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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.

Some fun moments and ideas here and there but overall its just pretty bad and annoying.

The Bad: -Some actors cannot decide if they are in a zombie apocalypse or in a reality-tv show. (half-assed acting comes of as bad and annoying) -Absolutely horrible acting with annoying fake crying by some of the cast.

-Being loud all the time when its supposed to be a zombie apocalypse takes away any small amount of immersion you might be lucky to find.

The Good: -Some of them are not trying so hard to act and it comes of much more fun and enjoyable.

-Some of them are actually good at acting.

-Hong Chul

Not recommended even for the diehard zombie fans.

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.

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.

Man!! I was so excited to watch this series. I literally waited a whole month for it to come out and now since it came out oh my God it is the worst webseries I have ever seen in my whole life. The camera keeps on turning left and right and it looks so fake. It looks nothing like a webseries of 2023 I am so disappointed I can't believe why Netflix would even buy these kind of webseries when they know people just gonna, give zero ratings so I suggest you don't waste your time. Thank you. I hope somebody from the movie is reading all these reviews and they can try to make a better movie or a web series next time. Better luck next time.

This was a great idea and the producers were clearly did their best. First, the good points, and there are a number of them:

1) Zombie effects were done quite well. This makes sense since it was apparently the same team as "All of Us are Dead" (hurry up with the next season!)

2) The storyline -- clearly difficult with an unscripted show -- was done really well, and the producers were clearly thinking cleverly while shooting went on to react to events and finished with a neat little denouement.

3) Some episodes' challenges were good and realistic for a zombie scenario -- finding items, rescuing survivors, finding working transport, etc., were done well and they were able to put little wrinkles on it with the unscripted nature that a scripted show would not have had.

4) Each contestant's character showed through their actions and narrative subtitles. This was good at inspiring fondness for some characters and dislike for others.

5) The contestants were clearly immersed enough to do things which hold some actual risk. Not hugely dangerous, but think things like jumping over barriers and climbing fairly high objects without nets/wires/etc., and "fighting" zombies (no stabbings or hammer strikes to the head, but definitely hard pushes, throws, etc.).

6) Tsuki is adorable.

Now, the bad points:

1) Obviously all the contestants knew they weren't in an actual zombie situation. Most were still able to act as though they were, but Rong-Chul in particular could not suppress a grin even during scenes that should have been intensely terrifying (well, except one that seemed to really shock him). Additionally, sometimes many of the actors were either overcome by silliness or made decisions they quite clearly would not have made during an actual zombie apocalypse.

2) While many of the challenges were pretty good, a couple of them also got into some silliness. Quiet (nonzombie) portions of the show also looked a lot more like variety talk shows than any kind of drama.

3) The survivors all being celebrities at themselves was a bit weird (at one point, a survivor even asks why there were so many celebrities clustered into the same country grocery store). It was even weirder when they tried to use their celebrity status to convince others they were trustworthy.

4) The presence of "NPCs" who served to guide events was a bit distracting. Early episodes handled this pretty well to do the initial setup, but some of the later NPC interactions were sort of blunt.

Overall, I enjoyed the show, though, and would look forward to another season.

A few episodes in, and i like this somewhat improvised reality show. From their reactions, etc., it seemed to me the contestants were told they'd start out being on a reality dating-type show but that "something" would happen and they would then be on their own.

I can't imagine that this is any more than minimally scripted, because the producers obviously spent a lot of time setting up the various locations and situations, and it doesn't make any sense that they would do that for people who are just reading lines. From their reactions as the dating show starts to go sideways they seemed genuinely taken by surprise.

The "something" turns out to be a zombie apocalypse, which they are supposed to somehow survive. They travel around together to complete various escape-related tasks (and try to avoid being taken out by the zombies). You can also tell the zombies are really into the concept.

For imported shows like this, i much prefer the original audio accompanied by subtitles. The voiceover is kind of bland, and doesn't really match what was very likely more honest reactions to what's going on. Would recommend for fans of reality (and, sure, zombie stuff too)

It was silly and funny to watch. I actually came here to read reviews because I was really not sure about it. They way the promoted it, that the contestants didn't know made me scoff, because if they were going to fake it and really scare people like some elaborate prank, some of those zombie actors would be dead. Seriously, I have watched enough zombie shows that I would weapon up because I'd need to. And then there were rules?

One comment said they thought of it as a murder mystery, everyone got their rolls and then went for it. That actually put it in perspective for me and I was able to laugh and just enjoy the sillyness.

I can't even watch past 30 min, my head is so painful because of the camera keep turning here and there, and the contestant is screaming here and there so loud, then my head hurts. To be frank is the worse zombie show or reality show I have ever watch... I was so excited to watch this before it air.. now I'm disappointed.. I am watching with my husband until he told me shall we stop, cause is very lame, I say ok. Let's stop here. I think I am better watching some other drama than watching this, quite disappointing, i don't find it funny too maybe I'm not a fan of reality show, it is very lame.

I know it's meant to be shot like a cheap reality show but this makes those seem like Oscar winning cinematographer shot it.

The actors are annoying as hell and I wanted none of them to survive from their first introductions

The dialogue is supposed to be improvised but it's repeated over and over again and nobody can seem to say anything with conviction

Avoid this at all costs. Just boring , dull and a waste of time.

The rest is filler Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Not boring , just kidding it is.

Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring.

