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The Last Ship

The 56 episode series appeared on TNT.  At the helm of the USS Nathan James en-route to the Arctic, Capt. Tom Chandler learns that the destroyer will be in the best possible place — a circumstance his crew must utilize — to save humanity from extinction.  A virus has wiped out more than half the population since the ship embarked, and despite orders from the U.S. government to return, Chandler — believing home is now a shadow of itself — decides the safest place to develop a vaccine is at sea.  That task falls mainly to virologist Dr. Rachel Scott, a civilian originally assigned to the Nathan James to study birds.  In that fiction the epidemic marched around the world and governments collapsed. Hulu has acquired exclusive streaming video-on-demand rights to all episodes.

 

Contagion

A 2011 movie about a pandemic with potentially eerie similarities to recent events.   The tag line on Netflix movie poster are the words “Nothing spreads like fear.” The movie has been climbing up the iTunes rental charts, reflecting how people often use fiction as a means to process reality.

 

Outbreak

An airborne virus gets inadvertently smuggled into the US from Africa, requiring a team of doctors (led by Dustin Hoffman) to race against time trying to save a town where the infection is spreading.

 

Of course you may not want to watch any of these stories while the world is under siege from the coronavirus.