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Z Nation: Full Metal Zombie (1×04)
Synopsis: They’re headed for a helicopter, but which of them can actually pilot it? Your guess is as good as mine!
Rating: ★★★★☆
I think I can sum up every episode of Z Nation by saying so much and not enough happens. There’s a Romero shout-out that you have to watch and be in awe of at the very beginning. We get a little hint at 10K’s past, when he talks about his father’s passing – he killed it, not his dad, but it.
This week, the caravan – though I guess it’s not so much a caravan anymore when they’ve just got one vehicle left – gets car-jacked by some people who have been waiting long enough for others to come by that they’ve hatched an elaborate chained-up-zombies trap. But before we can lament their new jalopy, they find the same people who took their truck in a stand-off against a poor family with little kids. Garnett and the group swoop in to save the family from the same fate. Just kidding, that family with those little kids mow down the other group in a hail of bullets and take the truck for themselves.
And before you can even recover from that hilarious twist, we come across the family mysteriously having become zombie lunch and the truck is back with whom it belongs! They manage to get in touch with Citizen Z over a drive-through ordering camera and speaker. Z’s a little uncomfortably obsessed with Addy after speaking with her in Philly, but he’s a lonely little weirdo, so who is surprised? They want air transportation, despite none of them looking qualified to fly a helicopter, and Citizen Z points them towards McLean, Virginia.
While everyone else mounts a rescue attempt, Doc figures it’s a good time to try to hotbox the zombie. They take the lone soldier up in the elevator to confront the General and promptly throw him to the group of zombies that are waiting for the group on the top floor. Murphy has another panic attack in the confined space of the elevator and ends up running off – again. They take out as many of the zombies as they can before they run out of ammunition and the appearance of the Boss Zombie, which ends up being a giant zombie that can pick up and throw the guys around and takes more than a few blows to the head.
Having come right back to square one – but hey, they’re in Virginia now! – they’re loading up the truck when Doc stumbles towards them. At first, it looks like Warren is going to have to give him mercy, but when she misses him and he shouts, everyone realizes he’s still alive! I’m already so invested in the well being of these characters and there may have been a fist pump at this revelation…
What did you think? Did I miss any references? Are you completely sold on this show yet? If you’re not, just know that next week is the ZNADO – which, can only be explained by Warren, who said in the previews, “Well… At least it’s not sharks…”
Doc is the only thing that makes this show watchable. Also did you notice the windshield wipers on the truck randomly did one swoop as he gave up the oxycontins???
Aww, Doc’s not the ONLY thing! Aren’t you waiting for the dramatic, “And that’s why I REALLY. HATE. SHARKS.” monologue translated to the zombie apocalypse?
Btw… is McCANDLES Dr Satan from 1000 Corpses??
His IMDB tells me he was Otis but I’ve never seen the movie, just remember it being mentioned in an article that he was in that movie.