Collider highlights The Last Ship, a five-season action drama now available on Netflix, as a blend of post-apocalyptic survival and military-thriller storytelling. The series follows a US Navy destroyer crew attempting to find a cure after a global virus devastates civilisation, giving it a premise comparable to The Walking Dead and Jack Ryan.

Loosely adapted from William Brinkley’s 1988 novel, the show premiered on TNT in 2014 and centres on the USS Nathan James, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. In its present-day setting, the pandemic kills more than 80% of the world’s population, leaving Commander Tom Chandler and his crew to protect survivors and pursue a cure.