Asks what it means for us, as consumers of media and as members of the human race, to live in a world inundated with representations of the apocalypse. These essays explore how the serialization of the end of the world allows for a more persistent and close examination of the disintegration of humanity before, after, and as it happens.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Apocalyptic Saturations; or, The End of the World Will Not
Michael G. Cornelius and Sherry Ginn
Apocalyptic Television, Hobbes’s Moral Psychology and the Tenuous Nature of Liberal Democratic Values
William S. Allen
Post-Apocalyptic Competition and Cooperation in The Handmaid’s Tale and The Walking Dead
Sherry Ginn
The Long Winter of Discontent: The Changing Society of Survivors
Fernando-Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Juan Ignacio Juvé and Emiliano Aguilar
Risk Without End? The Seriality of Risk, the Outbreak Narrative and Serial Post-Apocalypse in Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s The Strain
Sebastian Müller
Driven to Extinction, Again: Cadillacs and Dinosaurs and the Irresistible Apocalypse
Tony Perrello and C. Anne Engert
The End of Everything: Survival Narratives and Everyday Heroism in Battlestar Galactica
E. Leigh McKagen
Apocalypse(s) Already: Doomsday Preppers at the End of The(ir) Worlds
JZ Long
Reinvesting in the Rapture: Apocalypse and Faith in The Leftovers
Christina Wilkins
Social Life and Death in The Leftovers: Surviving the Personal Apocalypse
Derek R. Sweet
“How many times have I died?”: Time Loops, Post-Human Reversion and the Editable Self in The Magicians
Michael G. Cornelius
Westworld and the Apocalyptic Cycle
Adam Ellerbrock
Postnatural Comedy in The Last Man on Earth
John Elia
Appendix 1: Apocalypse Television Series
Appendix 2: “Darkness”
Lord Byron
About the Contributors
Index