Review Guide:
Episode 1.01 Pilot - Review & Advanced Preview
Episode 1.02 Fracking Zombies - Review
Episode 1.03 Philly Feast - Review
Episode 1.04 Full Metal Zombie - Review
Episode 1.05 Home Sweet Zombie - Review
Episode 1.06 Resurrection Z - Review
Episode 1.07 Welcome to the FU-Bar - Review
Episode 1.08 Zunami - Review
Episode 1.09 Die Zombie Die...Again - Review
Episode 1.10 Going Nuclear Review
Episode 1.11 Sisters of Mercy Review
Episode 1.12 Murphy's Law - Review
Episode 1.13 Doctor of the Dead (Season Finale) - Review
Z Nation - Philly Feast - Review
The First couple of minutes introduced us to a scene of Cassandra's past. She was a part of this "cult" that lured in men looking for company. She would take them to the bedroom, and whilst they are distracted she would taser them. She is effectively bate. It was refreshing to see something about one of our characters pasts since we don't really know much about any of them. I hope Z Nation can explore more of other characters in later episodes, just to give us a brief outline of what their life was like prior to the outbreak.
The team is driving through the town of Philly when they come across liberty bell which is strapped down onto a truck. They decide to take advantage of a car with gas in it and use it as a secondary car. About a minute later as begin to drive off Warren, who is driving the car with the bell on swerves to avoid another car, sending the bell rolling down. It provided us with one of the best scenes from the whole series. Who knew a watching a bell destroy the zombies would be so satisfying? I do have to appreciate the level of entertainment this show brings, it may be cheesy, but the different ways of killing zombies are very intriguing to watch, making me wonder what they will come up with next.
The team decide to stop and scavenge for food. Addy and Mac set off to find a radio in a bid to contact Citizen Z. The rest of the group split off into groups of threes to scavenge for supplies. Nothing interesting really happened, until Addy came across a police car, she got the radio to work and managed to contact our good old friend Citizen Z. The conversation between them lasted a mere 10 seconds as she got taken by the men looking for Cassandra. Just before that we saw the scene with Citizen Z burping, it was such a pointless scene and not needed. I don't want to spend my time watching someone burp on screen. Citizen Z continues to get on my nerves as a couple of minutes after she got taken it was just him repeating the same thing he says every episode over and over. If I hear "delta X-Ray come in" again in the next episode I may have to mute my volume. Can they not think of anything else for him to say? How about "Addy are you there" since she told him her name. He needs to drop the military terms.
The main chunk of the episode was spent hatching a plan to rescue Addy from Tobias Campbell, who is the head of this new group. Cassandra informs the group who these men are and how dangerous they are. She tells them this whilst being threatened at Gunpoint by Warren, who is demanding answers. This also felt a bit unnecessary. Why wouldn't she just tell them? If she hated her previous group so much and she obviously knew the group would go after Addy why not just tell them, instead of running away. Anyway, to cut a long story short, Cassandra's old group are cannibals that lure people, mainly men in and then tase them and then tie them up in this room ready to be eaten.
They eat them whilst they are still alive, so they don't become infected. After, now knowing the whereabouts of Addy the team head out to get her. They fail in an attempt to keep the group intact as they end up having to swap Cassandra for Addy after Addy was being held at knifepoint and Tobias's men pull out a 50 caliber machine gun. 10k I think could have killed Tobias though before he killed Addy as he has a great shot and it would've saved so much time. Once Addy is safe and secure, they decide they can't leave Cassandra so head back to her, this time with a well thought out plan. They strap a megaphone to the top of the car and play music to attract the zombies with the help from Citizen Z, who gets the music playing. Doc infiltrates the camp disguised as a man looking for woman companionship. Cassandra get’s offered to him. It was a very funny scene between them two when they were making sex noises in the trailer. They didn't even get any privacy with Tobias standing right outside. After thinking Cassandra had tasered Doc, he and his right-hand man enter, only for Tobias to be tasered IN THE MOUTH, which must have hurt. The other guy gets shot in the head by doc with one of the smallest pistols I've ever seen.
