Zombieland: The Series Se1 Ep01:
Pilot
We get a great introduction to Tallahassee and his semi origins,
in a funny scene while in the background the world goes to shit. I did feel in
the first few minutes here it was trying too hard to be funny thankfully this
wasn’t a constant theme.
Back too two months after the original we have a quick
catch up on the characters Columbus, Wichita and Little Rock. A few seemed to
be ret-conned like the relationship between Columbus and Wichita until a bit
later we get a silly break up explanation to what happened, we also get no
inkling of Tallahassee’s son yet in this episode.
It had some decent acting and was well written also some
minor serious bits, there was also some fun culture references like terminator.
One thing I noticed all the characters seemed like over the top caricatures of
the original films characters, this wasn’t a down point though.
A new character is introduced Detroit she provides
information to the team through what seems to be a radio in the car. She sets
up the story for the series, possibly that is they decide to look for a bastion
of civilisation.
The make-up and effects were typical but fine for a TV
series, over all the episode was a decent one and lots of funny moments though
nothing majorly side splitting.
All in all a good start to the series and something I could
see myself watching
A definite 4/5 stars for the first episode
I don't know why they tried to recast the original members. Why couldn't they just use original characters? Like you said, they seemed like caricatures of the original cast. Thought it was a real turnoff, and some of jokes fell pretty flat. I didn't think this series would last, and it looks like that was the case. Plus recasting Woody Harrelson's character with whoever that other dude was, was like recasting RDJ in Iron Man with the actor who played Dante in Clerks. I still liked your review though!
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