12/13/2023 0 Comments Apocalypse starz![]() ![]() In her job, as an “astrobiological theorist,” whose responsibilities include travelling to Roswell, Severine wears a lab coat her off-the-job wardrobe is rather more vampy, as when, in prelude to group sex, she shrink-wraps herself in a silver dress, and Ford says, “Whoa! You look like a sex robot!” “I am a sex robot,” she replies, in a tone that opens the possibility that she is not kidding. When he puppyishly asks if they’re girlfriend-boyfriend, she says, without affect, “You know I believe that monogamy is an arbitrary cage foisted upon us by the miserable capitalist patriarchy.” Ford is committed to Severine (Roxane Mesquida), an icy Frenchwoman, but she doesn’t believe in commitment. We meet him as he’s transitioning into doing temp work, which he does while staying constantly stoned.įord (Beau Mirchoff), Uly’s roommate, is an optimistic doofus in possession of an allowance that subsidizes his work, composing bad screenplays. This handsome everyman went to Hollywood to be an actor, but he lacked a taste for masochism and thirst for fame requisite to keep up the struggle. Araki’s previous heroes were bisexual or pansexual or, in the case of Dark Smith, “undeclared” Uly rates himself an “ever-oscillating four” on the Kinsey scale. Like Dark Smith (the hero of “Nowhere”), just plain Smith (of “Kaboom”), and Stephen Dedalus (of James Joyce’s Dublin), he wanders through long days to the bottoms of dark nights. The key connector of the group is Uly (Avan Jogia), which is short for Ulysses. The central characters are twentysomethings, recent college graduates now living in a timelessly glassy L.A. The work is, now, psychoactive in itself. The druggy hedonism of the past has waned, and, in the series, even orgy scenes have an air of restraint and a sense of sunniness. Simultaneously an off-kilter erotic comedy, a camp romance, and a coming-of-age thriller, “Now Apocalypse” redeems the grosser excesses of Araki’s movies. As directed by Araki, “Now Apocalypse” hoses down the punk scuzz of his early work and, with liberally applied soap-opera suds, brings its material to a shimmer. ![]() In 2010, he reprised these themes in “Kaboom,” a story about college students navigating love and lust while anticipating Armageddon. Those movies, along with “Totally Fucked Up,” made up what would become known as the “teen-age apocalypse trilogy” time moved on, and his clock remained set, sometimes productively, in 1999. In the nineteen-nineties, Araki made his name with films such as “The Doom Generation,” a tale of a ménage à trois among aimless sleazoids, and “Nowhere,” which linked teen alienation with alien abduction. And among its charms is that of Araki applying his echt Gen-X sensibility to the concerns of his juniors. Queer and odd, horny and corny, the show bundles the pet themes of the filmmaker and series creator Gregg Araki into an eccentric exercise in ennobling smut. It is a sleeper hit, insofar as you are probably sleeping on its unorthodox unpacking of premonitory dreams. The order also furthers Soderbergh’s relationship with Starz, for whom he also executive produces the drama series “The Girlfriend Experience,” based on his 2009 film of the same name.Last Sunday, the fifth of ten episodes of Starz’s “Now Apocalypse” aired to an audience of eighty-five thousand viewers-lousy by the standards of cable television, but excellent by the metrics of ecstatic visions. “Now Apocalypse” will be created and executive produced by Gregg Araki, with Steven Soderbergh also set to executive produce. Starz has ordered a 10-episode first season of “Now Apocalypse.” All 10 episodes are co-written by author and sex columnist Karley Sciortino, creator and host of “Slutever” on Viceland. He is repped by Gersh and 3 Arts Entertainment. Posey also recently starred in the Blumhouse film “Truth or Dare,” Kevin Smith’s feature comedy “Yoga Hosers.”He has also appeared in films like “Scary Movie 5” and “White Frog.” Currently, he recurs on the CW’s “Jane the Virgin” and recently joined the cast of MTV’s “Scream: The TV Series” for Season 3. Posey played the lead character on MTV’s “Teen Wolf,” which aired its 100th and final episode in September 2017. ![]() The series stars Avan Jogia, Kelli Berglund, Beau Mirchoff and Roxane Mesquida. ![]()
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