From filmmaker Gregg Araki and sex columnist Karley Sciortino, as well as executive producers Steven Soderbergh and Greg Jacobs, the 10-episode, half-hour Starz comedy series Now Apocalypse is a surreal and wild coming-of-age story that follows Ulysses (Avan Jogia) and his friends – Ford (Beau Mirchoff), Carly (Kelli Berglund) and Severine (Roxane Mesquida) – as they explore identity, sexuality and love in the often strange city of Los Angeles. As his premonitory dreams become more troubling and seemingly apocalyptic, Ulysses begins to wonder if something dark and dangerous is going on, or if the weed he’s been …

Alien Lizards, provocative pansexual revelry, undertones of doom, and a fresh-faced cast of rising stars -- yep, it must be Gregg Araki! The filmmaker behind many a cult classics brings his flair to TV in the new series Now Apocalypse and it's every kind of crazy you'd expect. Araki brings the playful, candy-colored queerness and decadent weirdness of his films to the small screen with the new half-hour sex comedy/alien invasion sci-fi created executive produced by Steven Soderbergh that launches (appropriately) on Starz this weekend. An essential auteur of New Queer Cinema (the filmmaking …