iZombie: Episode 1- "Pilot" Review
As a HUGE fan of writer Rob Thomas and his Veronica Mars series, I was very excited to watch the pilot episode for iZombie, which I have to say, was better than I expected. It's very much a mix of Warm Bodies (showing the human and compassionate side of the zombies), Veronica Mars (with a strong female lead, slightly dark humor and smart writing) and Angel (where Cordelia would get visions and Angel would solve the crimes, here Olivia gets memories when she eats brains and she helps Clive solve crimes).
Basically, a medical student goes to a party where bad drugs are given out prompting a zombie outbreak. She get's scratched by a zombie and winds up waking up in a body bag as a zombie herself. She trades in her job at the hospital for a job at the morgue and breaks off her pending engagement for fear of passing on the zombie gene to her fiance (Major). The only person who knows what she really is her boss (Dr. Ravi) at the morgue who has noticed parts of brains go missing and catches her in the act of heating them up and adding them to her noodles. However, the downside to her eating brains is that she gets the memories and characteristics of the person she eats (in this episode she becomes a kleptomaniac and can speak Romanian). They convinced the cop (Clive) who's looking for information that she's psychic and able to see visions which helps him solve crimes.
Overall, I really enjoyed both the human aspects of the zombie life (as opposed to Walking Dead where they are just mindless drones) and the strong female lead (who I didn't even realize played Vivian Scully in Masters of Sex!). I'm very excited to see where this series leads and next week's episode in which the preview showed that Olivia may not be the only zombie around!
It's good to know that even zombies have to deal with work, love lives and nosy family members who think they know what's best!
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