In The Flesh

**Xei** · 04-14-2013 03:33 AM

I find almost all of these zombie films and TV series pretty tiresome and bland, but I thought this was awesome. It's a 3 part series by the BBC. The basic premise is that there was a sudden mass resurrection of the recently deceased, and they were violent zombies, but a cure was found which safely suppresses the zombie characteristics and returns the undead to their normal personalities. It's really a human drama rather than being about horror or action. The series is focused on the social issues of the recently revived returning to a village in the English countryside which was hard-hit by the zombies, and in particular a family whose son had committed suicide. Well shot, well acted, well written, and it's really dramatic and emotionally hard-hitting. Has anybody else seen it? If not you should definitely check it out.

**Patrick** · 04-14-2013 05:39 PM

Sounds interesting, when did it come out?

**Xei** · 04-14-2013 06:24 PM

A couple of weeks ago, I think. It didn't have much of an audience and it broadcast on BBC3, but I thought it was the best TV drama I'd seen in a long while.

**dutchraptor** · 04-15-2013 12:28 AM

I'll have a look at it once I have some spare time, sounds interesting. I'm usually not into all the actons scenes either unless there is a really good plot going on.

**Zoth** · 04-15-2013 01:28 AM

It already became one of my favourite series. Don't think that you're coming to a Walking Dead kind of series, this is truly much more dramatic. A new face of zombie shows that is very original.

**Arra** · 04-15-2013 01:44 AM

I watched the trailers and it does look like it may be good. Only three episodes though? Was it cancelled?

**Xei** · 04-15-2013 02:29 AM

Originally Posted by Dianeva

I watched the trailers and it does look like it may be good. Only three episodes though? Was it cancelled?

Not at all. It's just dense. In the US they have a tendency to pad series out until they're threadbare... I imagine this would've made 12 episodes over there. Most series here are 6 episodes long or so, and really good ones (Sherlock, Wallander...) often come in threes.

A second series might work, but because it's short it has a tight and well-structured narrative, so by the end most of the characters have traversed their dramatic arcs (which sometimes requires dying)... so I think it'd either have to involve a second resurrection, or totally new characters. Trying to extend things beyond their natural life span often has poor results... we should be content to leave a good thing be.

**~~DeletePlease~~** · 04-22-2013 08:32 AM

I'll watch this, but only because Xei said so.

**Arra** · 04-22-2013 09:15 AM

I watched the first episode and can understand now why it's only 3 episodes. It seems like it could be 2, like it's almost over already.

I really liked it. Very sad and thought provoking. I'll give a more adequate review once I watch the last two though.