what is going on to all my netflix and zombie loving fans out there and welcome back to my
channel movie files elliott back again with a brand new netflix series review and today we will
be discussing and dissecting and breaking down the new a zombie apocalypse coming of age drama by the
name of all of us are dead which premiered over the weekend your boy has survived all 12 episodes
and i'm here today to let you all know what i thought about those 12 episodes and if you should
watch it all in this breakdown review before we get into it make sure you're checking me out
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your cons favorite episodes favorite characters favorite moments what were moments that didn't
work for you all but more importantly what you think about the ending and do you want to see a
season two let's talk about it all in the comments below so the way i want to handle this review is
95 in this video will be a spoiler-free review pros cons what worked what didn't work do i
recommend you all watch it then the last i want to say three four minutes tops i'm gonna talk
about my thoughts in the ending and what it can mean for maybe a season two so i'm gonna leave
titles and and all that stuff in the description so you can kind of know when i'm gonna be talking
about those spoilers so with that being said let's talk about the first topic which is my
expectations going into this series listen when i saw the trailer about a month ago i was on board
zombies check teenage drama high school settings in in the zombie apocalypse check
and then korean cinema man trina busan is my favorite zombie film of all time and i just love
the korean narratives and the way they bring their stories to the forefront whether it be
tv shows like squig games or you know hell bound or like i mentioned training massage they are just
they knock out of the park when it comes to movie making and tv shows so i was on board
did it live up to my expectations did it stick to landing well let's talk about
the setting in the environment here without giving too much away for you all that do not know
this is a story that takes place in a high school which is ground zero for the zombie apocalypse
outbreak and we're watching these students trying to navigate their way out of this high school to
survive and in that comes my first topic which i loved about this show i love when zombie stories
are kind of self-contained in a sense which we're in one location i mentioned training beside we're
on a train for most of the film and this show takes place in a high school and what i loved
about the setting of the high school is it's the different levels that our students try to go to
which brings so many different obstacles and i'm saying this in the best way possible this
felt like a video game to me again in a good way because when i say that is i think about when i
was a gamer the different levels the different you know threat level bosses you have to go through
and the obstacles that our characters have to go through and just seeing them kind of last of
us style grabbing anything and everything they can to either kill a zombie defend themselves
against a zombie you know surround themselves to protect themselves from the zombies getting them
it was just so many kind of like things that just reminded me of all the games i used to play again
i think of resident evil i think of last of us that just brought a lot of that stuff to light
i love the way that the different areas of the high school brought different obstacles that
our characters had to overcome it just brought so much tension it was so entertaining it was so much
fun seeing those different elements that the show added within this high school settings the stakes
were there the decisions were so tough that these kids had to go through and also the decisions that
were outside the school were very tough too but again that high school kind of setting really
brought a lot of interesting scary thrilling elements to this show which brings me into
i mention the trained busan comparison which just has kind of trained beside meets the raid type of
vibes but going back to why i love training busan i love zombies i love the blood the guts the gore
the thrilling elements but i also love good storytelling but also caring for the characters
and this show has characters that i absolutely adored the all the actors brought their a game but
there were some staying down so i'm going to list off some of those characters and give you a little
bit of description starting off with some of my favorites with shang san they are two friends that
have known each other since kindergarten and a lot of people think that they're a thing but they're
really not a romantic couple but as the show goes on they might have a little bit more feelings than
they initially thought so i thought individually number one those characters were fantastic
their individual arcs their family members their friends the the tragedies the wins the survival
taxes they go through were fantastic but them as a pair uh as friendships was just so fantastic to
see and they just brought a lot of good stuff to the show but also there was another pair of
a kind of will they won't they couple that i really enjoyed and those characters go by
the name of everyone's favorite hero suhya and nan rod now sue haya is a once bully turn good
guy he's a good fighter he's a good guy he's the hero you want to be in real life he was fantastic
but then his friendship maybe later relationship with the class president who's kind of very closed
off she has her ways about her she's all about her grades but she's trying to like integrate
herself within his group she was fantastic her arc was very intriguing very integral to the plot and
i won't get into the reasons why but those two actors those two characters were fantastic but
i think a fan favorite she's the archer of the group and her name is harina harry is the older
sister of one of our main characters or one of our main students and she's an archer and she is
legion she is badass with the archery with the arrows and i really enjoyed that character so
again all the characters fantastic but those were some of my standouts but i would be remiss
to not mention this one character now if you've seen enough zombie movies like i have or tv shows
you know that there is that one or two characters that are just so annoying that are evil and
