iZombie

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Television series
German title iZombie
Original title iZombie
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 2015-2019
Production
company		 Spondoolie Productions,
Vertigo ( DC Entertainment ),
Warner Bros. Television
Episodes 71 in 5 seasons ( list )
genre Dramedy , crime , horror
Theme music Stop, I'm Already Dead - Deadboy & the Elephantmen
idea Rob Thomas ,
Diane Ruggiero-Wright
music Josh Kramon
First broadcast March 17, 2015 (USA) on The CW
German-language
first broadcast		 August 13, 2015 on sixx
occupation
synchronization

iZombie is an American dramedy series developed by Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggiero-Wright for The CW . The television series revolves around Liv Moore (played by Rose McIver ), who as a zombie, after consuming brains, adopts the memories and personality traits of the deceased and uses this as a coroner to help solve murder cases. iZombie is a free adaptation of the comic series of the same name.

The television series premiered on March 17, 2015. The fifth and final season started in the US in May 2019. On August 1, 2019, the last episode was released.

action

Olivia Moore (called Liv), a young doctoral student, is engaged to the social worker major and leads an orderly life until she participates in a boat party that turns into a boat massacre. The next day she wakes up as a zombie and goes through various changes. Her skin turns pale, her hair pale, and she becomes hungry for human brains. If she does not satisfy this hunger or gets into exceptional situations, she gains extreme strength and loses control of her body. Afraid of hurting Major, she breaks her engagement and moves into a shared apartment with her best friend Peyton. In order to be able to feed on brains, she takes a job in forensic medicine. Your boss, Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti, with whom she is on good terms, finds out her secret and tries to develop a cure. By eating the brains, Liv temporarily gains abilities and behaviors of the dead and visions that reveal parts of their lives. She uses this knowledge together with Clive Babineaux, a homicide detective, to fight crime. He thinks she is a medium.

At first Liv assumes she is the only zombie, but over time it turns out that she is not alone. The police lieutenant, Suzuki, is secretly a zombie. Lowell, a musician Liv met during an investigation, is also a zombie. Liv meets him soon afterwards. Another zombie is Blaine, who has a thriving business - an organization that kills homeless youth and sells their brains to other zombies. When Liv finds out that Blaine kills for brains, she and Lowell try to kill Blaine. However, this fails and Lowell dies trying. Some of the homeless youths were cared for by Major as a social worker, who is investigating their disappearance. Peyton starts dating Ravi until she learns Liv is a zombie. Then Peyton goes into hiding. During various investigations, Liv finds out that the energy drink company Max Rager is involved in the boat massacre and possibly in the first outbreak of the zombie virus. A drug in the energy drink caused several violent riots. The company secretly wants to develop the zombie gene into an extreme energy drink without side effects.

Meanwhile, Ravi is making progress in developing the cure for zombies. However, he can only make two doses of the remedy. As Major gets closer to the truth, he begins to doubt his sanity and is admitted to a mental hospital. However, there he finds out the truth about zombies. He fires himself, finds evidence that zombies exist, reports it to Liv and tries to fight zombies. He goes to the headquarters of Blaine's organization, a gourmet shop, and shoots all the zombies present. He is fatally injured by Blaine and learns while dying that Liv is also a zombie. When this arrives, she injures Blaine and gives him one of the cans to heal, so that Blaine has to flee injured. Then she scratches Major and turns him into a zombie, shortly afterwards she gives him the last dose of the cure. When Lieutenant Suzuki arrives at the abandoned crime scene, he leaves a hint on Blaine and blows himself up with the gourmet shop. Liv's brother is seriously injured in this explosion. He now urgently needs a blood donation, Liv has the same blood type, but refuses to donate blood.

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Cast and dubbing

The German dubbing is produced under the dialogue direction by Gabrielle Pietermann (season 1) and Kathrin Neusser (since season 2) by the dubbing company Arena Synchron in Berlin .

Main cast

role actor image Main role
(episodes) 		Supporting role
(episodes) 		Voice actor
Olivia "Liv" Moore Rose McIver Rose McIver 1.01-5.13 Lina Rabea Mohr
Clive Babineaux Malcolm Goodwin Malcolm Goodwin 1.01-5.13 Tobias Schmidt
Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti Rahul Kohli Rahul Kohli 1.01-5.13 Manuel Straube
Major Lilywhite Robert Buckley Robert Buckley 1.01-5.13 Marcel Collé
Blaine DeBeers David Anders Robert Buckley 1.01-5.13 Norman Matt
Peyton Charles Aly Michalka Aly Michalka 3.01-5.13 1.01-1.03, 1.05, 1.08, 1.11, 2.03-2.07, 2.11-2.12, 2.16-2.19 Anne Düe

