Still the main problem with this is that old devil 'Verisimlatude': I might buy the "electrical grid" going down, but Batteries? stand-alone circuits like generators? Give me a break. I'll stop complaining only to see where the next plot twist takes the storyline- but parts of the 'set-up' were a bit insulting.
Another problem is, everyone looks too clean & well fed. Motorized transport seems to be non-existent, sailboats are in damned short supply, so how come everyone decides to live in the interior of the Midwest? And as for getting around: okay we're walking across the continent...some folks for years...how come everyone looks so 'soft'. You have people burning up calories, doing hard-scrabble farming to survive, and no-one should be living large- and one guy weighs about 300#, and everyone else looks like they showered twice a day. Some of the settings almost work- but Production values seem to be a lot off. You don't get a feeling for how damn long it would take to go anywhere in the world of this show, with the reduced mobility resulting from having no motor or animal- based transportation. I mean going from 'somewhere in Illinois',to the city of Chicago, seemingly in a few hours on foot, with little effort? This is getting tiring- NO pun intended. The basic idea- Civilization collapsed due to no communications and no mobility, is a rich and used-often concept....but please- there would be a greater number of people looking pretty damned tired & dirty, far more than this crew was, as they wandered around the country. And how come so many of the men do not have beards? Or does the one thing that survived from before the power went off was 'really Good Razorblades?'