despicable and all they care about themselves and this show has that character his name is
nam now guinam is the main bully the main foil the main villain per se of this show and i won't get
into details but let me just tell you all you will absolutely hate the character it's the character
that you like how the hell have they made it this far and it's just he has a lot of drama suspense
you hate the character but the actor did a fantastic job and i'm telling you all when you see
the different arc in the storyline they give that character it was it was pretty entertaining but
again that that character i hated him to the core but again going back to my love for the characters
it takes the show maybe about two to three episodes to really kind of find its footing
but once it does i care for the characters i were rooting for the characters the performances were
absolutely fantastic and it's the bond you're seeing these teenagers who have their parents
they don't know if their parents are alive they don't know if the world's over
is seeing them bond and become friends that i really adored and again the development of those
characters were absolutely fantastic but the thing that really kind of surprised me about this show
when it comes to zombie i've seen my fair share of zombie movies and shows
there's the tropes you know the bad decisions that we'll talk a little bit about later but
this show takes it to the next level it adds something new and unique to the genre whether it
be tackling themes such as the politics involved in this outbreak in the decision makings that have
to be made by the higher ups it's the social media social commentary that the show has it in regards
like fake news and how news gets out there and kind of disrupts the main thing that's going on
and then also going back to the main setting it is in high school so we are seeing this beautiful
coming of age story of these kids becoming their own adults becoming their own people
and it's seeing them having the perspective of their parents having a perspective of the
government so it tackles things of that nature you know going back to the school settings there are
bullies in school and we get the bullying element in this film in the show the pressures of being a
good person having good grades trying to go to college that's added in the show and of course
there's dating so it has everything that i just did not expect to get from the show from again
the thrills the chills the drama there's comedy there's romance there's coming of age the show
has a lot more than meets the eye and i was very pleasantly surprised by all the themes and stuff
that the show handled but i can't leave without mentioning the zombies are pretty badass this show
does not have sex or nudity but it is very violent it has you know some some language but going back
to the gore is fantastic the body contortion the sound effects the blood the guts were
all there and the the take on the zombies the scientific element of the zombies without giving
so much away was very fascinating the evolving nature of the zombies i'll just say that was
very fascinating and again it's very unique it's very different from other zombie things
you have seen before and i really applaud the different take and appreciate the take
that they had on their zombies and something i also want to mention without spoiling anything
a lot of zombie movies and shows you don't see how it all started you don't get that with this
show they show you how it started when you see how the zombie apocalypse started it's very
very interesting i'll just leave it at that but another thing i want to talk about before
going to my criticisms here bring the tissue box uh this show is very emotional there are
as the suicide squad promotion says don't get too attached do not get to attach these characters you
gotta love them like i did but there is a high body count in this show and there are a lot of
major deaths that i did not personally see coming and i was in a wreck but in the show like every
episode had me just like oh my goodness getting emotional that's because again i cared so much
for these characters again don't get too attached these characters and again it's it's it's a really
good thrill ride but there are some criticisms that i do have that i want to mention here
some nitpicks this is a zombie show and there are tropes that the show follows and you know the
inevitable bad decisions and there's the moments where you're like why didn't you go that way
why aren't you killing that character why are you doing this why are you doing that there are those
moments in the show there it doesn't overwhelm the show but there are moments where i'm like
that was a very stupid decision for our main characters and it kind of went against the grain
of what the characters and what they established in this world so it doesn't like i said it doesn't
negatively impact my thoughts on the show but there are those moments i'm like come on you could
have did a little bit better job in the decision making there but also another little nitpick there
are some drama elements like i mentioned there's a little bit of a love story and some coming of
age moments and most of the the love plots work but sometimes they got a little bit melodramatic
for my taste and also kind of in the same vein of melodramatic there are some like very interesting
creative choices from the director in regards to having like these slow motion moments that kind of
took me out of the scene because it was like very like i don't need slow motion or musical cues to
get me like invested in the emotion i'm seeing on screen but sometimes they would add those
cues i'm like that wasn't really necessary but again those are little like nitpicks for me the
meat and potatoes to my criticism what the show is there are a lot of plots you know we are following
our main crew in the high school and there's even you know another group of people within
the high school we're following what's going on outside the high school the adults the military
you know parents trying to get to their kids a lot of slot a lot of plots going on
most of the plots work again the high school stuff is fantastic that's the best element on the show
but some of the outside stuff in particularly for example without getting into the details felt a
little bit unnecessary some of the side plots the the you know the c plot the d's plot didn't
