Z Nation (Syfy) [** Spoilers **]

For me it went from "Its pretty alright" to "It's frickin' great".

They did. Did you not see Murphy's skin on the ground at the end :pac:

Showrunner karl schaefer talks z nation getting a super sized season 2, and what's to come [Exclusive BTS photos]

Season 1 is been shown on Pick TV starting tomorrow (Tue) at 10pm

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Is this worth the candle? The trouble with American series is they go on forever or die a sad death just when you are getting into it.

I dont watch it because its good, i watch it because the acting, story lines and everything thing else about it is awful, but thats where its beauty lies, the writes know all this and thats what makes this show so damn brilliant to watch.

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I think that's a little unfair, while the show is no doubt bargain basement fair the writing is quite strong and characters well defined. It's a show about spectacle and it delivers that in spades and is far more fun than the overtly serious The Walking Dead

I agree. TWD is about suspension of disbelief. Z Nation is arch, acknowledging that the story's a bit silly and rolling with it like mud-wrestling women.

Well Z Nation is back this weekend for the first episode of season two. I have just finished re-watching season one and am really looking forward to season two. This show really stands up on a second watch. Although it is made on a shoestring budget the writing is excellent. They really make the most out of what they have got. This is just a damn good, well written, well directed show. It turns out that just because it is cheap and has SyFy and The Asylum behind it does not stop it from being an excellent show.

Some of the season one highlights for me where.
A zombie baby, a zombie stuck in a wheel arch, an oil refinery tank full of zombies, a zombie dog, zombies on fire, a cannibal cult, a stoner zombie, Amish zombies, a zoonami, a zombie tornado, an imaginary Cosmonaut, Radioactive zombies, a zombie bear, zombies on speed and of course the unseen zombies on Viagra.

Here is a quick recap of the last episode for anyone who doesn't remember where we left off on the cliffhanger finale.

Our group, with the help of Citizen Z, is trying to get Murphy to California so that Dr Murch can use him to synthesise a vaccine for the zombie plague. Citizen Z receives a message from Dr Murch that she is no longer in California but is now in a facility in Fort Collins, Colorado. So, our group heads there instead. When they arrive they find that nearly everyone there is dead. They find various deformed or mutated zombie/people locked in containment cells and two mutant zombies on the loose. Murphy is unable to control the mutant zombies but does manage to kill them. They also find the original patient zero of the zombie virus and put him out of his misery.

They then meet Dr Kurian who is a bad guy who deals in bio-weapons technology. Cassandra, who was near death from an infected leg wound, has been bitten by Murphy. She now looks like a zombie but is still alive. She attacks Dr Kurian and his soldiers. She kills the two soldiers but is then shot by Dr Kurian who also manages to shoot Doc. Murphy runs away from the action and is pursued by Dr Kurian. Murphy decides to leave the lab even though he knows that doing so will breach the quarantine procedure and cause a nuclear missile to be automatically launched towards the facility. As Murphy leaves he sheds his skin and exits the facility naked.

Cassandra, who has survived being shot, now fights the zombie soldiers in order to allow Warren, 10K and Doc to escape. The launch of the nuclear missile towards Fort Collins causes other nuclear missiles to be automatically launched towards key sites including the Northern Light base were Citizen Z is based.

The last we see of everyone is Murphy driving away from the site in a van. Cassandra underground fighting zombies. Doc, 10K and Warren driving away from the site in another van. Dr Kurian running away on foot. Citizen Z watching incoming missiles to camp Northern Light. Separate shots of Mack and Addy watching nuclear missiles passing overhead. It is not clear if Mack and Addy are together or not. The last we saw of them was when Addy chose to stay with the Sisters of Mercy group and Mack went back to get her.

I'm a bit indifferent about the opener. I was looking forward to it, but I don't think it was as good as I had hoped. Zombie poledancer and lesbians were interesting.

Pretty good episode. I'd love try some Z-weed. Blasters are great. The Blaster getting mangled between the truck wheels was fantastic.

However, as opposed to last weeks episode of non-stop action that you could follow perfectly, I found myself confused or lost throughout most of this one. Cassandra magically appears on top of the Charger out of nowhere to help Doc when seconds earlier she was in the quarantine vehicle. When the blasters attack the truck, I couldn't keep track of which zombies were where or who was dead or alive. The truck seemed to be made up of car parts and have cars on it that may or may not have contained an undefined number of refugees. So when all hell broke loose I couldn't tell who was getting killed, there were just lots of close-ups of people in cars getting attacked and zombies climbing over roofs. Then when everyone started going zombie I couldn't tell who was a regular zombie and who was a blaster.

I enjoyed the episode and it had some great moments but I spent most of the time trying to figure out what I was supposed to be looking at.

I'm enjoying this season but the overall 'grey' colour of the scenes are starting to bother me. Some of this week's episode might as well have bene shot in black and white. I'm all for post processing images but they're going a bit far this season IMHO. It was never the brightest show around but the lack of colour definition now almost makes it hard to follow what's going on. I'm sure that it led to some of the confustion in this week's episode.