A speeding planet gives humanity a countdown, and Carol & The End of the World spends it watching one woman who cannot bring herself to join the party.
What is Carol & The End of the World about?
The Canadian-American animated series follows a reserved, perpetually anxious woman navigating a world where nearly everyone else has abandoned restraint. As the countdown to a planetary collision ticks down, most of the population chases pleasure and impulse, leaving her position as an outlier increasingly conspicuous. Rather than lean into apocalyptic spectacle, the show turns its short window of time into an intimate character study, tracking how a person built for caution behaves when caution has stopped making sense to anyone around her. The animation style favors muted, everyday settings over disaster-movie scale, keeping the emotional register grounded even as the premise stays enormous.
About the cast
Martha Kelly voices the lead, with Kimberly Hebert Gregory and Mel Rodriguez rounding out a small ensemble that carries much of the series' tone through voice work rather than visual spectacle.
Context & significance
Dan Guterman directs the run, a joint Canadian and American production that arrived in 2023 inside a wave of animated series aimed at adult audiences willing to sit with discomfort rather than easy jokes. Its science-fiction framing is really a delivery system for questions about how people spend limited time, and the show has drawn a modest but attentive critical reception for keeping that focus narrow. The runtime is spread across roughly five hours of episodes, giving the premise room to sit with its central character rather than rush toward a conclusion, and the comedy genre tag mostly shows up in small, deadpan moments rather than broad gags.
Watching Carol & The End of the World on Ktime
Carol & The End of the World streams on K-Time with a free account login, presented with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles for viewers who prefer either option. K-Time's Farsi-first interface makes it easy for Persian-speaking audiences abroad to find animated series like this one alongside the rest of the catalog, whether they are browsing on a phone, a browser, or a living-room screen.