Line #1 YMMV/LifeAfterPeople


1	* AccidentalAesop:
2	** Maintenance and power workers play very important roles. We'd miss them if they were gone.
3	** Our domesticated pets are doomed to die without our presence. As such, it's important to give them at least some degree of freedom to learn about the world around them.
4	* HarsherInHindsight:
5	** Many real-life abandoned buildings shown in the episodes ended up being demolished in the following years.
6	** It's hard to see Georgia Dome caving in after it was closed and then demolished for real in 2017.
7	** Two million years after people, Cassini-Huygens causes life to bloom on Enceladus after crashing into it, which is both heartwarming and awesome since humanity managed to at least spread some of its biological legacy to another planet. Come 15th September 2017 in real life, and Cassini-Huygens was purposefully destroyed in Saturn's atmosphere for exactly that reason - Enceladus is considered one of the most (if not ''the'' most) likely place of the Solar System besides Earth to have life, and NASA did not want to have possible bacteria that had survived onboard the spacecraft contaminating it. So perhaps anything else living there will take the torch.
8	** While it's somewhat comforting to believe that the Notre Dame Cathedral, as shown in the "Bound & Buried" episode, could survive albeit just 80% of it thanks to water damage, in April 2019 it still couldn't escape, ironically, a fire that took out its spire, although much of the church is okay. The fire occurred during a renovation project.
9	** The Atlantic City boardwalk getting devastated is eerily similar to what happened during Hurricane Sandy.
10	** The entire premise of the show hits much closer to home in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. A pandemic with a 100% mortality rate would explain how humans all vanish without any initial physical infrastructural damage.
11	** The show depicts Bo, UsefulNotes/BarackObama's pet Portuguese Water Dog, surviving by foraging off fish from the Chesapeake Bay for at least 8 years after his owner's disappearance. In real life, Bo passed away in 2021, 4 years after Obama left office.
12	* HilariousInHindsight:
13	** In the "Last Supper", the narrator states that, as it collapses, Taipei 101 "is no longer the second tallest skyscraper". Since the episode's airing, several other skyscrapers have surpassed Taipei 101's height (including the One World Trade Center, Lotte World Tower, and the Shanghai Tower).
14	* InferredHolocaust: Not just the humans, but the animals that are bound to die in our absence. Some of them may even become ''extinct!''
15	* NauseaFuel: "Last Supper" (Season 2, Episode 4) features a Fort Worth, Texas supermarket that was abandoned for several months in 1999 [[WayPastTheExpirationDate with all the food still inside it]], and goes into great detail about what happens when you leave an entire grocery store's worth of food sitting unattended in the summertime in Texas.[[note]]After complaints from neighbors over the smell, the supermarket was fumigated and stripped to the bare walls.[[/note]]
16	* SpecialEffectFailure: It's clear that the show's CG effects budget wasn't exactly stellar, so most of the cheaper-looking renderings are excusable. But in the episode "Sin City Meltdown", when the wax figures are shown melting, it's so painfully obvious that they're just using smudge and liquefy tools for the scene, looking like they're straight out of Photoshop.
17	** The fireworks warehouses burning down and exploding in the episode "Holiday Hell" is even worse since the fire is a sprite covering the screen, which is too bizarre even by the show's standards.
18	** Sometimes, during an overview of an abandoned place, a human or two can be seen walking or standing in the distance.
19	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Military hardware is surprisingly explosion-free considering that gunpowder destabilizes after about a century. Similarly, ballistic missiles need constant monitoring to ensure that their fuel doesn't do them in, and pressure-activated devices like landmines can trigger even during a hard freeze. Unfortunately, not even a single one is seen exploding on-screen, aside from the ''K-129'' submarine missiles at the bottom of the sea. The series missed lots of opportunities here, especially considering that one episode revolves around military equipment and vehicles left behind in the wake of humanity's disappearance.
20	* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Besides the dust and water effects, the CGI for the decaying towns and cities is scarily photorealistic.

Context YMMV / LifeAfterPeople