Earlier this month, MGM+ quietly released one of its most compelling and thought-provoking series based on George R. Stewart's forward-thinking 1949 post-apocalyptic novel Earth Abides. Rather than setting it in the 1940s, the similarly titled 6-episode series is set in present-day California, after a deadly disease wipes out most of civilization. Geologist Ish (Alexander Ludwig) discovers what has happened to the world after a snake bite forces him out of the mountains where he has been secluded working on his graduate thesis.

After discovering that his family and everyone he loved has died during the pandemic, Ish reckons with a new form of isolation in the premiere, before finally crossing paths with the love of his life, Emma (Jessica Frances Dukes) who has similarly survived the deadly disease. Earth Abides spans years in a matter of episodes, and by the time Episode 4 rolls around, the series has already explored seventeen years in the lives of Ish, Emma, and the other survivors they build a community with.

Ahead of the premiere, I caught up with the series' stars, Alexander Ludwig and Jessica Frances Dukes, to discuss their characters; what it was like for Ludwig to spend so much of Episode 1 entirely alone as Ish; what animals their characters would be, since so much of the series is rooted in very primal animal insticts; and what it was like going from Earth Abides to their upcoming roles in The Gilded Age and Night Comes.

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