It was only a matter of time before Zombies joined the ranks of Werewolves and Vampires as merely misunderstood victims of an unfortunate accident. In The Flesh tells the story of a recovering Zombie, a victim of Partially Dead Syndrome, who needs a daily shot of medication to keep his brain-eating tendencies at bay. The local chapter of the neighborhood watch wants to drag him into the street and kill him. And he keeps having these flashbacks of the last people killed and another zombie he used to hunt with. All in all, he’s having a difficult time adjusting.
In The Flesh is basically five years after Shaun of The Dead, there are people who survived and zombies who survived, and where do we go from here? I guess the logical thing to do would be to kill all the zombies, but then, the Allies didn’t kill all the Nazis, did they? So the Doctors have found a cure for Partially Dead Syndrome, but there are zombies that don’t want to be cured. There is a Zombie Messiah who wants the zombies to be true to who/what they are. One of our hero’s friend’s takes some drug and turns back into a brain lusting monster. He is ‘taken care of” by the staff of the hospital.
I liked In The Flesh. The effects were very good, the acting was great, and I have to say I loved it when Mom and Dad decided to protect their Zombie son with a spiked Cricket bat and- wait for it – a chainsaw.
One of the issues not seriously addressed is how our zombie hero lives-since he no longer eats brains and he no longer eats regular food either. But then, he is only partially alive, so I guess it doesn’t matter that much.
Like many British Tv Shows, my only real complaint about In The Flesh is that it’s only going to be a limited run-in this case only three episodes.
