Daybreak
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Our Review
An end of the world John Hughes movie as a series, gladiatorial high school tribes ruling a burnt out Los Angeles, adults zombified into Ghoulies, and a lonely narrator breaking the fourth wall constantly. Colin Ford’s Josh searches for his lost girlfriend Sam across a wasteland run by jocks, ’90s anime fans, and cheerleaders, with a samurai sword-wielding twelve year-old and a converted football-player mystic as his crew.
The style is relentless, fourth wall breaks, fantasy sequences, Matthew Broderick playing the apocalypse’s saddest principal in flashbacks, and that energy carries the first half. But the plot runs out of map: the worldbuilding raises questions (who’s making the gas? where are the bodies?) the show has no intention of answering, and the love triangle material sags. Canceled after one season on a cliffhanger, which is a shame, the cast (especially Alyvia Alyn Lind’s berserker Angelica and Austin Crute’s fabulous Wesley) deserved a second round.
Verdict: Watch it if you like your apocalypse with a side of breakfast club. A fun ten hours that doesn’t stick the landing.
