# The Collapse (2019)

> A French near future drama following several families and individuals as they struggle to survive a society-wide collapse of energy, food and order.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/80487

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 8
- Episode runtime: 25 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama, science fiction
- Created by: Guillaume Desjardins, Jérémy Bernard, Bastien Ughetto
- Network: Canal+
- Cast: Bellamine Abdelmalek, Roxane Bret, Adrien Melin, Ernst Umhauer, Étienne Ménard, Thibault de Montalembert, Michaël Abiteboul, Pauline Huruguen
- TMDB rating: 7.7/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11248266/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: mild
- Tone: bleak, tense, anxious, grounded

## What critics say

Audiences rate this single-season French collapse drama positively for its grounded, sobering portrait of societal breakdown across interlocking family stories.

## Synopsis

The Collapse (2019) is a French national-television science fiction drama series created by Guillaume Desjardins, Jérémy Bernard and Bastien Ughetto for Canal+. Its single eight-episode season, each about twenty-five minutes long, follows several unconnected individuals and families as they try to live through a civilization that has stopped working. Principal figures include Omar, Julia, Laurent Desmarest and Karine, played by Bellamine Abdelmalek, Roxane Bret, Thibault de Montalembert and Audrey Fleurot. Each character's engine is immediate and personal: securing food, keeping a household together, getting out of the path of rioting crowds, and holding on to a sense of decency when energy and supplies run low. The episodes cut between these strands, so that one household's desperate bargain or a stranded traveller's journey ripples into another's story. Set in a near future that feels uncomfortably close to present-day France, the series builds a tense, grounded atmosphere of scarcity, panic and insecurity, with a bleak, anxious tone tempered by moments of human solidarity. Fans of Survivors and The Leftovers will find resonance in its patient, character-driven view of societal unraveling, and admirers of Black Mirror's interlocking near-future tales will feel at home in its anthology-like structure.

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