iZombie - 50 Shades of Grey Matter

A librarian not feeling particularly well collapses in the library after informing her fellow librarian about a student trying to push book shelves on top of her. Hemlock poisoning Ravi tells Clive as the investigation commences. Ravi was pleased with himself, waiting for Clive’s approval (as Liv tells him, an “Attaboy”) after the discovery of the hemlock in her system. The creep in the library trying to kill the older librarian was not allowed to use the computer because of his obsession with “snuff films”.

Muriel is the older librarian, Grace the poisoned murder victim. Grace’s husband, Andy, was a firefighter confined to  a wheelchair after a collapsed beam rendered him a paraplegic. His help is a muscled nurse.

The obvious comedy (besides a fun pun where Liv mentions she always felt a connection to Kristen Bell) is Grace’s brain and how after feeding on it leaves Liv very horny and often coming on to guys or imaging foreplay and sex with them! Rubbing Clive’s back while listening to Grace’s sultry audio novel, slapping Ravi on the ass and asking a return for her “naughty morgue assistant behavior” (!!!)

Go forth. Direct your lust elsewhere.

When Drake, Mr. Boss’ “muscle” (and under Blaine’s thumb to hurt Boss’ business while snitching to Blaine) arrives at the morgue, the Grace brain has Liv fighting serious sexual urges!

If McIver ever was as sexy as she is in this episode, I don’t recall it. This brain allows her to go full nympho! The way she can’t help but want to fuck Drake’s brains out, eyeing him lasciviously, as he simply asks for help in getting brains so he isn’t such a stooge for Blaine—it could be the eye shadow, her pale skin, and bright blues, with her shirt’s dark shade of red matching her understated makeup—biting her lower lip, closing in tight, not exactly subdued in her attractive interest. She later starts to wear her shirts somewhat unbuttoned so the bosom could be more revealing, with her lower skirt tighter on her hips to submit her contours and features for public viewing.

I just wanna say I can’t help but enjoy the cute sex jokes shared between Bozzio and Clive. His lap in response to taking her last bit of drink as he chokes on the sip is amusing. Blaine is the topic of their conversation. How does Blaine worm his way out of an arrest? He always manages to. I love the end of the series where he gets a final resting place where his life of criminality and death comes to a halt.

Turns out the sexy flight attendant, “Ally”, is the inspiration for Grace’s novel. Her exploits were the gold that gave Grace the details, barely finessing the character’s differences  from the source. Meanwhile Clive and Liv discover that Muriel had written her own novel, a murder mystery where the weapon of use was hemlock, the death through poisoning.

It is really cringy seeing Peyton falling for Blaine as he helps her put together a case against Mr. Boss. He pretends to be a U-slinging reformer. She has been “without” since Ravi, even admitting to Liv she was purchasing Grace’s audio book because of her absence of sex. When she arrives “on her white horse” to rescue Blaine from certain serious jail time (voided by his cooperation in helping her go after Mr. Boss) after Clive and Bozzio are sure he could be the Chaos Killer (Major Lilywhite, who, in this episode, must rid a bugged collar from a dog of a rich tech guy he killed) and involved with the Meat Cute massacre (Suzuki writing Blaine’s name in blood, with Blaine’s father, Angus, mentioned among the Chao Killer’s victims), nabbing him for an old charge from the past drug dealing, it does look like her helping him could be a very bad mistake. Later, when visiting Liv, she gets the whole back story: she slept with pure evil. His killing teenagers and selling their brains to zombies for food, nearly killing Major, turning Liv into a zombie, almost killing Liv’s brother, a long body count Peyton couldn’t have anticipated. He is her case against Mr. Boss. Again, she slept with this dirtbag.

Minor, the dog that was staying at Major and Ravi’s shared home, had become a member of the family. So letting Minor go in order to not be implicated for its owner’s death was a decision that just emotionally devastates Major. And Ravi’s expression of loss when told that Minor was picked up by its “true owners” says a lot about how a dog can be such a source of great affection and love.

Peyton admits to Liv she slept with Blaine, while Liv gets that look of concern (that has become an iconic McIver expression I’ve grown quite accustomed to time and again because with every smile and bright spot that comes many more moments of great indecision and troubled water brings that worried face) when she walks to her bedroom as Drake lies in her bed. That you think you know the person you sleep with, wondered by a disheartened and weary Peyton, does resonate with Liv. Clive and Bozzio having to release Blaine and Clive telling Peyton whatever he does next is on her definitely is the moment of the episode that sits with me the most because fans of iZombie know all too well that he’s far from done. 3/5