The is the fundamental flaw with this show, and probably why it won't have a second season. Electricity doesn't just stop working. Yes there are EMPs and high powered microwaves that can temporarily disrupt power grids. If you set off a nuke in the atmosphere, that probably will do it. People will get really sick though, and not all the electronics will be fried.
Even if you temporarily disrupt the power grid, and cyber-terrorists use that disruption to take it down, it's still repairable. They can't completely wipe out infrastructure, kill all the leaders and military, and remove any engineer who can possibly fix it.
Let's play along anyway. The national power grid doesn't work anymore. No coal, natural gas, solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, or nuclear power is available. Which is a really stupid premise because what? The sun stops working? The wind doesn't blow? Rivers stop flowing? Fine, whatever, we're playing along.
So here we are. No power whatsoever. Apparently batteries are out too because we forgot all chemistry and don't have books either. Even then, EVEN THEN, people know still how to make turbines, windmills, water wheels, harness magnets and copper wire, and attach bikes to a generator or a rechargeable battery.
I assume the show is implying that electricity everywhere stopped working. Like somehow electrons were disrupted or the magnetic field. If that was true, humans couldn't survive either. Electrons are integral parts of atoms. Stuff is made up of atoms. Without atoms, no stuff.
I'm not going to talk about the lack of guns, because What-Is-That-About.
Though even after my sizable reservations about the show, I'm still willing to watch. I even picked up Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling, which I'm told is a very similar plot. All electricity turns off suddenly and the chemistry of gunpowder is changed.
Just please, writers, please do a good job.
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