The Stadium

Overall a good zombie series is definitely not bored, is not as good as there are so many ways to get there(TWD) but but I think it's better than FTWD, or it can come to a good level if it lasts 1-2 more season.

Because I think the story will be a little better as it will be a little more nomadic and more exciting instead of being colonized immediately.People who play zombies are playing a little amateur at the moment they need to choose a lot better,they should think more over some scenes because the big scene of conflict was ridiculous.

This is the most important event in zombie series that is realistic when it can be rea.So if you can't, you don't need big scenes.

I honestly don't get all of the hate is coming down on this show from other reviewers. They seem to like their zombie shows to have scads of dialogue, endless amounts of backstory, and not that many genuine scares at all. This series, however, delivers the goods. Sure, it's not like other shows that take their time developing characters, but it's hard to say that the characters in this series don't get some development with time. Rose, for example, goes from a somewhat weepy housewife to the unquestioned leader of the pack. Also, the charactet of Sun doesn't speak a word of English , and yet she is given one of the most moving monologues in the entire series , one which you don't have to understand in order to get the depth of its emotion. Then there's Barbara, who gets a very haunting speech about the first time she saw a zombie and tried to figure out whether there was anything human left in there , which is exactly the same sort of philosophy that comes up in the early episodes of other zombie shows . Surely all that's worth getting some credit for.

Two of the other saving graces for the show is the use of fast zombies and an incredibly virulent infection a la 28 DAYS LATER that turns the recently departed into zombies even before their hearts have stopped beating ( and in one case arguably before it stops beating, but the show isn't perfect). Fast zombies have always been more frightening to me than the type that we get in THE WALKING DEAD. In fact, the characters in that show probably only get character development because they have so much free time running away from fast-moving former corpses. There's also something terrifying about the idea then if you accidentally kill someone, you'd better get busy and kill them immediately again because they will become an immediate threat. This conceit creates some of the best tension in the show, because it means that the inevitable human bad guys cannot be so easily dispatched as they are in THE WALKING DEAD.

Another great source of tension is the use of hand-held cameras and very quickly shot scenes. Admittedly, in some of the episodes, this works against the story a bit because it's a little too easy to get lost in all of the blurriness. That being said, it is a good visual representation of the chaos of the characters themselves are going through, and you rarely get that sort of thing in those previously mentioned Zombie series.

Mind you, as I said, the series is not perfect. There are few characters, such as Spears, who we would really like to learn more about. There are also some characters the carry the idiot ball so long and so hard that you have to wonder how they survived the initial outbreak at all (Lance, you're cute and all, but God, you are an idiot). And then there's the aforementioned conversion that happens almost instantaneously, before a character has even died. It would be nice if this virus were somewhat consistent.

That being said, this show did for me was another reviewer here said it did for him: it genuinely scared him. I can't remember the last time I watched a horror movie or television series that I had to take breaks from in order to come down from. I never had to do that with THE WALKING DEAD. So why are so many reviewers using that show as they were yardstick to measure this one, when they have really nothing in common except for the ravenous Undead?

Sure its cheesey but its sweet seeing your home town in a show.

Netflix's Zombie drama, produced by "The Asylum" has a promising start, but fades badly and despite just eight episodes probably isn't worth your time.

Though the series focuses on a bunch of characters, if it has a centre it's Jamie King's character Rose, who is attempting to cross the unnamed city to get to the stadium where her daughter has been evacuated to "safety". With the rabid infected frantically killing whoever they come across, and several human groups having gone (seemingly immediately) full murder cult crossing the city is a dangerous proposition.

I'm going to split the review into stages here, because I felt differently at different points. Firstly, after the first two episodes. Here I felt the show was promising. We're a few weeks into the burgeoning crisis, with the military still having some form of control. I liked how the series differentiated itself from "The Walking Dead" by using the fast manic infected, rather than the shambling shuffling version. This has, of course, been done before in something like "28 Days Later" but it distinguish itself further by having characters "turn" at the moment of death rather than reawaken at some point in the future. This can make for an interesting dynamic as the odds can very quickly turn in the infecteds favour. The show is also different by having named "chapters" and jumping around the intertwining characters various narratives before pulling them together. If the show was better written throughout, this could have been an excellent storytelling tool, but I'm getting ahead of myself.

Secondly, episodes three to five. Things are starting to get a little shaky now, mostly around how much I believe in the "world building" of the show. The fourth episode has to be one of the most infuriating episodes of any series I've ever seen. The character of Lance is so useless, so incapable that there's no way he would have survived the six weeks or so, that I believe we are into this crisis. His refusal to lock, block or even in some cases shut doors whilst being chased is staggeringly dumb, as is his refusal to arm himself until the last possible moment. Other aspects of the show, like the infected inability to break through a glass window when the plot requires, starts to become questionable. The feral schoolkids too, murdering and booby trapping the school, seem way too far along if we are only six weeks into this crisis. There's still food in the super markets, why they're luring people to their doom isn't explained

Finally, Six to Eight. Here it starts to become a bit baffling. Our rag tag bunch of survivors move from mistrust and in fighting to become a stealthy infiltration team and conduct a heist worthy of "Ocean's Eleven". There is no bonding, or planning shown, so much so I thought we'd missed an episode and went and checked . Rose flirts with mental instability, or perhaps PTSD very briefly and then we reach the repetitive and banal conclusion. In which hundreds of people are shot, or are bit and none of it matters, as if the somehow the spectacle of it is supposed to be enough. (Although the ending that I assumed we were heading towards from the beginning is avoided).

"Black Summer" is a promising idea in a filled market that is ultimately let down by sub-standard writing and too much repetition. Hopefully, if there is a second season, it will be more constant in this.

A blonde haired white woman, a black man in an outdated U.S. Army Uniform, and a Korean girl walk into a bar.

The bar tender says...........

This series needs to continue, as unlike all the other Zombie Apocalypse TV Series that really are getting lame and repetitive.

Or maybe not, if they do not have more new material. Rating 8.