Resist your urges.
Warning: Full spoilers for the iZombie: Season 3 finale below.
You have to hand it to iZombie for not playing it safe, with Season 3 functioning as a huge game-changer in a way that truly earned that oft-used descriptor.
It really feels as though the series is now moving into a much more fantastical, “alternate universe” place going forward. Look, obviously any series that is about zombies is fantasy from the start, of course, but with so many of Seattle’s citizens now transformed – and the truth about their existence now revealed – we’re now much more in “What if?” terrain and a look at how society would function under these incredible circumstances.
The glimpses we got at the end of those brain distribution stations, scared/angry humans attacking said stations, and Fillmore Graves essentially running the show, all set in place a very exciting Season 4 that upends all of the “will Liv and the other zombies’ identities be revealed?” aspects iZombie was fueled by for much of its run until now.
Initially, the early scenes of the finale were a bit messy. While iZombie usually deftly mixes so many different tones, it felt a bit jarring to go from the aftermath of that explosion -- and Liv, Ravi and Peyton’s relief that Major and Justin survived -- to Justin immediately asking Liv where she was and her owning up to sleeping with Chase – and then jumping right into so many other subplots. It just felt like the explosion was such a big deal when it happened, we would have spent a bit more time feeling the weight of it then we did here.
I was also a bit let down when Carey Gold was revealed as the mastermind behind most of what happened this season, simply because Carey never made much of an impression in her appearances and suddenly was being given so much importance. However, this reveal was wisely done before the halfway mark of the finale (and led to a satisfying moment when Chase deftly dealt with her and some men helping her) so that what really became pivotal was not Carey as “the villain” but what she’d put into motion and how it wasn’t going to be stopped now.
A lot of great moments followed, including Major – who, narratively, carried the weight of the house explosion – having Chase turn him back into a zombie again, the reveal of what the vaccine really does (and it impacting Dale and Clive in a massive way), and some standout scenes for Johnny Frost, who no doubt regrets using his status to cut that line now.
The final scene between Liv and Ravi was especially poignant, including a wonderfully emotional beat, perfectly played by Rose McIver and Rahul Kohli, as they told each other they loved each other (no, not in that way – in the dear friend way we already knew they did!), in the wake of Ravi deciding to be the guinea pig to try out his new zombie vaccine. Which is totally going to work, right? Right?!
Bullet points:
-Before everyone found out about zombies, Dale did first, and it was really fun to see how Tanner’s arrest led the savvy FBI agent to put Clive on the spot over all the weirdness that she was seeing happen all over again.
-I can see why “Choreographer blue brain” was such a hit! That looked like one hell of a fun night at the Scratching Post!
-Liv taking some Max Rager to amp up, only to have no idea how to control her jumps and land in the pool, was a wonderfully funny way to undercut Super Liv.
-Major’s buddy Zach dragging what was left of his body -- all zombied out – and then getting run over sure was notably macabre.
-Once more iZombie had some great song choices here, including XTC’s “Dear God.”
The Verdict
iZombie’s season finale felt a bit jumbled at points, with a lot of information being rapidly given, but ultimately was an audacious episode that changed the entire dynamic of the series in a massive way. The core dynamic of the series has now been shook up, and it’s very exciting to ponder how things will play out in Season 4, now that Discovery Day has in fact arrived.
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