'iZombie' recap: An un-dead love story
Spoiler alert! The following contains spoilers for Tuesday's episode of iZombie.
How's a zombie to resist a blue-eyed, British-accented zombie of CW-quality good looks?
The latest episode of iZombie taught us that while Liv (and quite a few other people) may be dead, love is definitely not. "Flight of the Living Dead" was all about living and loving; living in spite of the possibility (or eventuality) of death and accepting the possibility of love whether your dead or alive.
The episode had our crack zombie/fake psychic and detective team investigating the murder of Liv's ex-sorority sister Holly, an adrenaline junkie who died while she was sky-diving, while Major and Babineaux also looked in to the disappearance of Jerome and Liv made a new zombie friend. We also learned that there are a lot more zombies out in there in this world than we previously thought, including Babineaux's lieutenant, which may explain why so many missing persons cases are getting swept under the rug. But first, Liv had to learn her weekly lesson from the murder victim.
Don't waste your un-death
Holly's death, and Liv's subsequent consumption of her brains, gave our favorite zombie a tutorial in being alive. I wish I had counted the number of times the words "life" "alive" "living" "dead" and "death" were used in this episode, because it was a little ridiculous, even for a show about zombies. But regardless, this week Liv got Holly's sense of adventure and fondness for being alive, which was a good way to remind her that while, yeah OK, she's dead, she's not totally dead. She's walking and talking and eating brains, after all. Which came in handy when she met a certain someone with similar problems.
Love in the time of the zombie apocalypse
It just so happens that Holly was friends with a very attractive zombie named Lowell. It wasn't clear at first that Lowell was among the un-dead (as Liv points out, his hair is brown), but he outed himself by making Liv the spiciest cocktail ever (it was literally garnished with a hot pepper) at Holly's wake (which I guess is a great place to pick up other zombies). Maybe because she was under the influence of Holly's brains or maybe because he's just so darn hot, Liv wasn't suspicious of Lowell the way she was of Blaine. In fact there was quite a spark between the two, which, as Lowell rightly points out, might just be because they're each other's only current option. But it also might actually be something real.
I can get behind anything that takes Liv away from pining over Major, who may be the most boring person on the face of the earth (although at least he did a little something this episode, more on that below). I'm also terrible interested to learn a little more about the rules of this brand of zombification. We know that Liv was scratched to turn her, but how else are people turning? Is kissing non-zombies totally not OK? It's a question that will need to be answered before Major can ever officially be out of the picture.
Missing persons
Speaking of Major, this guy finally got something to do besides pine over Liv, although he didn't do it very well. Fed up with the police's refusal to investigate Jerome's disappearance, Major went to the skate park himself and ran into the big, bad, recently unfrozen zombie who just happened to be wearing the kid's shoes. The ensuing confrontation didn't go well for our hero, but at least he wasn't in that body bag that came to Liv at the end of the episode.
Meanwhile Babineaux's investigation of the missing kids leads him to discover that some 60 of them have disappeared in the past six months. When he brings the troubling statistic to his lieutenant, he gets a scolding for pursuing cases that aren't homicides. But when he leaves the room his boss just happens to add some hot sauce to his coffee. Maybe he just really likes spicy food. Or maybe Blaine needed a zombie on the police force to cover up all the missing people he's turning into his zombie food delivery service. I'm thinking the latter is more likely (that monologue he gave about looking at food he can't eat on Instagram makes so much more sense now). Speaking of the entrepreneurial zombie, Blaine was nowhere to be found this episode, which is mildly concerning. If you can't see him, he's probably plotting. Can't wait to see what he thinks of his henchman's latest encounter.
Miss last week's episode? Read our recap here.