iZombie, a zombie series for people who do not really like the zombie genre. I am not a fan of The Walking Dead and I do not generally appreciate zombie guts and gore, but if you can make me laugh its all good. My daughters recommended iZombie to me and after about 3 episodes I was hooked.
The premise is that there are zombies among us but if they are well fed, spray tanned and properly coifed you would never recognize them as the un-dead. The main character is Liv, a newly minted doctor who had her life all figured out. Surgeon, check; hot fiance, check; awesome best friend, check. Perfect life, not so fast. One night at a yacht party there were some funky drugs being passed around and before you know the ship is blowing up and zombies are making a mess of things. Liv gets scratched and when she wakes up on the beach she is deathly pale, has a white streak in her hair and is oddly starving for brains. So her saga begins.
She ends up getting a job in the coroner's office because of the steady supply of brains and her co-worker quickly catches her having a snack. But he's on board in keeping her secret and even begins trying to come up with a cure for zombism. Liv discovers that she takes on the personality of the person whose brain she has eaten and suddenly she's a magician, a gambler or a dominatrix. Whoever she is channeling is usually very different than her true self. With the visions she has while on each brain she is spurred to begin helping a local detective solve crimes.
The dialog is clever and often funny. Watching Liv come up with new brain recipes is one of my favorite little bits of each show. The show isn't all fun and games and there are some tense moments but overall this is more Zombieland than Night Of The Living Dead. I must say I have binged the whole series and am anxiously awaiting the new season!
~Michelle, Circulation
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