La Brea

The cast is multicultural with actors of color playing characters that don't dive into stereotypes. For instance, Dr. Sam Velez is a hands-on medic from the armed forces who quickly falls into the leadership role among the survivors. Ty Coleman is a therapist, but is facing mental disturbances of his own, leading him to feel suicidal. Even though he is suffering from a mental issue, his pain does show that he is a fractured man with a huge capacity for empathy. Scott Israni (Rohan Mirchandaney) is an annoying slacker who claims to use marijuana for his anxiety. Dr. Sophia Nathan (Virginie Laverdure) is a scientist with Homeland Security and while couple Tony Greene (Pacharo Mzembe) and Billy Fisher (Stephen Lopez) are just introduced without much backstory as of yet, they look like they are also characters that act against type for men of color. Tony and Billy are also a non-white interracial couple, and interracial couples that don't include white characters aren't often shown on television. There are other secondary characters who are also people of color, but haven't been fully introduced yet.

The show also introduces one of the few disabled main characters on television. Izzy Harris (Zyra Gorecki) is a physically disabled character properly portrayed by a disabled actress. The character provides a meaningful portrayal of disability that isn't rooted in stereotype or played by an abled actor. Thankfully, Gorecki can bring her own lived experience to the character.

Major destruction, wild animal attacks (with one attack resulting in a death), gunshots, a scene when a character nearly dies by suicide.

Exclamatory uses of God ("Oh my God," "Jesus"), swear words ("hell," "ass"), use of the word "crazy," which could be seen as ableist.

One scene featuring a character drinking from a flask. Descriptions of being "high," taking medicinal marijuana, and drinking. A car is shown with a duffel bag full of heroin.