really give me a satisfied conclusion i think of the military aspect which was needed because
it explained the outbreak but i felt like some of the military stuff the detective that we followed
their plots kind of felt lost and kind of got lost into the the narrative and didn't like i said for
my taste didn't have like a satisfied conclusion and also i mentioned the high school being the
best part there is a element of bullying in the show and there are two characters that are bullied
their plot was kind of underwhelming without getting to their details and also the girl in
the pink shirt i wanted her she did something she does something very despicable in this show
and i was kind of leaving at that but her plot kind of felt a little bit short so there were
so many plots that i really enjoyed but some of these subplots felt a little bit underwhelming
for my personal taste which brings me into my last point i love the world building i love the
characters i love what the show had to say it's 12 hours this show's long it took me about two
and a half days to finish it i'm filming this on a sunday and it's coming out on a monday but it took
me about two and a half days to finish and again i love the world i thought it was great pacing
i don't personally think it needed 12 episodes to tell its narrative i thought there were plots
there weren't like wasted plots in the show but i feel like there were certain plastic
could have been combined into one narrative to tell one episode i personally think this could
have been told in 10 episodes and that's just my personal take so i will say for me it felt
a little bit too long on the tooth and i don't think it needed 12 episodes to tell its narrative
so that's kind of my my my last criticism that i have about the show so before i give you my
overall thoughts before we get into my thoughts on the ending make sure if you haven't already to
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overall at the end of the day for me this zombie apocalypse coming of age drama is a must-see watch
it's tense it's emotional it's bloody it throws in some comedy some drama and i recommend you
all give this a watch and based on how things ended they leave the door open for a season
two so those are my non-spoiler thoughts let me get into my spoiler topic here in regards to the
ending and again if you're at this point in the video i've assumed you've seen it and let's get
into the ending so we see our crew at this point we have andrew who leaves the remaining survivors
it's four months have passed since the outbreak they pretty much have a lock on things now she
sees you know she goes over the fence she sees that there's a fire burning at the high school
and you all remember their whole promise was let's do this sitting around the fire as a friend
let's do this again so she gathers everyone up they make their way to the high school the fire is
burning and comes our character alright the school president she's looking healthier i don't know
what she's been eating has it been other zombies or has she found has she mutated to be able to
live on regular food but she looks healthier than when we last saw her she's smiling and
obviously we see our crew wants her to come back with them but she declines she says i have
a greater purpose i have people i'm looking out for there are other people that are just like me
she zips up her coat she does her best batman imitation and jumps off the roof but before she
jumps off the roof she says wait they're here let me bring them to you all so who is she referring
to are some of our characters that have died have they survived i'm thinking of my boy who
took down the main bully and and blew up in the when the the whole fire took place is he alive is
is some of our characters that have died along the way have they mutated have they evolved to a new
evolution of the zombie who was she referring to i think there will be some survivors that we thought
were dead and particularly i'm talking about yongsan i don't think he's dead i think that he
survived that explosion i think the bully's dead but i think when you all see when they fell down
that uh that in the construction site i think he blocked himself and was able to
save himself even though she says she wasn't able to smell him i think he's still alive and
i think there's going to be other characters that we thought were no longer on the table
they have somehow kind of mutated to this new version of the zombies so i like the ending and
what i would like to see for season two is let's continue that conversation let's continue to see
will the uninfected the un you know um zombie people where they want to coexist
with this hybrid version these hybrid zombie humans there she's not a child she's not adult
she's not a monster she's not you know she is who she is i wonder if season two is going to tackle
co-existing with one another and also was it me or was the class president was was i was under
the impression that her mom this whole season was the political woman is were they alluding to
that because they never confirmed that she had a daughter but i thought that they were mother
and daughter who knows that might be a season two the mother tries to get these laws in place where
they can coexist with one another and also i hope the detective comes back and he gets involved but
that's kind of what i hope to see in a season two and what they can also do is when she mentions
there's other people like her we can have another not 12 episodes but maybe 10 episodes the first
two episodes focus on the same zombie outbreak but from a different perspective from the other
students that she might have found on her way and then you know first two episodes is showing their
perspective and how they survive how they mutate it in the rest of season again showing them trying
to coexist with the rest of the world so i'm here for season two i would love to see a season two
more of the high school settings the coming of days the story lines the characters we've come to
love i want to see more of it but hey that's just my thoughts in the ending that's what i hope to
see in season two but again if you stuck around at this point in the video let me know your thoughts
on the ending and what you would want to see in an inevitable season too because this show is killing
it right now internationally also domestically it's trending and i hope we get more of this show
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