Review of Netflix Series: iZombie

I've not always been a fan of horror. Too much of it centers around gore and spraying blood and splattering brains. Or, it is too realistic. I really don't need my sleep or sanity disturbed by terrors of horrific individuals that get their kicks in mutilation and murder. It just isn't my thing. But now and again, something pops up in the horror genre than intrigues me. Such was the case with iZombie.

As an aside, my town actually has a 5K Zombie Run at our local Ren Faire Castle. I've not done it. I had considered it seriously this year. But, alas, they canceled it due to Covid. Ugh. Covid ruins everything.

I never expected such a quirky spin this series took. I loved the idea that it was an ordinary girl that had something monumental occur as a fluke that forever changed her life. And though she became a Zombie (I won't spoil with how this came to be), it was more like an illness that she had to deal with. Not that it was an "illness" - she was in fact a Zombie, but how she dealt with it.

She learned to compensate for her issues. And she was brilliant at how she learned to spin the negative into a positive. It caught my attention. It kept my attention. I was propelled from one episode to another. I actually made it all the way to the end of the series - which was 5 seasons totaling 71 episodes. I invested a lot of life in this one. The series originally ran from 2015 to 2019. I came into it after the entire series banked on Netflix. It was binge time!

(Photo source: iZombie Fandom Wiki)

Liv was a rosy-cheeked, disciplined, over-achieving medical resident who had her life path completely mapped out, until the night she attended a party that unexpectedly turned into a zombie feeding frenzy. Afterward, she became part zombie. She works at a coroner's office to give her access to the brains she must eat to survive... (read more at iZombie Fandom Wiki

Now the series could not have made it without her side kick in the morgue, Ravi Chakrabarti. He makes a hilarious cohort and accomplice.

And of course another stellar player in the whole saga is Blaine Debeers. He is a character that keeps you guessing.

And of course, there is always a police man poking into things. And iZombie brings us Clive Babineaux.

(Photo source: iZombie Fandom Wiki)

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All in all, if you're looking for something that's a quirky spin on the Zombie genre, iZombie fills the bills.

This series was so wildly popular it has it's own Fandom wiki.

There are also Comics on iZombie. It's a bit of a chicken or the egg as to which came first. But this medium exists and wanted to share it for those who fancy comics

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