Who doesn't want to watch Sue Johnston biting someone's face off?
For the sixth-form teens in the fictional town of Dambury, life is boring. That is, until there’s an outbreak of a lab-born virus that threatens to wipe out the entire population. No prizes for guessing Wheatley’s inspiration – butThis disease has an entirely different – and more literal – bite as it targets the elderly population and turns them into ravenous, near-indestructible, zombie-like versions of themselves. And when it comes to their tastes, the younger, the better.
A personal favourite is Lewis Gribbens’s Stef, a character so unsure of himself, he relies on the affirmations of an Andrew Tate-esque online figure called Clarence to try and find some sense of self. Hidden in the shadows of popular best mate Charlie , and hopelessly lusting after Charlie’s ex-girlfriend Kelly, Stef is so blinded by his own low self-esteem that he’s oblivious to the fact there’s someone who actually fancies him in Finn – the group outcast who is far too smart for her own good sometimes.
The older cast, especially Dobson as Kelly’s grandmother Janine, look like they’re having a blast as these pseudo-zombies. And Robert Lindsay gives a stand-out performance as the trusted and reliable Morgan – an armchair conspiracy theorist who has taken the parentless Finn under his wing.What’s really interesting is Wheatley’s new slant on the age old zombie tropes.
There are some plots though that are just left dangling like innards in the breeze. T’Nia Miller is woefully underused as Charlie’s mother , providing little more than a consistently dazed look and mumbles despite her character having a prominent domestic abuse storyline.as a show worth sticking with.
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