The year is , and after a deadly virus has swept the planet, average guy Phil Miller Will Forte searches the country for other survivors, but finds no one. Phil comes to the painful realisation that he is almost certainly the last living being on earth. All he wants is for someone - anyone - to find him - preferably a woman. Season 1 contains 13 episodes.
Almost a year after a deadly virus sweeps the world, Phil Miller Will Forte is seemingly the only human survivor in late As he searches for others and paints signs in every state saying he is alive in his hometown of Tucson, Arizona , he finds no one. After years of being alone, he decides to run his truck into a rock to commit suicide. He happens to look off to the side right before he hits and sees smoke; he ends up discovering another survivor, Carol Pilbasian Kristen Schaal. Although Phil thinks that it is ridiculous to hang on to traditions from the "old world", they marry for re-population purposes.
Network: FOX. Episodes: 67 half-hour. Seasons: Four. Series status: Cancelled.
You can turn on the TV at any given moment and see the real-life version on every news network, but for the accidentally prescient depiction of this scenario, there's sitcom The Last Man on Earth. Running for four seasons, it tells the story of the so-called last man on earth, Phil "Tandy" Miller Will Forte and those he finds along the way. Tandy is a self-absorbed slob who before the start of the series has spent a year searching the United States for other survivors of a deadly virus but come up short.