The crew from The Last Man on Earth arrived, hopeful, in San Francisco in Sunday’s episode, after a road trip that took them north from Malibu where they landed in Season Two. But, sadly, as the crest a ridge in... well, they come to a precipice at what looks like Twin Peaks except they arrive there from someplace that is not Twin Peaks, overlooking all of San Francisco from a road, as if this were Marin and there were no body of water separating the two, and they find a smoldering city in ruins, apparently uninhabited.
Devotees of the show know that central character Phil (Will Forte) began in the first season worried that he might be the only survivor of a plague that wipes out much of the world’s population in 2022. By now it is 2023, and he’s been on the road with new wife Carol (Kristen Schaal) and a few others they’ve picked up along the way including January Jones and Mary Steenburgen, and now in Season Three they are on the hunt for other survivors, and maybe a new place to hunker down. As you can see in the clip from Yahoo TV, they also encounter a building with working electricity, and, presumably, plumbing.
But yes, much like San Andreas, Godzilla, Pacific Rim, X-Men: Last Stand, and many other Hollywood productions have delighted in doing, San Francisco gets destroyed once more.
This is getting old, guys. Please find some other city to continually fictionally destroy. We have our own worries here besides worldwide plagues and Magneto.