The Walking Dead, Timothy Morton’s Hyperobjects and Lars Von Trier’s film Melancholia, all open with the end of the world as their starting points to begin their narrative, aiming to demonstrate how the end of contemporary time, as familiar to both the characters in the show, as well as Morton and Trier’s audiences (us), are forced to adapt, alter, and change the way in which we perceive the world, and act in order to survive in our new conditions. The following essay, utilizing the apocalyptic theme