The remaining members of our group are in the truck with 10k just outside the camp on a ridge with his sniper. They breach the gate with the truck with a horde of zombie’s right behind them. The man on the 50 caliber has the worst aim ever; he looked like an idiot missing nearly all his shots when he could have easily killed all of them. 10k takes him out anyway with one of the greatest
He hit him in the mouth. The bullet went through his mouth and then through this small gap in a wall and then hit a gasoline canister and exploded. It was an unbelievably good shot. I thought their plan was solid and worked to the best outcome. They all then leave on the truck in one piece. I do have to say I would've liked the idea of a big bad villain in the series to keep things interesting, maybe there will be, but one thing's for sure it won't be Tobias. Z Nation wouldn't be the same if Citizen Z didn't provide us with yet another one of his cheesy speeches. I don't know why they bother, to me he just looks stupid and saying a load of rubbish that I don't really care about. I even just quit watching it halfway through his speech, it was that irritating. Please, enough of the cheesiness.
Summary
I dare say I actually enjoyed most of the episode. It was much better than the previous two episodes. There was a variety of action, and the show explored some backstory to one of our characters which was nice to see. I hope the show can go up from here and not return to what the pilot was like, a mess.
I thought it was better in some ways, too. I totally agree about Citizen Z. Most annoying character. I was just wishing he would get eaten by zombies, but unfortunately, I think we're stuck with him for the whole series. I wish they had chosen better music for that big scene. I was expecting some kind of rock or metal music.
ReplyDeleteI liked that they really went all out for the gross out scenes with slicing up live people to eat. The bell scene was cute, too.
It's kind of like this show has some of what's missing with Walking Dead, but they still don't have it right yet. Too much cheeze. Maybe if they tone some of that down, particularly with Citizen Z, but we'll have to give it some time. And yeah, if I hear Delta Fox Xray one more time or whatever he's saying, can we please let a zombie get in there and eat him? The dog would be a better character.
The music they played was kind of your stereotypical action sequence music. I wish Citizen Z would actually do something rather than just sit in his seat all the time shouting things. He could go outside in the blizzard which would be entertaining.
ReplyDeleteYeah they do need to tone down the cheese , the walking dead isn't very creative when it comes to killing zombies which is put I can appreciate from this show. However I still thing storywise and character wise The Walking Dead is better, plus it is less cheesy.
I admit to laughing out loud at the rolling bell scene. it was a real "sharknado" moment. lol
ReplyDeleteBurping scene was disgusting, and that's saying something in a zombie show.
That bell scene was probably one of the funniest scenes on this show, who knew a bell would be such a killer weapon?
ReplyDeleteI don't what they wanted to accomplish with Citizen Z sitting there burping it just put off , maybe they thought it would be funny.
It is very different from the walking dead , and I agree that it is taking a step further than where The Walking Dead is at the moment. I prefer the different ways they kill zombies on this show compared to TWD. As for the cannibals I would have preferred to see them in more than one episode as it felt that they wrapped it up a bit to quickly.
ReplyDeleteWell it will be hard to get that dog to do something. ..I have always owned huskies and Malamutes. Sled dogs do four things...they sit, sleep, eat and pull and are not overly affectionate. They were specifically bred not to listen so you are watching a highly trained sled dog. Do not expect more.
ReplyDeletewell, they wrapped up the Cannibals scenes just like TWD Comics, where that storyline was wrapped up in only 6 issues, real fast...
ReplyDeleteyesh, i agree TWD is different then Z Nation because TWD is a One Of A kind TV show and it will never be Duplicated...this is just a show to keep us occupied till TWD finally starts...i doubt i will continue watching Z after TWD starts but in the meantime, it's alot of Fun watching it, lol...☺...
Ah I didn't know that it was only a one issue thing (haven't read the comics). I know what you mean about keeping on watching this. I have so many shows coming back that this is really bottom of me weekly watch list. If it keeps getting cheesy as hell them I may have to say goodbye to it.
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