TV Titanics returns! So decided to tap
into a zombie fueled bit of goofy because...well I really cannot sit
through The Walking Dead. So damn chatty and not enough zombie skull
cracking. Stop reminiscing of things and places gone by,Grimes!!!
Okay moving on or this will be a Walking Dead rant. Instead let's
talk about 3 years after the zompocalypse tearing the US a new one
and the survivors are picking up the pieces. Charged with a mission
to journey through zombie infested towns to get a cure to California,
our reluctant heroes trudge on. This is Z Nation Season 1.
Knew we shouldn't have eaten at Red Robin. |
Produced by The Asylum (Almighty
Thor, 2012: Ice Age, Battle of Los Angeles, Nazis at the Center of
the Earth, Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies, Rise of the Zombies, Social
Nightmare and Alone for Christmas) home of the modern day
mockbuster with sneaky titles similar to the features they are
attempting to cash in on got in bed with Sy-Fy to
create a series to either rival or simply competition in the
zompocalypse stories, films and TV already out there. 3 years have
occurred since the outbreak, The US is a wasteland of consumer
products, bands of vehicles, good decent folk, raiders and even the
odd gathering of cannibals.
RAD ZOMBIE!!!! |
For a
small group of survivors, a Special Forces Lt. Hammond (Harold
Perrineau of Romeo + Juilet, Lost, Blade the Series, Transit, Sons of
Anarchy, Zero Dark Thirty, Constantine, Goliath and Criminal
Minds)
and his prisoner Murphy (Keith Allan of Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, Star Trek: Enterprise, Air Collision, Social
Nightmare, Zombie Night and Rise of the Zombies)
have fled from one of the major infestation sites at the lost of
Hammond's men covering their escape. Arriving in Upstate New York,
Hammond meets a group of survivors made up of civilians and some
National Guard, he tells these people he needs help to bring Murphy
to California.
Captain
Garrett (Tom Everett Scott of That Thing You Do,
An American Werewolf in Paris, Dead Man on Campus Bloodline, Enemies
Closer and The Last Word)
and Lt. Warren (Kellita Smith of The Bernie Mac
Show, King's Ransom, Feel the Noise, Conspiracy X, The First Family
and Z Nation)
are iffy about this as they gather up stragglers from their crew when
the entire encampment is attacked by water logged zombies popping out
of the lake. Knowing their settlement has been completely overrun,
our small group decides to hoof it with Hammond and Murphy.
You goin' down, cameraman!!! |
Joining
on this zany quest is drug chemist Doc (Russell
Hodgkinson of Big Fish, We Go Way Back, ZMD: Zombies of Mass
Destruction, Mystery Case Files: The 13th
Skull, Grimm, 21 & Over, A Bit of Bad Luck and 7 Minutes)
Ballbat wielding melee momma Addy (Anatasia
Baranova of 7th Heaven,
Veronica Mars, Rise: Blood Hunter, The Darkness II, Yaiba: Ninja
Gaiden Z and Z Nation)
her crackshot boyfriend Mack (Michael Welch of
Star Trek: Insurrection, Hey Arnold!, Joan of Arcadia, Stargate SG-1,
Day of the Dead, The Riches, Twillight, Unrequited and Criminal
Minds).
Meanwhile
in the Antartic, NSA Communications Specialist Simon or Citizen Z (DJ
Qualls of Road Trip, Cherry Falls, The New Guy, Comic Book Villains,
Last Day of Summer, Supernatural, Perception and Z Nation)
has complete access to every existing satellite, relay station,
cameras and social media and no authority to tell him he can't do
that, he leads the team to locations that last he checked have
anything from supplies to less stinky fleshbags roaming about. His
task is to not go mad from loneliness and keep the survivors up to
date on weather changes, zombie uprise and any human elements that
may be completely bat shit crazy.
Along
through Philly our crew encounters a young woman name of Cassandra
(Pisay Pao of Simply Fobulous, Your Lucky Day,
Door to Door, NCIS: Los Angeles, and Z Nation)
left in a cage surrounded by the deaders and she joins up with them
on their moderately insane quest. With limited resources, raiders,
zombies and freak weather our people have their work cut out for
them.
Will
the team get Murphy to California?? What awaits them at the next
town or even next state?
With
shows like The Walking Dead, The Strain, iZombie and Fear the Walking
Dead, it is nice to see a show not taking itself serious all the time
but creating new strains of zombie like these speed freak zombies
that were taking massive doses of pills, rad zombies thanks to a
power plant unattended. The characters are diverse, the story
lines can have some funny episodes but they also include some of the
more darker aspects of the human psyche. Any Zombie Post Apocalypse
fans should enjoy this. I hesitate to shoot this through a time
hole so the Incognito Cinema Warriors XP crowd can enjoy this but in
the year 20XX, zombies so y'know too much art imitating life. I'll
just send them Zone of the Dead instead.
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