Leftovers

The Leftovers are a reminder that it's not only movies that have tapped into the Crisis. This HBO series shows a post-9/11 world of something that looked a lot like the Rapture. Instead of leaving behind the literally damned, the people remaining only feel like they are the most unfortunate of history. It could be called survivor's guilt, except that nobody knows whether those taken should be envied or pitied. And that's where it starts.

Damon Lindehof is showrunner, which makes sense since Lost was an early (2004) example  of this the-world-is-ending-we-think genre. A few people from there then showed up in Flashforward, in which the titular event had a similar feel to what happens in The Leftovers.

There's also Defiance, a different sort of post-apocalyptic world: What starts as an unintentional alien invasion turns into an accidentally trashed Earth with scattered pockets of survivors. St. Louis, Missouri, is the site of one such area where aliens and humans manage to get along...well enough, anyway.

For anyone willing to ponder what might have been, take a look at The Remnants. Screenwriter John August (Go, Big Fish, Corpse Bride) spent his time during the 2007 WGA strike working on a web series. (Evidently that didn't violate the Pencils Down rule, as a web series wasn't covered by the union contract. Or something.) Only about 12 minutes but it's good, and definitely the starting point of a Crisis series.

Plus there's Under the Dome, The Last Ship, The Whispers, Falling Skies ... All of these are of these are from the last 10 years, many of them are currently in production. Click through any of those on IMDB and another one or two Crisis series will appear.

Someone - several someones, in fact - recognize the appeal of the end times.