So Dominic Mitchell decides to continue this anthology-alike season structure. That could be either a good thing or a bad thing. The problem though, is that there's only so tar you can push an allegory and in an anthology type structure, it doesn't work. This means that one week, the show is focusing on GLBT issues and the next, it's focusing on a man trying to get his wife back. Yes, that's what this episode is about for the most part. We focus on a character who, for the previous two episodes, was little more than a background extra and got little more than a minute of screen time. I have no problems with a show trying to give a minor character the spotlight, but the problem is that Freddy is just boring
He's hotter than an ad for Trojan condoms, sure, but he's hardly given enough development aside from... well, oh look, I was married to a beautiful lady one time and now she's off with this Indian dick because I'm dead. The closest thing to likable he gets is a touching scene in the episode's finale, when he tries to make it up to his wife by helping hive her gifts to help her survive should a second rising happen. Then he forgets to take his shot and turns rabid. Then he tries to get her to kill him with a hammer. Sadly we have to sit through... 50 something minutes of mindless filler to get to it
That's another problem with the season as a whole: 6 episodes. This clearly turns out to be more episodes than Dom can handle. In recent interviews promoting the show, Dom stated he had something of a "series bible" to help guide him through. To many this may seem as though he has it all planned out; to me this shows that he's overwhelmed by this sudden success and is scrambling to make sense of a second season; the anthology format doesn't help because it only proves that he has little left to say. The sad thing is that if you were to cut the "oh let's go into the life of X character" episodes or at least condense the parts that actually matter into one episode, you would get a pretty decent episode
Elsewhere, Simon has this PDS rebels group and also teaches Kieren to subordinate a rabid. The rebels group is the best part of this episode, but there's not enough of it. Kieren is also starting to become bloody annoying. Of course, this isn't Newberry's fault; he's doing what he can to help portray him well, but if you're agreeing with Simon's rebel ways for much of the episode and not liking the protagonist then there's something fishy afoot
I really wanted to like this episode but in all honesty, despite some good moments involving better Simon character development, the show just continues to prove to us that we should have waved goodbye to it at the end of its series 1 finale. For a show that tries to put humanity into zombies, the irony is that Dom has trouble letting the dead rest. When the best scene is Simon and Kieren kissing, you know the show is failing
He's hotter than an ad for Trojan condoms, sure, but he's hardly given enough development aside from... well, oh look, I was married to a beautiful lady one time and now she's off with this Indian dick because I'm dead. The closest thing to likable he gets is a touching scene in the episode's finale, when he tries to make it up to his wife by helping hive her gifts to help her survive should a second rising happen. Then he forgets to take his shot and turns rabid. Then he tries to get her to kill him with a hammer. Sadly we have to sit through... 50 something minutes of mindless filler to get to it
That's another problem with the season as a whole: 6 episodes. This clearly turns out to be more episodes than Dom can handle. In recent interviews promoting the show, Dom stated he had something of a "series bible" to help guide him through. To many this may seem as though he has it all planned out; to me this shows that he's overwhelmed by this sudden success and is scrambling to make sense of a second season; the anthology format doesn't help because it only proves that he has little left to say. The sad thing is that if you were to cut the "oh let's go into the life of X character" episodes or at least condense the parts that actually matter into one episode, you would get a pretty decent episode
Elsewhere, Simon has this PDS rebels group and also teaches Kieren to subordinate a rabid. The rebels group is the best part of this episode, but there's not enough of it. Kieren is also starting to become bloody annoying. Of course, this isn't Newberry's fault; he's doing what he can to help portray him well, but if you're agreeing with Simon's rebel ways for much of the episode and not liking the protagonist then there's something fishy afoot
I really wanted to like this episode but in all honesty, despite some good moments involving better Simon character development, the show just continues to prove to us that we should have waved goodbye to it at the end of its series 1 finale. For a show that tries to put humanity into zombies, the irony is that Dom has trouble letting the dead rest. When the best scene is Simon and Kieren kissing, you know the show is failing