This show is extremely enjoyable! I will always respect and want to be friends with Ravi Chakrabarti :)

at first I wasn't sure, but now it's one of my favorite shows *-*

Starts off interesting with its perspective on zombies and Liv constantly shifting personalities to solve murder-mysteries. I was hooked given the odd blending of zombies and murder-mystery that also superadds new angles to both genres. Yet, in typical CW fashion, the writing devolves precipitously with ever-increasing repetitiousness. Plus, the concept was all it had to begin with, there is no characterization or meaning behind the cartoonish take on society and politics. I would recommend it as a harmless pastime (which is my chief use for television), but with the aforementioned caveat.

I really tried to like this show, but I gave up after 10 episodes. The storyline is boring and slow, the characters are dull and the acting...meh.

iZombie is a series that, at first, could easily sound like another unnecessary twist on the zombie genre. After so many films, series and undead apocalypses, it was natural to think there was not much left to explore. But the surprise is that iZombie finds a fairly charming, light and entertaining way to use the concept without repeating exactly the same old thing. The series starts from a pretty funny idea: Liv used to be a doctor with a normal life, then she ends up becoming a zombie and finds in the morgue the least criminal way to keep going. There she can eat brains without killing anyone, and every time she does, she inherits memories and personality quirks from the dead person. That ends up helping her solve murders with the police, almost as if she were a psychic, although what she really has is a very complicated diet. The best thing is that the series understands its tone very quickly. It does not try to compete with The Walking Dead, nor does it aim to be a brutal survival experience like other entries in the genre. iZombie goes in another direction: brighter, more ironic, more procedural and much friendlier. There is blood, there are brains and there are dark moments, but the heart of the show lies in its characters and in that light black humor that makes everything easy to watch. Rose McIver is essential to making it work. Liv could have been annoying or too forced, but McIver gives her warmth, vulnerability and a lot of comic ability. The device of each brain temporarily changing her personality also allows the series to play with different registers without completely breaking its shape. Sometimes it works better, sometimes less so, but it almost always adds energy. The supporting cast helps a lot too. Ravi is one of those characters who gradually wins the show through sheer likeability, Clive works well as the police counterpoint, and Blaine, played by David Anders, brings a more cynical, dangerous and funny energy. The series improves when it does not limit itself to the case of the week and allows its small universe of morgue, police work, hidden zombies, possible cure and growing threats to expand. The weekly case format is both a strength and a limitation. On the one hand, it makes the series very easy to follow and gives it a comfortable structure: corpse, brain, visions, investigation and resolution. On the other, it can also make some episodes feel too similar. When iZombie becomes only “CSI with a friendly zombie,” it loses some strength. When it mixes that with its own mythology, humor, characters and moral conflict, it works much better. It is not a perfect series. Some seasons are stronger than others, certain plots go on too long, some twists are very television-like and it does not always maintain the same freshness. But it has something very important: it is easy to like. It knows what it is, it does not become solemn without reason, and it manages to make a fairly absurd idea feel natural. iZombie is good. It is easy to enjoy, entertaining, full of charismatic characters and brings a breath of fresh air to a genre that often takes itself too seriously. It is not a great zombie masterpiece or an essential series, but it is a smart, likeable show with more charm than it first appears. A series to go along with, enjoy its brain of the day and eventually grow fond of Liv and her strange world of dead people who still go to work.