The cameras zoomed in and replayed the shattering many times. Dramatic Shattering: When the raiders attacked and broke into the warehouse, they shattered bottles of goat milk.Naturally, they both pull the charging handles when trying to intimidate the colonists. Dramatic Gun Cock: The trader's pick-up carries a heavy machine gun and the other guard is armed with an AK.This also included making sure that no cars or planes were heard passing by. The surrounding area was cordoned off from the public to ensure that the immersion wasn't broken. The 1st installment was filmed in an abandoned industrial park surrounding the Los Angeles river channels. Housing and warmth, defenses from animals and raiders, food, running water - all the necessities needed to survive. The gathered "survivors" had to band together to survive by any means that they could. Drain: The show was a "survival experiment" set in a What If? After the End setting where humanity has been wiped out by a disease. examines a can of cat food he found earlier and after finding it's nothing but tuna, he eats it. Dog Food Diet: In their final days, the group has only rice left to eat and not whole lot of it.A hair-pulling catfight immediately commences. Designated Girl Fight: While Andre and Elizabeth are getting kicked out, Elizabeth flails and hits Allison.This worked in his favour, as other colonists were taking his remarks as humorous rather than direct insults. Deadpan Snarker: While Mike was a genuine Jerkass, Joey instead implied a lot of deadpan remarks.A self-professed "mad scientist," he designed their flamethrower as well as a Tesla coil that used lightning bolts to create ozone so that they could purify their water without needing to boil it. Cool Car: They built a van with retractable solar panels that runs on woodsmoke.Confession Cam: Used liberally throughout each episode.Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: The colonist remember about George for about 5 days.Chekhov's Gun: Or, more accurately, Chekhov's flamethrower.Cabin Fever: While the warehouse's compound is big, it's still a limited space and half of it roofed, so eventually people start to get really cranky about it.
Big Fancy House: Well it's certainly not fancy, but they have a giant building stocked with almost everything they could possibly need to build whatever they needed.And then there is the never-ending bickering between the colonists themselves. The group starts pretty nice, but quickly ends up defensive over what they consider "theirs", steals, denies shelter to outsiders (despite hanging out huge SOS sign) and gets progressively more territorial in their behaviour. The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People: Subverted.All There in the Manual: The reason Mike is so good with solar panels and low voltage installations? That's what he actually does for a living.After the End: The entire show's premise is that the colonists are trying to survive the post-apocalypse and find greener pastures.