The color palette is a bleak, sunburnt orange-brown. Cars are strewn in the street, but not so densely as to be expensive or unsightly.

It’s not that it’s completely pessimistic (these stories almost all end with bittersweet hope), but that it’s such a lackluster creative response to these fears. You could get sidetracked and spiral just thinking about the number of scripts that’ve been written, shopped around, and pushed into production by hungry execs looking to capitalize on audiences’ anxiety. Finch and its fatherly interests in teaching a robot (Caleb Landry Jones) to survive in order for it to help a dog survive, might just be another drop in this particular sci-fi bucket, but its overachieving performances and FX (and uneasy relationship to our present) at least allows it moments of novelty in the subgenre’s long and crowded legacy.ĭirected by Miguel Sapochnik, Finch (which used to have the much better name BIOS) so familiarly slots into our cultural idea of a post-apocalypse that it’s almost depressing. But like many Last Man on Earth stories, ranging from Harlan Ellison to Fallout-from I Am Legend to Mary Shelley and Stephen King-a dog can be worth everything once civilization has fallen. There’s plenty of sand, and if it wasn’t for his dog, you’d think Finch (Tom Hanks) would happily dip his dome under the dunes. The post-apocalyptic Finch takes place in such a future, dominated by extreme weather and hot enough to pop popcorn off a stray hubcap, watching a man reckon with his choices as he’s confronted with mortality.

By now, it’s down to about three: Those that’d prefer to keep their heads in the sand, those desperately shouting for change, and those profiting off of inaction at the expense of our global future. In the U.S., researchers initially dubbed these groups the Six Americas. As climate chaos continues to spin out of control, the populace has begun splitting into a few groups.

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