Original premise: Liv is a doctor is accidentally turned into a zombie. She becomes a medical examiner in order to have access to brains. After discovering eating the brains of murder victims gives her flashbacks and moments leading up to the victim’s death, she helps a detective to solve crimes by pretending to be psychic. A side effect of the brain eating is that she may temporarily acquire skills or idiosyncrasies of the victim. Meanwhile, Blaine, another zombie, is turning rich people into zombies to extort them in return for brains of people he’s killing.
How it went: Pretty much everyone in the main cast is a zombie (or were-zombie), there’s an evil corporation, an entire city full of zombies, a good guy private military contractor that turns into a bad guy private military contractor, and etc. that I won’t spoil any further. And eating a brain pretty much makes you take on that person’s entire personality wholesale.
The thing is, it was great! It ended pretty strong without wearing out its welcome or getting too absurd plot-wise. Meanwhile everyone in the cast is clearly having fun with the over-the-top, flanderised personality mechanics, and it’s just fun to watch.
My all time favorite guilty pleasure, as it’s very easy and light fun to watch.
It became even more a favorite because I watched it while I just arrived in Vancouver. One night I’m watching an episode where someone looks up at a building balcony through binoculars and I had to rewind Immediately and pause, pull down the blinds to my right, and I see that same damned balcony right across the street in front of me.
That was quite awesome and made the show a favorite with me, I’m constantly looking for known places
iZombie
Original premise: Liv is a doctor is accidentally turned into a zombie. She becomes a medical examiner in order to have access to brains. After discovering eating the brains of murder victims gives her flashbacks and moments leading up to the victim’s death, she helps a detective to solve crimes by pretending to be psychic. A side effect of the brain eating is that she may temporarily acquire skills or idiosyncrasies of the victim. Meanwhile, Blaine, another zombie, is turning rich people into zombies to extort them in return for brains of people he’s killing.
How it went: Pretty much everyone in the main cast is a zombie (or were-zombie), there’s an evil corporation, an entire city full of zombies, a good guy private military contractor that turns into a bad guy private military contractor, and etc. that I won’t spoil any further. And eating a brain pretty much makes you take on that person’s entire personality wholesale.
The thing is, it was great! It ended pretty strong without wearing out its welcome or getting too absurd plot-wise. Meanwhile everyone in the cast is clearly having fun with the over-the-top, flanderised personality mechanics, and it’s just fun to watch.
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My all time favorite guilty pleasure, as it’s very easy and light fun to watch.
It became even more a favorite because I watched it while I just arrived in Vancouver. One night I’m watching an episode where someone looks up at a building balcony through binoculars and I had to rewind Immediately and pause, pull down the blinds to my right, and I see that same damned balcony right across the street in front of me.
That was quite awesome and made the show a favorite with me, I’m constantly looking for known places