SummaryThe South Korean horror series based on the webtoon "Now at Our School" focuses on a group of high school students trapped by zombies invading their school.
SummaryThe South Korean horror series based on the webtoon "Now at Our School" focuses on a group of high school students trapped by zombies invading their school.
At a certain point, the proceedings do fall prey to a bit of exhausting repetition, vacillating as they do between teen squabbles and battles against swarms of voracious reanimated corpses who care only about sinking their teeth into necks, arms, and legs. Then again, All of Us Are Dead makes a compelling, and often thrilling, case that a viral apocalypse would ultimately become more than a bit monotonous—something that everyone in the real world can likely relate to right now.
Best show ever... The trauma of their death is still in my mind. All student who gave their lives just to protect their friends is the best things I saw here
Beyond the visceral thrill of watching zombies chow down on their unfortunate victims, All Of Us Are Dead puts social hierarchies and human beings’ mechanisms for survival under a microscope.
There are faint glimmers of a leaner, more confident show that peek through. ... For a show with nearly a 12-hour running time, though, there aren’t nearly enough to break a familiar story’s repetitive cycle.
The school plotlines really work, in large part thanks to continued ingenuity with the props and sets and the charismatic young cast, with Yoon Chan-young and Cho Yi-Hyun as notable standouts. The show’s weakness, then, lies beyond the labyrinthine school itself as it tries to view the outbreak from the outside in. Watching yet another military take on zombies, no matter how bone-crunchingly sickening the ones in “All of Us Are Dead” are, just isn’t that interesting after seeing so many other TV shows and movies do the same.
All of us are dead
Bursting with well executed zombie action scenes and a plot that's as emotional as it is dire and dreadful. It is also teeming with an array of characters that you would love and hate. It starts and ends well, in a way that accommodates a second season if approved.
It was also overly long and drawled, leaving room for so much redundancy. A lesser number of episodes with shorter runtime would have worked better.
Here's a good news: A zombie show in which the military is not stupid.
As for the bad news: Everyone else exposed to zombies somehow loses brain cells.
I'm not saying I won't make mistakes if I'm chased by a zombie horde, I'll probably panic. But that's the problem. A lot of deaths are caused by choices during "calm" moments.
Example withou spoils: No one makes weapons or try to find weapons. The only character that brought an axe just dropped it or forgot it.
It basically feels like a reverse plot armor "Someone has to die because it's a zombie show, remember?".
It's not helped by all the cheap moments "Oh no if only they waited 2 more seconds or turned their head to the left".
The writing of characters is not great either. A character is either pure evil or pure good, no in between.
The main cast has some cool and funny characters, thought.
The plot for season 2 is not looking great either.
The Pros: Occasional good zombie gore and unexpected deaths
The Cons: Ridiculous characters who constantly make the most idiotic decisions, gag-worthy teen romance plots, TERRIBLE attempts to insert slapstick comedy into a show that should be focused on the horror elements, and inconsistent zombie powers/abilities.
I couldn't stand this idiocy already on the 5th series and I lasted a long time. Stupid heroes are a stupid plot. The whole plot can be put into a 30 minute video, from this it will only get better.