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To the Lake (Russian: Эпидемия, romanized: Epidemiya, lit. 'epidemic') is a Russian post-apocalyptic thriller television series launched on the Premier platform on 14 November 2019.[2] Its first season is based on Vongozero, a novel by Russian author Yana Vagner.[3] Netflix acquired the first season and released it internationally on 8 October 2020.

I found this while looking for zombie content, and it's fairly near. Think of a Contagion type of movie but nobody trusts each other.

Typically in these apocalypse films the characters are so terrible that you kind of want them to fail. Here, they came close, but there is enough humanity and futility lumped together that I actually care about these survivors struggles.

If you like thoughtful, dark, and a bit frustrating character studies of adversity in the context of a pandemic - this show is a worthwhile watch.

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