Sing Along "I'm Radioactive, Radioactive"
This week "Z Nation" continues it's trend of showing zombies in every possible scenario. We've seen zornados, zunamis and now nuclear zombies. My hat is off to you "Z Nation". You have truly gone where no zombie show has ever gone before.
In "Going Nuclear" Operation Bite Mark is in South Dakota where they meet a father and daughter. The town's nuclear reactor is about to blow. Roberta and crew cant outrun it (there are no working cars) so they have to stay and help. They fight their way into the nuclear facility where Grady does what he can. He dies shortly thereafter from radiation poisoning.
No Hugging!
Next they're off to some crazy dude's house. He quickly becomes a surrogate father figure to 10K (who as you will recall had a hard till killing his own father before he turned). But still Homer working in a nuclear power plant? Where are the donuts? Doh!
Homer and 10K go back into the plant. They plan to use Robbie (a robot) to cut the fuel rods. Great scene of Robbie lasering the Zs. But the zombies finally Robbie up and tear it apart. Bad zombies! Now onto plan C. 10K lowers Homer into the nuclear reaction where he manually lowers the rods into the cooling pool. Homers asks 10K to kill him before he turns (but 10K again cant do it). Homer cuts the rope and falls in the water (where he instantly zombiefies). I assume he's staying there forever.
At the beginning of the episode we learned that Amelia is a pilot. Roberta converts her two seater plane to run on vodka. Amelia flies Murphy away but the plane crashes shortly after takeoff. Amelia is killed and becomes a zombie. Murphy cant bring himself to stake her. Plus she acts differently from other zombies. She doesnt try to bite him. DeadAmelia mimics his movements and follows him back to town. Murphy convinces the gang not to kill Amelia because she's not bothering anyone. They drive off in a golf cart.
Murphy: King Of The Zombies
What is Murphy's end game? Will he become the zombie messiah? Will he turn on the humans? We saw what he did during zunami so he definitely cant be trusted. But he's so funny it's hard not to like him.
We get a few glimpses of Citizen Z at the Northern Lights base as filler. Addy and Mac are again MIA. The show is best when the team is together so I hope they return soon.
Random Thoughts:
- Extra bonus points for someone tagging Mount Rushmore to make the presidents look like zombies. Let's ignore how much work and paint that project would actually take. It was still fun.
- Too bad they weren't fighting the radioactive zombies at night. Glow in the dark zombies would be the best!
- Murphy farting and alerting the zombies to their hiding place. Hilarious!
Favorite Quotes:
- "Im a doctor, not a nuclear physicist!"- Doc (well you're not actually a doctor either).
- "No hugging!"- Doc to a nuclear zombie.
- Roberta: "He's our last hope for humanity". Grady:"Yeah and I'm the Easter Bunny". Murphy: "Unless of course you have eggs to lay Mr Bunny"
- "Vitamin V, the elixir of the zombie apocalypse."- Murphy does like his vodka.
- Warren: "Murphy could you quit drinking your damn fuel and put it in the tank?" Murphy: "I dont know where the tank is." Warren: Well its not in your mouth."
Grade: 4 Monsters (out of 5). I would have given the show a lower score but the scenes with Murphy and ZombieAmelia pushed it up. And leaving Amelia behind was kinda sad...even though she's dead.
TV: Heavy On Sci Fi, Horror & Adventure; Light On Reality
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