‘iZombie’ Puts the Human in Zombie

‘iZombie’ humanizes zombies and makes a daring political statement

‘iZombie’s season 3 premiere does something I never thought the show would do. For a few seasons now, the viewer has been made to humanize Liv, Major, and the other important zombie characters. In an unprecedented turn, with the season 3 premiere, ‘iZombie’ invites us to humanize the entire zombie race.

The season 2 finale of ‘iZombie’ was incredibly graphic, showing zombies on Supermax absolutely eviscerating and devouring people. It is a scene that we are familiar with in common zombie media. However, the vast majority of zombies in ‘iZombie’ are not like that. The zombies are human characters who simply have no choice but to have brains from time to time in order to not go “full zombie”.

In doing so, ‘iZombie’ presents us with characters who are not much different than your regular human beings. In fact, most of the zombies that Major was capturing, for example, were regular people who had been affected and were simply trying to live their everyday lives. In displaying zombies in such a manner, ‘iZombie’ makes a political statement.

It’s odd to think that a show could use zombies to make a socio-political critique, but, they are actually the perfect characterization. Zombies are viewed as evil…