The main character Liv Moore dies and comes back as a zombie. She changes her entire way of life and starts to work in a morgue where she can get all the brains she needs. Every time she eats a brain, she gets visions and abilities or properties from the deceased and with those she helps a detective solve cases where those original brain owners were involved in.
Pretty straightforward synopsis and if you can accept the "eat brain, get visions/abilities" premise of this show you're in for a great treat.
Most of all the writing is consistent. The plots aren't stupidity driven as they are on major network shows these days, nor are the plots dragged out with nonsense you don't care about.
The acting is believable, the actors play likable characters and those have depth. They aren't cardboard characters or dull stereotypes, they all have their backstory and purpose. While this is an adaption of a comic there are apparently issues to overcome.
For example filling the time that you have in a TV format with dialogues. I haven't read the comics and can't comment on how faithful the series is overall but it definitely delivers the concept very well without having to know the comic.
Comedy is rather subtle here but usually very sweet. The humour comes often from the brains Liv eats and are situational.
Matching that comedy you get here and there fitting popculture references, like a very dark humorous, self ironic and absolutely brilliant Fight Club reference.
Especially shows with zombies are more and more frowned up on these days. People are slowly fed up with stories involving zombies. But this one takes a different approach.
As of yet (S01E10) there is no humans vs zombies, no apocalypse, just a how does a zombie try to live a normal, daily live kind of situation. Spiced up with brain induced antics, murder cases and a plot involving the commercial exploitation of zombies, in a way at least. ;) Each episode involves therefore a new case, a case that usually in some way is linked to the overall plot and therefore a new piece to the puzzle of the show.
On the other hand, because there's no apocalypse here, this show is not an action driven show. Nor is it a show where you can completely shut off your brain but I'd say it would work as a calm down kind of show.
You had an exhausting/stressful day at work, school, university, etc. and need to calm down, get your minds off things in the evening? Watch iZombie. Due to the aforementioned, it is a rather lighthearted not too serious show but it definitely is very enjoyable.
Personally this show, after the sad and undeserved cancellation of Forever, is my most favourite airing show.
Since it is a lighthearted show that doesn't take itself very serious at times - in smart ways nontheless - it may not please everyone. The cast seems a tad too young but I wouldn't go as far as to say there are miscast persons on this show as there are on other, bigger shows. When you dislike the synopsis, or think it sounds cheesy, that may be your right to say or think, but I think you misjudge this TV show very much and miss out on an incredibly enjoyable show that doesn't insult your intelligence with plots that get more and more ludicrous with each episode. Something bigger networks try more and more these days with each new show.
Charming shows like these are sadly a dying kind.
The first two seasons were awesome, the third was ok, but then the show went downhill until this very meh ending.
Oh man, I dunno, this was a bit of a wet noodle ending, but oh well, the entirety of season 4 and 5 matches that. I'm disappointed in that, but there's nothing surprising there I guess. All in all, I loved this show some time back, but it all turned topsy turvy a while back, even so, this episode is the title personified, nothing bad at all happens, everyone survives, even the "bad guys" (possibly), and lets be honest Blaine is quite the psycopathic killer even though we routinely are led to forget it.
I wasn't a big fan of this finale. It wasn't 100% bad, but I feel they focused too much on fake deaths to surprise us... and then that final sequence was dumb and out of place. With the amount of things they had going on, I thought they were going to make an "action movie" of sorts for the finale, with the characters making that last effort together. It would have been much cooler to see... but instead, they faked Liv's death randomly, cut to 10 years later and we didn't even see anything.
Great show, awesome cast, meh final season/episode.
This episode crushed me! Such a crazy episode that will give you every variation of every emotion every next second. Great acting, excellent season, and a brilliant TV series.
I am devastated that this show is being canceled. But it was a good ride. Really thankful for the Asian representation in mainstream media. I’m sad to say goodbye, but wish the FOB team the best of luck in their future endeavors! (Yes, even Constance Wu..)
It's garbage TV, but it's the best garbage TV ever.
You'll enjoy it because they break kayfabe.
One of the most perfect television series you could ever see. To this day I have yet to witness a better series finale than the unpredictable, hugely satisfying conclusion this show offered.
I fucking love The Shield.