This might be the worst TV show I've ever seen in my life. Who on earth would want to watch a group of random idiots pretending to scream and cry for 8 hours? People complain all the time how these reality shows are scripted, but we are supposed to believe this zombie crap? This is so stupid I feel like it should be taken off the streaming platform. Watching something this cringe really does make you physically uncomfortable. I don't know how anyone could make it past 10 minutes of this garbage. What's really sad is that a show about scaring people with zombies could have been amazing, so I'm confused why they didn't do that instead.

As soon as it was released, I rushed to download all the episodes at the same time. After watching the first fifteen minutes of the first episode, I regretted wasting my wifi on it. Even if this was some sort of game and the contestants were improvising their next moves, it was horrible.

The contestants were annoying. (Unnecessary screams, laughing even in serious situations, keep attracting zombies.) Bad quality and production. (The same scene would repeat three times in different angles.) Which was also annoying.

To be fair, I would give episode 5 my best review. It was the only episode that I enjoyed and the only hilarious episode that made me laugh. So yes; look forward to it.

Every character, zombies included, had a radio and battery pack on the back of their belt visible throughout the entire show. It makes sense the main characters, thinking they were on a TV show at the start, may have had an excuse to wear one but the zombies? How did the main characters not see and comment on that?

Most characters were wearing a jacket or something baggie to try and hide it, but when you watch the so-called zombies stretching, trying to reach someone on top of a car, they were clearly visible.

I wanted to believe and get sucked into the story but couldn't find any way to invest in this show once I saw that. I can't go higher than 2/10 = cringey!

Lets make one thing clear, THIS is a game show, this is not an epic story with high stakes, no, this, is a game show. The survivors are contestants, you lose when you die. Those are the stakes.

I dont BLAME ANYONE for thinking otherwise because the show does a terrible job of presenting this fact and i had to look it up because i was confused. It also doesnt help that the actors aka the players, i THINK were encouraged or told to make characters out of themselves, to try and have a story going on of their own making,

This is where i think the show messes up, its trying to have a cake and eat it too, they dont play it straight enough. All this has is a psuedo narrative dissonance where the show acts like this is a real drama, but then the contestants are laughing smiling another moment. They really should of just dropped it. Have the only story being setting up the scenario in question, and treat it like a 100% game show.

That being said, as a game show it is pretty neat, theres very little guidance meaning the players basically get told the objectives, and work everything else from there! Sometimes not even that and have to figure out the objectives on the fly. Turning some of the scenarios into zombie flavored escape rooms

Have your finger on the fast forward button when you get bored of the fluff, and just enjoy a neat lil game show.

It hurts the money invested in this series is the worst zombie reality series I've seen in chapter 2 I said no more.. I wanted to give it a chance but it's going very very sad and boring this very bad series.. how can netflix cancel we are dead to produce such a bad series (zombierso).. Please, I hope they do not produce a second season since it is very bad in terms of acting, the plot of the series, the zombies are not zombies, it is very badly acted, The degree of acting is so bad.. they should release another type of zombie series, this is not dirty, what they do is waste time..

ATT: defender and lover of the zombie apocalypse.

Season 2: LOL Defconn? From Live Solo on the show? A contestant? Maybe he can finally find a wife and let's hope she doesn't turn into a Zombie! So happy to see DEX - it wouldn't be good w/o DEX and he proves his worth with UDT soldier expertise right from the beginning in ep. 1; he is so handsome and manly, in contrast to some of the other cute but scaredy cat guys (no names but you will see in ep. 1). Will raise my rating to a 9 just for entertainment value. Its cheesy and fun at the same time so have fun with it. Also noticed Code Kunst's military skills and how he steps up to the plate and does what he needs to do too.

Season 1: I gave it an 8 mostly for DEX (fans of DEX know who he is) and for comedy value as I found it extremely funny from the very beginning. It can't be serious but I've seen some great acting amongst the zombies - it is advertised as unscripted per se, but we all know it is fake so it comes out as hilarious. The one actor contestant with the hat with the ear flaps is laughing the whole time - even he can't help it. Dex is playing his cool self as usual and figures out how to escape the zombies in an early quest using his UDT soldier experience. Am kind of wondering if it isn't treated kind of like a mystery dinner where each contestant is given their roll to play in advance, but there is no script. Have no idea about the producing but each episode is a different quest (gas station, grocery store, etc). Will have to see how this ends - 8 episodes in all.

I love anything zombie and add in Lee Si Young and this was a must watch for me. Like others, I thought this was going to be an actual series not a reality show. Funny thing being I ended up really loving this show, even the "unscripted" moments. Really felt like I was watching a variety show with all the little quirks and moments I tend to enjoy with that type of format. I don't think we'll get another season which is to bad. With some "tweeking" this show could hit way more above its paygrade. Special shout out to Kim Jin-young from Singles Inferno Season 2, it was great to see him on the show as well.

"Zombieverse is a dream come true for me! The concept of a reality that genuinely scares people, all while keeping them in the dark about what's happening, is simply amazing. The incorporation of zombies adds a thrilling twist that I find absolutely captivating. I wish I could be a part of this project. However, the authenticity is where I hit a snag. Many reality shows feel fake, and even though Zombieverse claims to be unscripted, it's hard to ignore the moments that feel staged. The fear factor falls short when the victims don't appear as genuinely terrified as someone facing a true zombie apocalypse. A fantastic idea held back by its execution."

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.