2019-02-26

iZombie - Season 1 Commentary

When I saw the title, I thought it has some resemblance to the Apple products. Yeah, it doesn't.

E1 Pilot
We follow the live of a young doctor named Olivia Moore who was a medical resident that somehow turned into zombie. The story revolves fast, we just had a glimpse of her live before she turned, that she went to a boat party, and a new drug made people into zombies.

After the incident, she turned from a cheerful person to a gloomy one, with gothic appearance with white hair and extremely pale skin. She even didn't marry her major fiance, and took a job in a morgue.

With her being a zombie, beside her appearance, she started to lose some usual human needs such as eating and sleeping. She also got an ability that made her absorb the skill and behavior of the person from the brain she ate. This leads her to be a detective assistant.

The story has a cool pace, they don't use zombie movie routine as the zombie horde overrun the city or something. They just focused on Liv's live. For the fast pace, the beginning of the movie was a series of a short cut and short dialogue, as if the movie just "hey, these are some facts that you need to know about the series, eat it whole!" There were some that just doesn't seem to be natural but there was also many comical scene, stating that this was not something to be taken that serious. 

For this pilot, I'm in.

E2 Brother, Can You Spare a Brain?
There is another zombie, and, he was the one that invited Liv to the boat party. He started going out, I thought he was just going to eat some woman\s brain, but as he also played in a drug dealing system, he turned the woman into a zombie and made her pay for the brains that he would take from Liv's workplace.
Will he make a zombie followers? Out of living people? Zombies in this universe don't seem to have disabilities though.

Liv was once again got into a murder case, as detective Babineaux said the murder was the victim's wive. Detective still believe that Liv is a psychic and get her sniffing around.

The part where she could just sneak into (the victim) Javier's basement is somewhat ridiculous. I wouldn't let my basement which is also my partner's art storage room unlock.
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This post will grow as I continue on the series.

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