1. A child-only apocalypse that predates modern zombie TV
The core of “Miri” is still chilling: a world that looks like mid-century Earth, emptied of adults and haunted by feral kids and diseased “Grups” who’ve turned into shambling monsters. Trek never uses the word “zombie,” but the vibes are unmistakable, and they hit TV screens two years before Night of the Living Dead.
The specificity is what makes it effective. The brownstone streets, wrecked bikes, and half-collapsed classrooms all look familiar in a 1960s way, then the camera lingers just long enough on peeling wallpaper and overturned desks to really sell the abandonment.
On a 60th anniversary watch, there’s something eerily resonant about an artificial virus wiping out the adults and twisting the survivors. It plays like a proto-pandemic tale that we today interpret very differently than viewers did in 1966.
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