iZombie returned in fine form from it's winter finale, with an episode that focused on a lot of what the show does best. The main focus of the episode was resolving the work relationship between Liv and Clive. My biggest problem with this entire story arc (if you can even call a two episode conflict a story arc), is that it didn't seem necessary. If the show was going to do something as big as ending the partnership between Liv and Clive, then it would have been nice for there to be more of a pay off than just having Clive realize that he values Liv as a partner. That part was annoying, but the episode wasn't an entire loss. Any chance the show gets to build the relationship between Clive and Liv is good, and the actual mending of the relationship worked well, but it all happened too abruptly for that plot device to have a meaningful impact.
This week's case wasn't much of a mystery (the killer was the most logical person possible), but it did allow the writers to have a lot of fun. Liv consuming the brain of an actor, and much of the episode taking place on the set of a television show about zombies, allowed the writers to put a "meta" spin on the episode. Clive's tongue-in-cheek dismissal of a show where the zombie is the main character was a fun poke at iZombie, and also led to the irony laden revelation that zombies creep Clive out. There was also a very well played joke that had fun with Rose McIver's past playing a power ranger. The writers found the perfect balance between poking fun at their show, it's cast, and even its perception as a show on the CW network, without taking the bit too far.
Relationships and murder aside, we learned a little bit more about everything that is going on on the zombie outbreak/zombie cure/Max Rager front. Ravi came clean to everyone about the likelihood that the zombie cure will wear off at some point. The search for a cure is an increasingly interesting part of the show because there are a lot of serious implications to either its success or failure. If Liv were ever cured, the show would end, cause no brains means no "psychic powers." On the other hand, I firmly believe that Major would not work as a full time zombie. Liv is type A enough to turn her condition into a purpose to go on. Major is emotionally distraught by pretending to kill zombies, so I can only imagine how full time brain eating would destroy him. None of this is to say that Major is a weak character. It was nice to see him play a little offense against Max Rager for once. Bugging Von is the smartest thing that Major has done since getting into this whole blackmail situation. I'm interested to see how that plot plays off in the future. In the present however, "Method Head" was a very fun entry for the show.
This week's case wasn't much of a mystery (the killer was the most logical person possible), but it did allow the writers to have a lot of fun. Liv consuming the brain of an actor, and much of the episode taking place on the set of a television show about zombies, allowed the writers to put a "meta" spin on the episode. Clive's tongue-in-cheek dismissal of a show where the zombie is the main character was a fun poke at iZombie, and also led to the irony laden revelation that zombies creep Clive out. There was also a very well played joke that had fun with Rose McIver's past playing a power ranger. The writers found the perfect balance between poking fun at their show, it's cast, and even its perception as a show on the CW network, without taking the bit too far.
Relationships and murder aside, we learned a little bit more about everything that is going on on the zombie outbreak/zombie cure/Max Rager front. Ravi came clean to everyone about the likelihood that the zombie cure will wear off at some point. The search for a cure is an increasingly interesting part of the show because there are a lot of serious implications to either its success or failure. If Liv were ever cured, the show would end, cause no brains means no "psychic powers." On the other hand, I firmly believe that Major would not work as a full time zombie. Liv is type A enough to turn her condition into a purpose to go on. Major is emotionally distraught by pretending to kill zombies, so I can only imagine how full time brain eating would destroy him. None of this is to say that Major is a weak character. It was nice to see him play a little offense against Max Rager for once. Bugging Von is the smartest thing that Major has done since getting into this whole blackmail situation. I'm interested to see how that plot plays off in the future. In the present however, "Method Head" was a very fun entry for the show.
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