Supporting cast

role actor Supporting role
(episodes) 		Voice actor
Lieutenant Suzuki Hiro Kanagawa 1.01, 1.05, 1.07, 1.08, 1.10, 1.11, 1.13 Tobias Lelle
Evan Moore Nick Purcha 1.01, 1.04, 1.07, 1.12, 1.13, 2.01 Amadeus Strobl
Eva Moore Molly Hagan 1.01, 1.06, 1.07, 1.13, 2.01 Sabine Arnhold
Julien Dupont Aleks Paunovic 1.04, 1.05, 1.07, 1.09-1.13 Tilo Schmitz
Lowell Tracy Bradley James 1.05–1.09 Nico Sablik
Vaughn you Clark Steven Weber 1.10, 1.13, 2.01-2.19 Marcus Off
Donald "Don E." Eberhard Bryce Hodgson 1.10-5.13
Rita / Gilda Leanne Lapp 1.13-2.05, 2.08, 2.10, 2.12, 2.14-2.17, 2.19 Gabrielle Pietermann
Chief Andre Tricoteux 2.01-2.18
Angus McDonough Robert Knepper 2.02, 2.06, 2.13, 3.01, 3.08, 4.01-4.13 Bernd Vollbrecht
Floyd Baracus Kurt Evans 2.02-2.19
Dale Bozzio Jessica Harmon 2.04-5.13 Marie-Isabel Walke
Stacey "Mr." Boss Eddie Jemison 2.06-5.13 Santiago Ziesmer
Drake Holloway Greg Finley 2.09-2.19
Vivian Stoll Andrea Savage 2.19-3.08

production

Rob Thomas Diane Ruggiero-Wright
Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggiero-Wright developed the series

iZombie is a free adaptation of the comic series of the same name by Chris Roberson and Michael Allred, which was published by DC Comics under their imprint Vertigo from 2010 to 2012. The CW commissioned a screenplay for the series from Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggiero-Wright in November 2013 . The pilot episode was ordered in January 2014 .

Actors David Anders and Malcolm Goodwin were the first to be hired for leading roles. Robert Buckley was hired in mid-March 2014 . A few days later, the central role of Liv was filled with Rose McIver . In May 2014, the station ordered a first season of the series, consisting of 13 episodes. In August 2014, the role of Peyton Charles, initially played by Alexandra Krosney , was re-cast with Aly Michalka .

In May 2015, The CW extended the series by a second season, which should again consist of 13 episodes. In October 2015, five more scripts for the second season were ordered. In November 2015, the number of episodes in the second season was increased to 19 episodes.

Charisma

United States

The first season of the series was shown from March 17 to June 9, 2015 on the television network The CW. It started with good ratings, the series gained a market share of 0.9 percent in the young target group, a total of 2.3 million viewers saw the pilot episode , a good result for the station The CW. In the further course of the season, the season showed steady audience ratings. Among the new series of the station, iZombie was the most successful series after The Flash .

In May 2015, The CW announced a second season of the series, which premiered on October 6, 2015. The second season finale aired on April 12, 2016. The third season ran from April 4, 2017.

Germany

In April 2015, the ProSiebenSat.1 Media Group secured the broadcasting rights for the series. The first season was broadcast from August 13 to October 29, 2015 on sixx .

The second season was also broadcast on sixx from June 2, 2016. The series has also been on Netflix since August 2016 . The third season was broadcast on sixx from October 19, 2017; the fourth season also started broadcasting on sixx on September 20, 2018, and the fifth in February 2020.

reception

The first season, which was well received by the critics, received a 92 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes . The Washington Post described the series as a mix of zombie thriller, detective show and "single girl-in-the-city" comedy, and notes that the show's dry humor is "more fun than a barrel of monkey-brains."

Metacritic , which assigns whole-number ratings, determined a Metascore of 74 out of 100 points. IGN magazine gave the pilot an 8.4 / 10 rating and praised the creators' “casual attitude towards zombies” and Rose McIver's performance as Liv .

The second season continued to receive positive reviews. Rotten Tomatoes found a 100 percent approval rating from the 14 recognized critics. The page sums it up: "iZombie is smoothly switching for its second season, alternating between comedy and dramatic moments as it cleverly mocks modern society along the way."

The third season was also rated 100 percent by Rotten Tomatoes . The website's consensus is, "More melancholy and thoughtful, iZombie's third season could be the best yet."

The fourth season was similarly well received. She received a 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes . The website's consensus reads, "Season four of iZombie boldly flips the series narrative board, injecting fresh blood into her lovable corpse, promising she won't go stiff anytime soon."

The fifth season of iZombie was rated 71 percent on Rotten Tomatoes .

Episode list

Web links

Individual evidence

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