple fun with giant monsters, ruin scavenging, and zombies. I may have talked about it before butt it is entertaining enough to mention again.

https://www.netflix.com/title/80219119

The show is based on a book series my son read the first of a year or two ago. It's light reading with a little bit of good cartoony art. I've always been a sucker for kids books with a bit of eye-candy.

http://www.lastkidsonearth.com/

Another netflix post-apocalyptic kid show my son and I just started watching is "Kipo and The Age of Wonderbeasts". Only a few episodes in and while the show is extremely cartoony it feels a tad deeper than The Last Kids on Earth. Kipo is a a vault dweller who is out on the surface discovering the ruined world of talking mutes (mutants) that are a host of riotously comical animal mutants. There are bad guy frogs, lumberjack cats, rocker snakes, and colossal titanic mutants (the Megabeasts) that shake up everything now and again, imagine Gamma World "wahoo" style being a "9" on a 1 to 10 scale, well crank that up to 11 and you have Kipo and The Age of Wonderbeasts. We're only 4 or so episodes in and I am looking forward to more.

https://www.netflix.com/title/80221553

 These post apocalyptic kid shows make the future look a lot more fun than the apocalypse has been so far.


6 comments:

  1. check out Daybreak, post-apocalyptic teen drama

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    1. I've seen Daybreak and really enjoyed it even with all is teen-angst and wokeness. It's frank and honest discussion of sex is appropriate for it's audience but serves to place it just outside of a Kid show for me. It feels very-much like "Last Kids on Earth" for 16 year olds.

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  2. I watched the first season of "Kipo" with my son and the whole time I was thinking "This is a Gamma World tv show if there ever was one!" It's great!

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    1. Ever read the Gammarauders comicbook? It feels a bit more like that than straight GW does.

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  3. I think you'd appreciate Adventure Time.

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    1. I do. I've never sat and watched the whole series but I have seen a few of them. I recall one where the dog became a brick to see what it was like and really appreciated how much they were doing there.

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