Surprisingly boring for a show about a zombie apocalypse... and where are all the zombies?
Also completely unfunny for a "comedy" series.
The worst problem here is the writing. Just a bad story with a lot of laziness. One dimensional characters who behave unlike any real person. Huge lacks of logic.
Examples of lazy jokes? They lean way too much on Sean of the Dead. They try to escape on a super slow drifting boat (why?) Even when they find a faster boat with a motor, they don't even think to switch over to it instead. At least three times they do the "we need to make a fast getaway!" joke then we see the boat moving very slowly. We get it, it's a super slow boat. Kind of funny the first time, never again after that. It's six episodes of that.
Examples of lazy writing? Well, the main zombie, who happens to be one of the girls' date from the night before (super coincidence) who happens to end up chasing their super slow boat (super coincidence) leads a small group of like five zombies (about the only zombies in this zombie show) along the river bank. Apparently this is the only riverbank on earth with no natural obstacles or tributaries that would stop the zombies because they always keep up with the boat at exactly the same distance. On top of that, we then learn that this zombie leader is a "super special" zombie because he's much stronger and FASTER than the other zombies... OK so then why are all the other zombies he's with able to keep up with him the entire time?
I hate writing like this where they completely ignore not just real world logic but their own rules which they make up for their own story. That's not just lazy, it's just plain stupid. I can't believe this show made it to production without these problems - and there are many glaring problems - being addressed.
At another point a zombie falls off their hotel roof and lands right beside the boat, at least twenty feet away from the building. Our heroes then plan to jump into the river, which is about thirty feet away. Head-scratching ineptitude in both writing and filmmaking.
There's also a guy running a barge to refuel boats, and they stop to get fuel from him and he wants to be paid, even though he knows about the zombie apocalypse. That might be a funny gag, but they then spend the entire episode with this guy demanding payment, chasing them around and kidnapping them. Finally at the end one of them thinks to say "hey man it's a zombie apocalypse, money is worthless, you can't spend it anywhere" and then he's like "you're right" and he accepts their spare boat as payment instead. The end.
I mean seriously, there is supposed to be a zombie infestation but we never see any of them on the street in this city. They go to a grocery store and get trapped inside by the automatic door. So we're supposed to believe that 1) the woman trapped in there trapped a horde of zombies by stacking up a wall of boxes while they just, I guess, stood there watching her? 2) that woman was not waiting at the door for people to open it so she could escape? 3) she's been trapped there all day, meaning that not a single person came to try to get food or medical supplies ALL DAY? 4) the grocery store has no other exits, just the automatic entrance and the loading dock where she somehow trapped the horde of zombies 5) when the grocery store was built, they ordered super special glass doors that can't possibly be broken? All day? 6) the front doors are impossible to open from the inside but still easily opened by sensors on the outside (pretty bad fire safety) and 7) after our heroes narrowly escape, the zombies are trapped inside pounding on the doors... but our heroes are standing right there and then just walk away, so why don't they trigger the automatic doors to open again? That would have been logical AND been a good, fun and funny moment for the show, but the writers did not even see this apparently.
This show is riddled with issues like that. Its stupidity induces one eye roll after another. Zomboat is way too stupid to be a good zombie show, and way too unfunny to be a comedy.
I've seen a couple of these actors in other things which were much better so I don't blame them. It's bad and lazy writing, start to finish.
I will be shocked if this show gets a second season.
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