Just over half way through this first run now and "Zomboat" has settled into being a solid, if a little unspectacular, sitcom.
As night-time approaches and the boat chugs through Birmingham, hunger begins to set in for the gang. They realise that they are approaching a supermarket that Jo (Cara Theobold) used to work in, so she and Amar (Ryan McKen) head out for supplies. At the supermarket they meet Chloe (Amy Booth-Steel) Jo's former colleague who idolises her for getting away from the job. We also learn that a traumatic incident in Sunny's (Hamza Jeetooa) past has left him genuinely afraid of the dark.
I'm starting to warm to the dynamics between all of the characters now. The needle between Sunny and Kat continues, as does the Amar and Jo team. This was a better episode for the Jo/Kat story though - as you learn a little more about their lives before the show started, in fact this was the strongest episode for Jo altogether - though I don't remember her picking up that long Matrix coat it does give the impression of her becoming a little more settled in their predicament. I'm not sure that the potential relationship between Kat and Sunny is actually something that the show is going to pull the trigger on, or if the show is making such a big (and obvious) deal out of it to pull it out from underneath us on a later episode.
I'm still a little unsure on the Zombie rules for the show. At one point a Zombie grabs both Jo and Amar by the throat and chokes them, rather than trying to bite them. Whilst it services the story of the episode it is a bit odd. The rule also seems to be that destroying the heart, rather than the head is the way to go - that I assume is a cost choice, as it saves a bit of money on special effects.
Given more time to grow, I do feel like there's a decent upside for this series, but I worry that the lack of buzz around the show may mean that a second season never materialises.
As night-time approaches and the boat chugs through Birmingham, hunger begins to set in for the gang. They realise that they are approaching a supermarket that Jo (Cara Theobold) used to work in, so she and Amar (Ryan McKen) head out for supplies. At the supermarket they meet Chloe (Amy Booth-Steel) Jo's former colleague who idolises her for getting away from the job. We also learn that a traumatic incident in Sunny's (Hamza Jeetooa) past has left him genuinely afraid of the dark.
I'm starting to warm to the dynamics between all of the characters now. The needle between Sunny and Kat continues, as does the Amar and Jo team. This was a better episode for the Jo/Kat story though - as you learn a little more about their lives before the show started, in fact this was the strongest episode for Jo altogether - though I don't remember her picking up that long Matrix coat it does give the impression of her becoming a little more settled in their predicament. I'm not sure that the potential relationship between Kat and Sunny is actually something that the show is going to pull the trigger on, or if the show is making such a big (and obvious) deal out of it to pull it out from underneath us on a later episode.
I'm still a little unsure on the Zombie rules for the show. At one point a Zombie grabs both Jo and Amar by the throat and chokes them, rather than trying to bite them. Whilst it services the story of the episode it is a bit odd. The rule also seems to be that destroying the heart, rather than the head is the way to go - that I assume is a cost choice, as it saves a bit of money on special effects.
Given more time to grow, I do feel like there's a decent upside for this series, but I worry that the lack of buzz around the show may mean that a second season never materialises.