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Dead Set
2008 · TV series · 30 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Charlie Brooker
Zombies are rampaging throughout Britain. Blissfully unaware of gory events outside, the Big Brother housemates are in for the ultimate eviction night...
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Don't forget 'Dead Set', a really good zombie TV series set in the Big Brother house (Very critically acclaimed).
Also 'A Touch of Cloth' is funny, essentially British 'Police Squad'/'Naked Gun'.
Ahhh, finally, a question on HN I can answer!
Firstly, I'm a huge fan of the zombie apocalypse.
-So, why do I like it?
I love the genre because, by far and large, because it creates a reality that works very counter-intuitively. Sure, zombies are a threat, but bigger picture, they're just a background concern compared to the threat that other people present, and that's where the meat of good zombie apocalypse media resides: human interaction.
The scenario allows for an accelerated skewing of human interaction that extends not to just distrust of strangers, but absolute loyalty to anyone that's proven their trust. Anyone showing slight signs of mental instability is now a huge threat to your livelihood, and anyone not pulling their weight may have be killed or left for dead (which is effectively killing them yourself.) What, in our world, are the slightest of concerns, become large factors in a zombie infested world.
-Favorite zombie media? Night of the Living Dead (which is public domain and free at http://www.archive.org/details/night_of_the_living_dead http://www.archive.org/details/night_of_the_living_dead_dvd And Romero's others (Dawn, Day, Land, just not Diary.) Shaughn of the Dead, Zombi II (Shark v Zombie; how can you go wrong there? Otherwise blah) 28 Days Later (Yeah, yeah, whatever. Listen to the commentary. They know it's a zombie flick.) and the UK show Dead Set was worth watching too.
Most other zombie flicks just aren't that good.
The comic The Walking Dead is without a doubt some of the best zombie media out there (I collect it in TPBs, and need to grab the latest.)
Max Brooks' books World War Z (interview-like retelling of the Zombie War with veterans,) and Zombie Survival Guide (Almost like a 'for Dummies' book) are must-reads.
And the game Urban Dead http://www.urbandead.com is pretty fun initially as well, but didn't have a ood 'end-game' when I was playing. Now it all looks relatively safe: http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/Suburb (map)
-As for anything else I'd add...
Just that gore isn't necessarily required, but if you ARE going to do it, well, make it worthwhile. ;)
And feel free to email if you think of any follow-up questions for zombie fans.!
The zombie TV series "Dead Set" really drew me in, though it did prompt Simon Pegg to write scathingly about its use of "fast-moving" zombies, instead of the traditional shuffling kind (as mentioned by unalone above). Which I kind of agree with. Still, brilliant series made with a small budget.