I missed this TV series in its initial run, I was in the habit of watching something else and we don't have a DVR. Now I am watching it at my leisure, without commercials, on Netflix streaming.
What they have done is write a series around the usual crimes and detectives solving them. The novelty here is that a medical student gets bitten at a party near Lake Washington in Seattle, she becomes a Zombie but finds that if she eats brains she can salvage her humanity. So she gets a job at the medical examiner's lab where she has a constant supply of brains.
The nice surprise is that after she eats a dead person's brain she is able to see, in certain flashes, what happened to them. This way she can help the detective solve the murders that likely would otherwise go unsolved.
The series works so well because of the chemistry of the three main characters. New Zealander Rose McIver, doing a very convincing American accent, is the med student turned Zombie 'Liv' Moore. Her associate in the lab is Rahul Kohli as Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti. And the detective she cooperates with is Malcolm Goodwin as Clive Babineaux. Each is so good in her or his role that it would be hard to imagine any other actors playing those characters.
Made for hour-long shows each episode is about 41 minutes without commercials.
It has become one of my new favorites.
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