The Last Man on Earth is an American post-apocalyptic comedy television series created by and starring Will Forte. It premiered on Fox on March 1, 2015. The pilot episode was written by Forte, and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. The series was cancelled after four seasons and aired its final episode on May 6, 2018.
Plot
Almost a year after a deadly virus sweeps the world, Phil Miller (Forte) is seemingly the only human survivor in late 2020. 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 die by 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). Despite being annoyed by each other, Carol believes it is their job as the last two survivors to repopulate the world, but insists Phil marry her so their children will not be born out of wedlock (and thus not be "bastards"). Although Phil thinks that it is ridiculous to hang on to traditions from the "old world", they marry for repopulation purposes. More survivors slowly trickle into Tucson, eventually creating a small group. When Phil's irritating attitude leads to his banishment from Tucson, Carol leaves with him.
In season two, Phil and Carol continue their road trip in the middle of 2023. They discover the group has relocated to Malibu, California, and travel there to reunite with them and rebuild trust. Meanwhile, Phil's astronaut brother Mike Miller (Jason Sudeikis) crashes down to Earth and finds his way to Malibu, where he joins the survivors briefly before getting sick; he is ostracized by most of the group for seemingly having been infected with the virus.
In season three, following a potential threat by paranoid and violent survivor Pat Brown (Mark Boone Junior), the other survivors move to a self-sustaining office building in San Jose, California, where Melissa (January Jones) struggles with mental instability and Carol discovers a young boy living in the woods, whom they name Jasper. As time passes, Erica (Cleopatra Coleman) gives birth to a girl named Dawn, and the group decides to leave the United States for Mexico after seeing a nuclear facility meltdown close to the office.
In season four, Pamela Brinton (Kristen Wiig), a rich woman living in a bunker, discovers the group via a drone. The group ends up on a boat and first meet Pamela after she kills Pat. Pamela kidnaps Phil while the other survivors end up stranded on an island. Here, they meet Glenn (Chris Elliott), who has been on the island since before the virus broke out. Pamela's guilt over abandoning the group becomes too much, and they sail back to the island. The survivors move to Zihuatanejo, Mexico, and while there, Carol gives birth to twin daughters and becomes pregnant again a few weeks later; Erica becomes pregnant again with Todd's (Mel Rodriguez) first child; and Mike temporarily rejoins the group, having recovered from what was actually a weakened immune system, before leaving to search for a way to start his own family. During a hunt for the missing Jasper, Phil and Todd end up meeting Karl (Fred Armisen) at a jail, who poses as a jailer, but is in fact a cannibal. He terrifies them until they decide to kill him, before he kills one or all of them. However, he ends up finding a Rubik's cube that once solved, explodes. Following a brief reunion with a recovered Mike, the main group then moves to Tapachula, only to be found and surrounded by dozens of underground survivors.
Although the series was cancelled, the plan for the subsequent season was to have both groups of survivors live together and gain one another's trust before the main characters ended up infecting and killing all of the others as asymptomatic carriers of the virus.