For those who are interested in the political aspect. The series liked the political aspect: divided states and even more independent towns; dead cities; governments competing for the same territory; mercenary private armies, formerly fighting in hot spots, and now engaged in looting in the former US; humanitarian and economic problems (it is necessary to restore life, and it is not clear where to get food, goods, energy, medicines); towns-markets for exchanging goods with their wild rules ...
It is a pity that the series was not renewed, and it ended at a rather interesting moment.
Yes, the gaffes were:
1) excessive melodramaticity (sometimes what is called “a lot of snot”), the associated bad play;
2) the disproportionate importance of the series (some series are about a fateful global conspiracy that reveals the causes of the disaster, and in another series they extinguish the fire and let snot);
3) for the scale of the disaster, the characters of the series were able to restore too high a standard of living (all too softly - hanging out in a bar, having holidays, clean clothes, well-groomed flower beds); and when they show the larger remaining cities, so there is generally a beautiful life - people in costumes and pristine glass buildings, as if for a few kilometers there is no zone of radiation and marauding armies, which in theory should spoil all this urban beauty;
4) very many events that are quite expected after the incident are not spelled out in any way, which seriously reduces the realism (for example, there are no refugees infected with radiation, no migration, no special panic, a surge of madness and religiosity, no one is trying to “go away”, etc.).
But despite this, other similar series - that is, with a good political aspect on the national scale - I am not familiar.
9 out of 10
Original