The show you mentioned, would you recommend looking into it?
That’s a good question. While Carol & the End of the World is a very good show, I wouldn’t recommend it for everyone. It’s definitely slow and introspective, but it’s also raw and unfiltered. There’s a very quiet melancholy and loneliness that permeates through the writing and the voice actors portrayal of Carol that is evident from the first moment she opens her mouth.
The first episode was heartbreaking in a very mundane way. How Carol, while facing the end of the world, is still trying to reach normalcy in her life whether its trying to repay old debts that have long since been forgiven to trying to schedule a dental cleaning. Her gentle desperation for closeness and that day to day humdrum that was her life before the news of the impending apocalypse is strangely relatable. That empty feeling of lost purpose (whether it was there to begin with or not) is present in nearly everyone, end of the world or not.
its definitely not a show for everyone, I’ll give you that. But I feel a sense of camaraderie with Carol and the way she feels so outside they way everyone else is coping, and when she finally starts to break free of her cocoon, you feel like breaking free right along with her.
All I can say is give it a try. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed the writing and narrative of the story. I’m looking forward to finishing the series!








