Now apocalypse6/17/2023 ![]() Now Apocalypse, then, is a mixture of elements that have been “normalized” and which Araki is eager to push to extremes, within both the TV landscape and the culture. Here he’s definitely taking back polyamory, aggressive gay sex and all manner of queer flexibility. Equally likely is the reality that Araki was miles ahead of the cultural curve when he started his career, and he keeps returning to his native themes because he has to reclaim them from the mainstream. On one hand, it’s easy to feel like Araki’s fascinations with blurred sexual boundaries, youthful disaffection, recreational drug use and, frequently, how those elements intersect with the themes and rhythms of science fiction haven’t changed in the 20 years he’s been making films. Oh, and did I mention that Ulysses is having premonitions about the end of the world and there’s also at least one rape-y lizard creature presumably from outer space? Rounding out the show’s core quartet is Carly (Kelli Berglund), an unemployed actor by day and cam girl by night. ![]() Ford’s in a relationship with Severine (Roxane Mesquida), an astrobiological theorist at some sort of ultra-futuristic research facility that could double as an international modeling agency. Ulysses lives with Ford, a college friend and aspiring screenwriter, who is described in the press notes as a “beefcake,” though “beau hunk” would be doubly accurate, I suppose, since he’s played by Beau Mirchoff. The first three episodes of Now Apocalypse premiered at Sundance ahead of the show’s March 10 Starz premiere, and what they form, in Araki terms, is basically Nowhere delivered in 30-minute episodic bites.ĭirected by Araki, who co-wrote with Slutever sexpert Karley Sciortino, Now Apocalypse is the Los Angeles odyssey of Ulysses (Avan Jogia), a former aspiring actor now living a life of pot-induced low motivation, obsessing over a new, mysterious online dating crush, Tyler Posey’s Gabriel.
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