Strange Days, Here We Come: Pop Culture, Dystopia & Collapse23 Jan 2023

10 Films About Societal Collapse - Part 1

(Note: This episode was originally released under the old podcast title "This is the End: Pop Culture & Collapse." As of July 2025 the show is now titled, "Strange Days, Here We Come: Pop Culture, Dystopia & Collapse.")

PopMythology.com film critic and novelist Jess Kroll joins me to have a conversation about 10 different movies that depict collapse in some way. In this episode, Part 1, we discuss the first five.

Scroll all the way down below to see the titles of the films discussed and during which timestamped moments that spoilers or semi-spoilers of these films are mentioned.

LINKS:

Jess Kroll's film reviews https://www.popmythology.com/author/jmskroll/
Jess Kroll author page on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/jesskrollauthor
'The One' series by Jess Kroll (as J. Manoa) https://amzn.to/3DaKuuJ
'The Werewolf Council' series by Jess Kroll (as J. Manoa) https://amzn.to/3Xz1u63 'Land of Smiles' by Jess Kroll https://amzn.to/3JlRIjk

LIST OF FILMS (and spoiler demarcations)

----------------------------------- DONBASS (7:32 - 16:42) • No spoilers

THREADS (16:57 -28:02) • Spoiler 21:45 - 22:05 • Spoiler 23:36 - 24:18 • Spoiler 26:49 - 27:14

CONTAGION (28:02 - 44:13) • Spoiler 32:38 - 34:16 • Spoiler 35:23 - 35:45 • Spoiler 38:48 - 41:15 • Spoiler 41:29 - 42:23 • Spoiler 42:34 - 44:13

CHILDREN OF MEN (44:13 - 1:01:05) • Spoiler 51:40 - 52:14 • Spoiler 52:35 - 54:23 • Spoiler 55:21 - 55:46 • Spoiler 56:25 - 57:54 • Spoiler 58:17 - 1:00:14

IDIOCRACY (1:01:05 - 1:16:12) • Spoiler 1:04:40 - 1:05:34 • Spoiler 1:11:23 - 1:12:14

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