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The Last Bus (2022)

The Last Bus poster
Directed by
Steve Hughes, Drew Casson, Lawrence Gough
Genre
drama television series, adventure television series
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 10 episodes
Rated
TV-PG
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 26 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of children are the only people left on Earth after a scientist's experiment causes everyone else to vanish. They must navigate the empty world and figure out what happened while surviving unknown threats.

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What happens

The Last Bus is a British science fiction adventure television series created by Paul Neafcy for Netflix. The series consists of ten episodes and premiered on Netflix on 1 April 2022. The show stars Moosa Mostafa, Phoebe De Silva, Daniel Frogson, Lauryn Ajufo, Marlie Morrelle, Nathanael Saleh and Carys John with guest appearances by Tom Basden, Lara McDonnell and Robert Sheehan. The show follows a group of children who are the last people on Earth when a famous scientist creates orbs that vaporise everybody on the planet. It received generally positive reviews, with praise for its style, story, casting, musical score, screenplay and emotional weight, but were divided with the acting, characters, and comparisons to Stranger Things. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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