Network: NBC
Episodes: One (hour)
Seasons: 10
TV show dates: January 28, 2016 — March 31, 2016
Series status: Cancelled/ended
Performers include: Mathew Baynton, Joel Fry, Pauline Quirke, Jenna Fischer, Kyle Soller, Rob Lowe, Gaia Scodellaro, Paterson Joseph, Megan Mullally, Diana Rigg, and Fabian McCallum.
TV show description:
This dramedy TV series revolves around the last days of mankind. When word gets out that a comet is on a collision course with Earth, an unexpected chain of events is set in motion. What will people do in the 34 days they have left?
Against a backdrop of apocalyptic chaos, an eclectic group of seemingly unconnected characters from around the world begin to intersect in unexpected ways. They each cope with the impending end of the world in his or her own bizarre way.
Father Jude Sutton (Rob Lowe) is a rebellious and foul-mouthed priest and he’s aided by his timid assistant, Sister Celine Leonti (Gaia Scodellaro).
A mild-mannered librarian, Rhonda McNeil (Jenna Fischer) finds herself dangerously out of her depth when she is sent to a maximum-security prison for a crime she didn’t commit.
Rhonda unwillingly befriends Leanne Parkins (Megan Mullally), an unhinged white supremacist who takes the deeply reluctant librarian under her wing. Morally dubious (but intensely loyal), Leanne is a woman who is uniquely suited to surviving the end of times.
Rhonda’s twin brother is Scotty McNeil (Kyle Soller). He’s a member of the Specials Situations Group — the underfunded department responsible for planning the official U.S. government response to apocalyptic scenarios. He works with his boyfriend, U.S. General Arnold Gaines (Paterson Joseph) to try to stop the comet.
Meanwhile, Jamie Winton (Mathew Baynton) is a humble bank manager from Slough who is hopelessly stuck in a rut. He lives with his adoptive mother, Paula (Pauline Quirke), and Dave Bosley (Joel Fry) is Jamie’s laid-back best friend.
Jamie’s still in mourning over the mysterious disappearance of his wife, Layla, seven years ago. Spurred into action as a result of the impending apocalypse, Jamie embarks on a perilous quest to finally find his loved one.
Jamie learns that he has an estranged twin brother named Ariel Conroy (Mathew Baynton). He’s also known as the White Horse and is the leader of a cyber terrorist group called Deus Ex Machina.
Some of the misfits are destined to make it to a safety bunker that’s deep beneath the English suburbs of Slough. They will ultimately become the unlikely (and totally unsuitable) future of mankind.
Episode #10 — The End of the World
Rhonda is reunited with her family as they fly to the bunker in Slough. When a piece of the comet hits the jet and forces them to crash-land two miles from their destination, Rhonda is forced to make a difficult moral decision.
Frankie follows the voice in her head to find Paula and Dave and lead them to Jamie in the bank vault, where Jamie learns Dave and his mum are married, and they learn Ariel has assumed Jamie’s identity.
Celine gets a surprising message from Jude’s spirit.
Layla figures out Ariel isn’t Jamie and makes a harrowing escape. She reunites with Jamie and the gang, and when they encounter a downed bridge, Jamie does something that stuns everyone.
With Jamie’s help, Rajesh volunteers to make the ultimate sacrifice for the group. After who we think is Jamie runs inside, we soon discover the real Jamie naked at the side of the truck. Ariel has entered the bunker, not Jamie. (Courtesy NBC.)
First aired: March 31, 2016.
What do you think? Do you like the You, Me and the Apocalypse TV show? Would you have liked to see the characters return for a second season?
This was a funny, well written script with good actors. Too many unanswered questions. Needs another season!
Now we’ll never know who or what is in the crate or why the monkey was sticking its paw into the guy’s wound. But I did love the shot with soldier holding the saw. Dinner anyone?
I really would like to see “You, Me and the Apocalypse” return for a 2nd season! I loved the concept and would really like to see what happens next!!
I would have liked to see season 2.
I have so many questions left about what happened at the end of the series! The network really needs to return this show!!!
We really wanted to see what happens next, who was in that box, why the old lady abandoned her kids etc. Network tv is terrible which is why I barely watch it. hopefully netflix will pick it up for atleast 1 more season.
I will miss this series….sad! Something original that should have been promoted better.
Well, we didn’t even give this one a chance. Thanks. I just love it when I watch a show then it suddenly ends on a cliff-hanger. I’m sure you can find some unoriginal drivel with which to replace it.
Really liked it, didn’t see “the suicide” (no spoiler alert intended) coming, which is one of the reasons I watched it. Too bad, NBC, you had a chance to really have a winner here.
I think it was made to look like a suicide! Im disappointed that we wont find out for sure.
There’s one more episode next week!
I was saddened to hear the show was cancelled. I was really looking forward to season 2. I really enjoy the acting. Megan kills me, She is so funny.
I wish they would just say the show wil will run for one season.
I found a series I actually like and loved it till the ending but then they go and end it I enjoyed I think it was a bad choice to cancel it because those who did watch loved it
I loved this show! I really think that NBC made a bad choice is cancelling this show. I can think of at least four other shows they might have chosen to cancel. I’m hoping someone else picks this up and I am HUGE fan.
That’s a shame. It was a little slow in starting. I think that’s why people didn’t latch on to it. Plus it did have a lot of British type humor. Which I personally found great. The rest of my family just didn’t get why I found many things funny. All I know is that you can’t kill off Rob Lowe.
I didn’t quite get the appeal of this show. It was a bit of a yarn. But please please give Jenna Fischer another show. I love her.
Every friggin’ time I decide to give a show a chance, they cancel it on me. Daybreak, Awake, Revolution, how many more? Pisses me off. From now on, to Hell with NBC and ABC. I’m sticking with TV Land and MeTV from now on. Those shows survived past season two. Un-freakin’-believable! This show gets cancelled yet “The Last Man on Earth” keeps going!?!?!? I’m annoyed.
I think a comet hitting this show would be an act of mercy for the poor actors in this 40 minute waste of time.