Zombieverse

At first I thought this will be a horror series. Like a proper fictional story where there is a zombie outbreak but it is already been tamed (much like the end of shaun of the dead) and these characters join this game show where the have to do challenges while also escaping the zombies (basically squid game but with zombies). And it'll be shot much like we are watching a reality show.

But alas, the show is basically just role play.

Knowing these people are actually safe made it hard to believe in it. As well as them unable to truly hurt the zombies (since they are just real people), makes the whole thing kinda stupid (not that I endorsed violence but it is like watching people do tag and run but with zombies).

Dex is the star of the show for sure, but it also made the others looked incompetent by a lot.

A zombie reality show in a so-called "unscripted" setting is a recipe for disaster. I couldn't take it seriously when it was painfully obvious to me that the cast were just acting like they were seeing zombies in real life saying "they'll die" and stuff like that. It felt like the show was belittling my intelligence. And it also made the zombies acting seem fake and not scary.

I can't believe Netflix halted production of a brilliant series like All Of Us Are Dead season 2 and also Kingdom 3 for this, just because this reality show needed the zombie art and choreography team of the former 2 shows. Netflix should better stick with producing zombie fictious series like AOUAD which has proved to be one of the best in the world.

People need to understand that "unscripted" doesn't mean that the cast knows nothing. Obviously they do know that they're in a reality show and what they need to do to survive, otherwise they would harm the zombie-actors. But their reactions and characters seemed genuine to me. I found it really funny and interesting. It is a reality show, so you don't have to question their actions, it's not a movie nor a series. Some people didn't like the fact that the cast laughed and seemed to enjoy it, but I really liked that, because it made it more genuine for me. I think that it was really entertaining and I would like to see another season with different cast!

Lets be honest, South Korea produces the best zombie shows and movies. As a huge fan of the zombie genre I spent no time downloading the whole show on netflix so I could watch it on my vacation. I spent the first 15 to 30 minutes figuring out what was going on. I completely lost it when they mentioned it was "unscripted". Sure there was no script to follow but the whole show was made to look like a reality show where the characters have no clue what is going on when it is very obvious they are in on the show. The very convenient cut between the episodes gives them enough time for makeup and prop setup. Now I was stuck on a vacation with nothing else to watch except for this. The more I watched the more I felt I was losing my braincells. There was nothing to look forward to. The characters are real life celebrities that had nothing to offer. There were no stakes. Just a bunch of fake zombies, and fake characters.

Casts made it a cheap reality show. If they were to truly face zombie apocalypse, they won't even survive for an hour. From the first episode, they all were wasting energies running and screaming while accomplishing simple quests. They'd have die of exhaustion from all those running and screaming around in real situation, if not from zombie bites. That's not how you survive an apocalypse. If the show was really unscripted, then I'll have to say they are the dumbest surviver ever with lowest iq. It was really frustrating to continue watching.

I'm giving it 2 stars because there were some rarely funny moments I enjoyed. But overall it'll feel like waste of time.