iZombie (2015)

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   Season 1: iZombie takes the broad strokes of Gwen's character from the Roberson-Allred comics series and aside from comic booky transitions that borrow from Allred's art style, jettisons everything else in favor of a crime-solving model with Gray's Anatomy-style narration (which I dislike), even going so far as renaming the lead Liv Moore. I chafed at this at first, but through Season 1, the concept and characters grew on me, perhaps because it has shades of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. There is a strong thematic vibe running through the series the writers don't state overtly, and that's mental health. Being a zombie is akin to depression, and when Liv eats the brains of murder victims and absorbs their memories, she also gets their particular pathologies. People who think they've seen zombies think them delusions, and so on. And yet, the show is amusing, filled with puns and fun villains. The theme certainly elevates even the mystery-of-the-week when, perhaps, you'd rather be seeing more of the larger zombie arc, which goes all sorts of crazy places. By the end of Season 1, I was primed for the second.
   
   Season 2: iZombie Season 2 is the season when the show goes foodie and might make you want to buy a recipe book for brains. The food doesn't just look good, its clever chosen based on the murder or themes of the episode. What you liked of the first season is simply amplified, changes in status quo taking the story in crazy new directions, becoming more and more serialized as we go forward, and pushing us to a mad, crashing finale. Comparing it to other WB shows based on DC Comics properties, iZombie's writing is actually quite a bit smarter (by the makers of Veronica Mars, after all) and the acting stronger. So the WB tics, like repetitive dialog for distracted viewers, is much less prevalent and annoying. 6 years 8 months ago

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