iZombie - Looking for Mr. Goodbrain Part 2 / My Final episode

 It was August 2017 and I wanted to feature a fun zombie series for the blog. So I chose iZombie, and I felt, for the most part, that this series gave me plenty to truly enjoy. It had a cast that remained so much fun. They had dynamic personalities and good chemistry. There were clever episode titles, each chapter of the plot in each episode had witty play on pop culture coming back from commercial, McIver had such an opportunity to slip into such a variety of personalities and personas, offering her the chance to hold onto Liv while also portraying whatever character the brain she eats comes from. There were police investigations, typically involving Liv eating the brain of the victim in order to solve murders. Clive was for quite some time oblivious to Liv's zombie state, as she receives visions from the brain, triggered by encounters with people or familiar things. Liv and Major continued with an on again / off again romance that finally concluded with them together. Clive had and lost Dale, then won her back, but Dale was turned a zombie thanks to tainted vaccine, thanks to Chase Graves and Fillmore-Graves. Peyton and Ravi, also had an on again / off again relationship, with Blaine often even disrupting things. So as much as this is a zom-com, it is also a soap opera and police procedural, with the zombie later symbolizing marginalized groups. Seattle is eventually cut off by the rest of the country, with zombies considered a potential threat if brains ever stopped arriving into the city. Humans in Seattle who are on death's door could be turned zombie and be spared death. Humans who consider zombies a threat often do react violently and fear them.

Carey Gold is outed by Chase as the one responsible for the death of Wally and Katty, realizing she was also responsible for the Aleutian flu scare, wanting a zombie apocalypse where humans fall to starving zombies. She believes she'll put down Chase with a few officers supporting her, not anticipating Chase's quick draw talents. Clive certainly appreciates Chase's quick draw talents once he learns that she killed Wally and his family. Liv seeing through Katty's eyes at Carey preparing her for her death while in a trunk provides enough evidence that Chase wasn't the one responsible for Katty's murder. As far as Carey's daughter and Tatum Weckler, they are all for an entire city of Seattle turned into zombies, with Liv having to fend them off (and ultimately kicking their ass in epic fashion).

Major choosing to be a zombie again I obviously knew because I watched the fourth and fifth seasons before the third, but I admittedly groaned when he asks Chase to turn him. After all that work by Ravi to get him a legit zombie cure, it is right back to where he was before out of loyalty to Fillmore-Graves. Major is especially gung ho after Natalie and his brothers were killed by Harley Johns through that house explosion. And with certain humans, equipped with weapons, charging at Major and Justin (and other officers representing Fillmore-Graves), this is a pivotal moment during the series.

Johnny Frost, using his famed Seattle reporter status to move through a line for a tainted vaccine for the Aleutian flu, being the one who must tell the city that anyone who hasn't gotten the vaccine they must not take it while those who did are now a zombie seems fitting for the series. Liv entrusts that with Johnny, knowing that Graves' officers were preparing a whole bunch of tainted vaccine for the entire populace of the city. Justin turning on Liv is also a very dramatic and potent moment in the episode. Because she slept with Chase thanks to the Katty brain, Justin feels betrayed...yet another relationship down the tubes for Liv.

Also a huge development in the episode is Liv turning Ravi into a zombie at the end to test his zombie cure. The very last scene means a lot to me because Ravi brings up Liv's first day in his lab, discovering her eating brain. It made me smile because this being my final episode, even if out of order, it seems fitting to conclude the series with these two in the lab discussing their beginnings...and saying "I Love You" to each other.

Blaine and Don E's Scratching Post does gain a whole lot of business since a lot of Seattle is now zombie. And Blaine's brain business will certainly pick up, particularly when he can offer quite the luxury brain to the richest customer. Considering Chase was pulling his officers from attending the Scratching Post and buying brains from him. There was a funny scene involving a whole bunch of zombies dancing in unison inside the Scratching Post while Don E is amused and Blaine is just not in the mood.

No matter what happens in iZombie, Liv is almost always importantly involved. Her getting the word out about the tainted vaccine, forcing Chase to confront the city with a video about zombies in Seattle, telling them about how humans and zombies can co-exist without violence if certain measures are considered. This episode was certainly a big deal for the series. The secret was out and the city would never be the same. No more hiding and like a bomb going off, human behavior would indeed change in a variety of ways the next two seasons would recognize as zombies had to adapt to phobia, bigotry, and fear. There were humans willing to be good allies with them, while others would reject zombies outright. 5/5

Clive finally tells Dale about zombies

Major convinces Chase to scratch him

Upper torso zombie in the suburb