The Last of Us is a brilliant series indeed! I love the character played by Bella Ramsey and am a fan of Pedro Pascal. Thanks to one particular episode there was a run on tampons the day after it aired in the US: thousands of young American women learned 'bleeding from down there' was normal. It's small educational details like that that make a series worthwhile for me. Another game adaption - if you don't know it already - is Fallout. And have you heard of The Silo? About survivors of a worldwide nucleair disaster. Creepy because it looks quite believable: some power hungry fascists controlling 'the people' with lies 'n stuff. Including a kind of dumb 'stormtroopers' in leather boots that do anything for their Great Leader in exchange for a few simple priveleges.
Can also recommend the Danish post-apocalyps series The Rain, really liked The 100 but also the German time travel dramaseries Dark and series like Snowpiercer, based on a French comic book: the only way to survive man's tempering with Mother Nature (that lead to a new Ice Age) is to board an ever ongoing train. Of course the people who paid most money to the megalomaniac billioniare who had it build get most priveleges. An excercise in the class system people like Karl Marx tried to warn us for. And a manual for people like Elon Musk. Who, so the story goes - there goes my ADHD brain again. Sorry - was named after The Elon, a small group of dictators ruling the planet Mars. A story written by famous nazi scientist Werner von Braun. Elon's father was a fan.
Do you like The Walking Dead franchise? I love how they explore different types of government with running into small communities based on different sociapolitical systems: communism, feminism, socialism, capitalism, fascism and other -ism's. If you're into a little more absurd, check out Station Eleven; the short series tells the story of a sort of cult that believes everything in a made up book is literally true and considers all characters in said book as 'holy'. I can't think of a similar incident in 'our' society dating back some 2,000 years... ;-)
Station Eleven combines dealing with the apocalypse with....wait for it...Shakespeare. Because why not? Some episodes look like directed by David Lynch but it also shows the believable struggles of a guy who could easily be your neighbour: simply trying to survive while clinging to what he knows, like finishing a job for a client although he knows the client is already dead.
