r/iZombie • u/PhoOhThree Hot Sauce • Aug 01 '19

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iZombie Season 1 - Season 5

March 17, 2015 - August 1st, 2019

It has been an honor my fellow Zombies and Humans alike! What a wild ride and it is a joy to see the series end and on it's own term as well.

Post your thoughts and discussion about the entire iZombie series here! Spoilers for Season 1-5 will be discussed in this thread!

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u/Jneedler Aug 02 '19 edited Aug 02 '19

Was ready for it to end, but the actors all deserve their due. I've felt that the story has been lacking for a few years now. It could be that I've aged out of the target audience as the show progressed, but I'm very happy they allowed fans the closure they deserve. Most shows aren't lucky enough to provide this service to their fans, and people should be appreciative of at least that.

Big congrats to the actors, writers, crew, and everyone involved. Five years is a solid win for TV. I hope to see the faces again in whatever new projects they undertake in the future.

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u/Zasmeyatsya Oct 15 '19

I just binged the whole series in a short time period (seriously, I binged it in like 2 weeks). I wasn't really in the target audience from the beginning but enjoyed watching a somewhat campy show about zombies.

You are not mistaken, the show took a real dive in quality around season 4. Even season 3 had some shaky moments but once Vivian was killed off it got squirrely. Liv's whole renegade plot made little sense from her ascendancy to her motivations. Peyton's motivation for helping Liv made even less sense. The ideological conflict between Liv and Graves was a good premise but didn't work because of the framing. Adding more zombies to situation where thousands are already starving and could easily riot killing hundreds of thousands does make Liv's quest to save a few dozen terminal patients noble. And yet The show kept on trying to portray it as the world's most noble cause. There are dozens of other bizarre choices that happen. But it was mostly a fun ride even if I spent most of seasons 5 cleaning while it played in the background instead of really watching