iZombie - Yipee Ki Brain, Motherscratcher!

I certainly felt this episode of the fourth season was my favorite thus far. I've been a bit indifferent towards the fourth season overall, though. But Liv and Major constantly at odds has been certainly a source of melodrama for the show. Major has certainly tested my patience, although he seems to operate under a code of law that opposes Liv's feelings that the right to decide regarding whether or not to choose zombie or death is up to each individual. But the problem with brain supply is a legit concern that does have weight in the argument. Bozzio confronting Liv, in full rebellious asshole cop mode, about her behavior while Clive remains powerless to come between them was hilarious (I didn't mention this in my IMDb review below). Her just tossing the papers up in the air without signing them...

Enrico Colantoni, of “Veronica Mars” fame, guest stars in (and directs) “Yipee Ki Brain, Motherscratcher!” as a questionable cop murdered while in a confessional (copping to a litany of sins). Liv just dives right into his brain without the additional cooking cuisine efforts, adopting his vigilante, dirty cop antics and lingo! Her swapping action movie title quips in a clever exchange with Ravi while Clive tries to have an investigative conversation had me smiling ear to ear. Liv adopting the “bad cop” interrogative pose and attitude and running down that same suspect with a fish on the street (which resulted in her being suspended by Bozzio because it was recorded!) are priceless. Ravi’s parental regard for teenage Isobel, dealing with the knowledge of her eventual demise in a rather sobering and mature (but obviously sad) way, is touching. I genuinely enjoyed this episode and consider it perhaps the best of the rather okay fourth season. It is gradually building towards a big climax as Major’s loyalties to either Liv or Chase Graves begins to confront him. The increasing number of “intruders” seeking “zombie asylum”, coyote led into the city through the help of “renegade” Liv and her team will certainly hamper the doctrine of Fillmore/Graves, completely defying what they have discouraged and militarily oppose. It will most definitely come to a head. But Liv’s decision to help the sick and dying turn zombie in order not to “die” while Major serves Graves’ brand of “law enforcement” represents quite a dichotomy/challenge. That difference in opinion between the former lovers is the engine of tension that continues to keep Liv and Major apart (and has encouraged Liv to bond with ally, Levon). And Graves’ team actually holding prisoner a smuggled outsider for interrogation, undermined by Levon and Liv’s handiwork (scratching the young man so he would turn zombie), using Major’s car as a distraction further separates them. The subplot I never saw coming was Blaine being so emotionally taken aback by his estranged zombie father’s change in fatherly behavior towards him (sacrificing a horrible nanny he once allowed to harm Blaine as a child through great punishment of significant severity) he becomes seemingly converted to Angus’ church, complete with leading, “Amazing Grace”! Wow. Isobel (Izabela Vidovic) has become a treasured member of the cast in such a short amount of time, even bringing Liv, Levon, and Ravi together with her to binge watch a show called Zombie High.