I am super mixed on this series/season.
Episode 1? Fucking fantastic! It still is my favorite episode in the series. It's nothing but character build up, and I love it.
Episode 2 to 8? Good shit. The pacing is way too slow, and some cliffhangers are pretty shitty, but what this sets up and tries to execute is honestly good. I was ready for the finale.
Episode 9 to 12? Meh. Not a fan of a lot of stuff here.
The thing that pissed me off the most was the fact that they completely abandoned the conflict between Gwi-nam and Eun-ji. For me, they had the 2nd most interesting conflict in the story (after Na-yeon's internal conflict), and yet they decided to use Eun-ji to alert the military to the existence of hybrids in order to not end the show in episode 8, and just made Gwi-nam run after Cheong-san for god knows how many episodes. It gets tiresome after a while. Gwi-nam and Eun-ji both survived after being bitten by zombies, and yet they never clash again in order to resolve the conflict that was set-up in episode 1.
Either way, weak 6/10. Na-yeon was my favorite character.
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The first half of the season I kept thinking this should have only been a movie. But the second half became more episodic and started to feel right as a series. All the way up until the final scene I kept wondering how or why a second season might come to be. And then the final scene happened and I want more.
On the flip-side, I'm not a fan of fast-moving zombies, I prefer my zombies slow and dumb. Just saying.
How I rate:
1-3 :heart: = seriously! don't waste your time
4-6 :heart: = you may or may not enjoy this
7-8 :heart: = I expect you will like this too
9-10 :heart: = movies and TV shows I really love!
Just finished watching this series and wow.
I love Korean products that talk about zombies, this amazed me, it was a mix of emotions. I laughed, cried, screamed, felt sorry for the characters, got upset about some adult choices, and empathized totally with them.
I find it a fantastic product, the relationships between people and the reactions they have really amazed me.
I hope a sequel comes out, I want to see them again.
Honestly, Squid Game was better. I know these series have nothing to do with each other aside from being Korean but I feel like it needs to be said. These last few years have been interesting for Korean media with some receiving worldwide acclaim to others seemingly taking over the world for a few weeks. When I found this one I was expecting it to be the next Korean hit that I would be late to the party to but enjoy after finishing it, unfortunately I didn't.
As it progressed, I could feel its quality slipping as I took what was going on less and less seriously with its many cry bait moments (almost like the show was expecting its amorphous cast of forgettable zombie food to be missed) and comical scenes during serious situations. On top of that, this show is unnecessarily long and possibly could've done without 3 of its 12 episodes.
Although if there's one thing ill praise it's the cinematography, well aside from the occasional strange low frame rate shots that look like an editing/rendering mistake and weird instant replays.
All of Us Are Dead is an average zombie show like the thousands of others before it and while I had hoped it wouldn't slip my mind immediately after finishing it because of the promise shown in its first few episodes, Ultimately it fell headfirst into the unending void in my mind where unmemorable shows go to be forgotten forever.
It's good, slightly annoying when a hybrid doesn't die, like come on man! And how come so few were hybrids, nevertheless, enjoyable.
A good first half season with a good pace : calm >> trouble >> run >> cry >> think >> run...
But this good pace is then broken in the seconf half with the introduction of the "I am bad and I am after your left eye raaah" character.
.You will then spend half of the season watching a very bad korean remake of Scream.
At this point, zombies became useless, they are there just to remind Us of the serie title.
...they maybe introduced those characters to make this first season longer and give a way to a second one but doing that this way, the entire show became less than average.
Sometimes this show is unbelievably stupid, but other than that it is an interesting spin on zombie apocalypse genre, can't wait for season 2
Review by BLAQKVIP 7BlockedParentSpoilers2022-01-31T03:02:21Z
I just watched the entirety of it and I gotta say it’s good. It’s not a massive banger and there are some really dubious moments that left me scratching my head, but overall the show was quite engaging, the zombies were utterly disturbing to behold and the characters were almost all pretty likeable with a few obvious exceptions.
I do think the show could’ve been condensed though. Some stories are basically dropped halfway through or they lead into nothing.
The chasing scenes are really great. It kept me on the edge most of the time.
The characters acted their age. I actually understand how they hesistate most of the time. They are just highschool students, of course they are not that mature yet. It would be more out of character if they suddenly become good at fighting or if they would able to think strategically most of the time.
The supporting casts are great. That scene where one girl saw her parents as zombies inside their car is very emotional.
As much as I like how the writers are not afraid to kill characters, I think that some of the deaths are unecessary. Cheon sang and Wu jin’s death have no weight at all. Unlike joon yeong.
Na yeon should have died when she went out of the broadcasting room or when the music room was raided by zombies. Being killed by gwi nam is totally unecessary. Why did she even survived? All she did is to hide in the utility room. The teacher sacrificed her life so that she can have redemption.
I hoped the eun ji killed gwi nam instead.
I wished na ra was more aware of her new abilites as a halfbie. But maybe she was not able to do so because she constantly have to fight of the virus.