Anyone looking to start this show, seasons 1 & 2 are great. Season 3 starts to take a nose dive but still watchable. But season 4 basically goes off the rails, not even worth investing 22 hours of your life. And season 5, metoo movement has basically fucked the show up it’s ass; it’s made the acting so bad it’s not even funny (it’s like the actors read the script & said fuck this I’m just going to go through the motions of acting and hope I don’t have to renew my contract). It’s compete waste of time (I’m on episode 5 & not a single story line has progressed). So watch season 1 & 2 (maybe 3). After that don’t even bother.
Season one was good, season 2 meh, and season three ugh... give it up - typical american TV that runs out of a decent story-line and just gets stupid.
In short awesome.
I had my expectation & also worried that it would let me down considering numerous failed reboot. Mortal Kombat(2019) delivers what it promised & good number of fan service cameo of 90s movie. The way they changed & applied new sequences to old story line is simply creative and amazing.
It didn't fail to bring me the nostalgia of the old movie & sophistication of 21st century. It may have been created for fans but it doesn't fall short as standalone movie. I wish they'll bring out the sequel of this movie as early as possible.
FML I know I went to see Fast and Furious and I expected to see some ridiculous scenes but they sent a car into space to knock out a satellite dish . Were the writers high?
Did Dom and his brother have different mums or Dads as that wasn't explained at all
The original Fast and Furious was the best and the more they make the more they need to outdo the last one.
F10 will have time travel and dinosaurs in it.
Ends on cliff hanger. Starts new ep. 5 minutes in its good. next 40 minutes its quite disappointing. Ends on cliff hanger. Repeat.
When you watch a movie and wish that it went for another 2 hours - fantastic.
Really liked this episode pity I had to illegally download it due to paramount pulling it from Netflix in the UK at the last minute…nobody in the uk wants another streaming service
They're keeping the "Let's fly??!"
Still Korny with a capital "K."
Man, where to start with this.
I guess I'll start with the good.
The set designs for this were on point. The police headquarters and the mansion were very well done and very faithful to the games. However the train set up looked horribly underdone.
The makeup effects for the infected was actually pretty creepy. It felt like a fairly realistic version of what people who are sick and slowly getting sicker would look like. Their bones starting to protrude more, hair loss, saggy skin, and just overall sickly. I really wish we would have gotten more of this and less of the CGI. The few practical effects we got, I actually enjoyed.
Speaking of CGI, it was absolutely horrendous in this movie. It felt like they were trying to invoke the same exact CGI used in the original games but it just didn't work here. The birkin monster, the dog, the licker and the truck crash just looked horrible. Even crappy CGI nowadays is pretty good and this looks like something an amateur did 15 years ago in their basement.
I really feel only Claire had any really character development. All the other characters barely had any time to flesh out and felt like hollow imitations of their game counterparts. Especially Leon. That's twice now that a resident evil movie has been attempted with probably the most well-known character from the games and somehow managed to completely screw him up. That's not on the actor, he did about as well as he could with just a really bad interpretation of Leon Kennedy.
Unfortunately it seems like they tried to fit multiple storylines into one movie. They really should have broken this up into multiple movies, or honestly, a TV series. We barely spent any time with the infected or the mutations. Nothing in this movie felt like a real threat because each thing was dead soon after it was introduced. Rarely does a movie feel like it has too much and too little at the same time. This accomplice that feat well.
Now the suspenseful parts it did, IE the girl running off into the woods, the girl in the orphanage, the infected at the gate, and the zombie's swarming and attacking at the mansion was actually very well done. I absolutely loved those parts and wish we would have gotten so much more of that.
I appreciate that this movie tried to keep it somewhat faithful to the original material, however, the other resident evil movie spent way more time with the zombies and with the mutations and made each feel like a legitimate threat. None of the creatures in this one felt scary or threatening because they didn't have time to.
I liked parts of it well enough to hope that they actually go through with a sequel and hopefully in the sequel, they spend more time fleshing out characters, spend more on their CGI, and make the creatures involved feel like legitimate threats.
CGI: 3 out of 10
Acting: 5 out of 10
Set Design: 8 out of 10
Practical Effects: 8 out of 10
Rewatch: 4 out of 10
The sound effects are eerie and scary. The camera work is excellent. The performance is pure. The show really works for me.
