The Last Man on Earth's best accomplishment was creating a post-apocalyptic world where things didn't suck

The Mary Sue

"It would have been so, so easy to have the show go full-on Walking Dead nihilistic, with death, danger, pointlessness, and everybody out for themselves," says Sarah Barrett. "If anyone could’ve made that kind of constant bleakness funny, the Last Man team could, but they didn’t want to. Although it did sometimes approach that line, it always quickly dialed back, and nowhere was this more clear than it its treatment of women. After the aforementioned awkward start, Last Man on Earth set about dismantling the tropes so often assigned to female characters in end-of-the-world stories."