iZombie - Season 3

So... was Blaine's hair always that colour?

Season 2 of iZombie wrapped up an ongoing conspiracy plot involving an energy drink that makes people into zombies, and introduced another, as PMC Filmore Graves was revealed to be a front for the coming zombie state, devoted to staving off 'D-Day' (discovery day) until they are ready to establish a zombie homeland.

Man this review requires a lot of use of the z-word.

Liv and her crew ally themselves with Filmore Graves, while Ravi keeps working on his cure. Major joins FG's zombie strike team, since no-one else will give the Chaos Killer a job, even if he is only the Chaos Kidnapper, and then has to be cured (the first cure having terminal side-effects.) Relief when he turns out not to have lost his memory is tempered by the realisation that ex-pusher turned zombie underworld leader Blaine has been lying about his own amnesia, including to his sometime lover Peyton, who becomes a full-time cast member this season. Also unfortunate is the fact that the remaining stocks of the cure go missing before Liv can be cured, the last having been given away by Major in a fit of do-right altruism. In addition, word of the zombie massacre at the Max Rager party gets out and anti-zombie activism becomes a thing, leading to the murder of a zombie family who turn out to have been old friends of Clive.

iZombie has a lot of good points, although most of them are mirrored in other series. It is, however, one of the very few series where a man (Ravi, in this case) acts like a dick over love and no-one cuts him an ounce of slack. Rose McIver's chameleonic ability to shift persona with Liv's brain-diet remains impressive, as is the fact that when she calls to warn the FG team that they are heading into a trap, their uptight, military leader accepts the word of a proven source, instead of dismissing her as female or a civilian. I've lost track of the number of lives lost to warnings being dismissed that way. I still don't trust FG, and suspect them of stealing the cure. Fortunately, there is a Season 4 on the way to answer lingering questions.