After a couple of weeks off the air, iZombie returned with an episode that was all about peeling back the layers on the secrets and lies everyone has been telling. Let's start with with this week's case. The case itself was a big dud, but at this point the show an get away with that as long as it results in Liv getting an entertaining personality for the week. When the episode introduced the victim's husband, I instinctively knew he was the murderer, and unlike Clive, I'm not that big on the "the spouse always did it" mindset. This week's personality was a very amorous librarian with an active imagination, or as the episode kept bluntly putting it, "horny librarian." It was one of the more over the top personalities that Liv has taken on, but it gave the writers a chance to get in some really good jokes, and for Live to make some really bad life decisions (such as sleeping with a stranger, who unbeknownst to her is simultaneously working for the city's two most prominent Utopium dealers).
Liv wasn't the only one making bad life choices. Peyton finally returned to the show, but ended up sleeping with Blaine. I'm glad that rather than drag that storyline out, the writers let Peyton in on the secret of Blain's past misdeeds before the episode was over. Of course, this all took place after Peyton went and stopped Dale and Clive from arresting Blaine, as both had figured out that Blaine is definitely connected to the Meat Cute massacre and all of the missing zombies around town. Clive keeps getting closer and closer to the truth about Liv, so it will be interesting to see if the show actually ever lets him in on the secret. There's a risk to letting secrets run too long on shows like this. Usually, protecting the main character's secret becomes a stale plot device and an irresponsible danger to the other characters. So far the show has only benefited from letting characters in on Liv's secret, so I'm definitely in favor of Clive (and Liv's family for that matter) finding out sooner than later.
Speaking of secrets, Major still has his zombie "killing" secret that he's hiding from everyone for reasons that become less clear every week. This week Clive and Dale almost caught Major with Minor, the dog, and the entire situation could have been much more easily avoided if had Liv and Ravi known to give him a heads up that Clive was on to him. They've both already done the same to help hide his involvement at Meat Cute from Clive, so it's odd for him not to trust them with this as well. I suspect the show will handle Liv finding out about Major's activities in a way that pays off well, so I've never gotten too worried about what direction the writers are taking this story line in.
Other thoughts:
- Kristen Bell took the time to briefly lend her voice to a scene, but it hardly lived up to the hype of having Kristen Bell working with Rob Thomas again. Actually identifying her as Kristen Bell was also a weird choice. I hope it doesn't mean the show is closing the door on Bell guest starring in person in the future.
- The ending of this week's episode felt very abrupt. It's hot a problem I've ever noticed in the past, so hopefully it was just this one time.
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