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The zombie genre doesn’t seem to die down anytime soon as it keeps coming back with a twist or a different angle and production value. These are some of the Top Zombie TV-Series with zombies from around the world.
The zombie genre doesn’t seem to die down anytime soon as it keeps coming back with a twist or a different angle and production value. These are some of the Top Zombie TV-Series with zombies from around the world.
Zombies are everywhere in pop culture these days. From movies to television shows, video games to books, there seems to be no shortage of undead characters on our screens. Here are some of the top zombie TV-series that we’ve seen so far.
The Walking Dead is an American post-apocalyptic horror drama television series developed by Frank Darabont and based on the comic book series of the same name written by Robert Kirkman and premiered on AMC on October 31, 2010. The show follows a group of survivors in Georgia, USA, living in a world overrun by flesh eating zombies they call Walkers. This is one of top zombie TV-series that really blew new life into the Zombie interests and the show lasted for 11 seasons before ending it.
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This is another top zombie TV-series for Netflix that rose to the top streaming, even more so than the hit series, Squid Games. It is an adaptation of the popular webtoon of the same name and are now one of the biggest Korean horror TV-Series. A seemingly normal day at school that ends in an international disaster as a rabid zombie outbreak starts from the schools science lab. The student quickly learn that they are all on their own and must escape so not turn to one of the living dead. This is a gory series that doesn’t shy away from blood, violence and deeply flawed human beings with a twist on the zombie lore.
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This zombie series takes a comedic and every day approach to the zombie genre. Sheila and Joel are married real estate agents who live and work in Santa Clarita, California with their daughter in the peaceful suburbs. When Sheila dies, their lives take a dark turn when she turns into a zombie and needs human flesh to survive.
This French series took a new look at the zombie lore with a more haunting approach than a full fledge flesh eating one. In a small French mountain town where everyone knows each other, the dead returns as if it never happened and with no memories of how it happened. This is forcing the townsfolk to confront their difficult past as they seek to understand this phenomenon and deal with their loved ones coming back to life.
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The mega top zombie TV-series helped turn the tide for Korean horror TV-Series and certainly the interest in Korean zombies. A mysterious illness has befallen the king in a fictionalized version of Korea in the Joseon area. The illness of zombification is spreading throughout the kingdom and the crown prince travels out from the castle to solve the mystery behind his father’s ailment. Out there he finds a kingdom in disarray and hoards of zombies threatening the whole kingdom he was born to protect. With its two season wrapped story it looks like this is the whole of it, but with sidequel/prequel like movies like Kingdom: Ashin of the North, and the original cartoon with its specials, who is to say this a finished series?
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Helix is a science fiction thriller that focuses on an expedition of the Centers for Disease Control into the Arctic to investigate a potential outbreak of a disease. The team encounters a zombie-like threat, and the operator of the facility seems to know more about it than he’s letting on.
Can we call the fantasy series about dragons, crowns and the God of light a zombie show? Yes, why not, as some of the seasons heavily focused on the threat of the North coming to Westeros. Behind the wall, the thing separating the civilized south to the wild north, an ancient threat has awakened. And while they squander about who can sit on the throne and not in the south, the people in the north and beyond the wall needs to find a way to protect all humans against these monsters.
Although the plot with the zombies came to a rather abrupt end in the last season, the zombies were a rather fresh take on the zombie genre as well as it place in the fantasy universe.
This BBC Drama poses the question: What do we do after the Zombie Apocalypse, and how do we integrate the zombies back into the society? Four years after what they call: The Rising, the government starts to rehabilitate the zombies that goes as The Undead for reentry into society. We follow the teenager Kieren Walker as he returns to his small Lancashire village as an undead to face a hostile reception, as well as his own demons.
Fear of the Walking Dead started out as a spinoff of the hugely popular top zombie TV-series, The Walking Dead. But it quickly found its own fan base and vibe that differed slightly from the original. The series is set in Los Angeles, California with a new cast that battles the zombies from the first day of infection rather than to jump right in 30 days after as The Walking Days did. It follows two families who must band together to survive the undead apocalypse.
This Korean Drama tells the story about Kim Moo-Young (Choi Jin-Hyuk) who has been a zombie for the past 2 years. He has learned how to pass as a living human and goes to live in the city. There he starts a private detective office where he solves cases as he tries to regain his past memories as he doesn’t remember anything before becoming a zombie.
Liv Moore is just a normal medical student and gets invited in a party on night. This party turns into a macabre zombie arena and she is infected. She wakes up from the dead and becomes a zombie and must eat human brains to maintain her humanity. This she solves better than any other zombie so far though and she goes to work in the coroner’s office to access to fresh brain. It turns out that eating a brain gives her that person’s traits and memories, and she can assist in more ways to solve the murders.
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