Whassup friends? I’m super excited to be back sharing iZombie recaps with Mandy C. Let’s talk brains and bros!
Grey Matters
Poor Major is feeling serious guilt over the zombie dude he killed and disposed of last week, especially since the guy’s kids are on TV pleading for information about their dad’s whereabouts. Liv drags new roomie Gilda to a frat party, so she can find clues about the murder of the week. And Ravi drags Major to a club to assist him in obtaining Utopium, so that he can take it and record his observations. FOR SCIENCE. Later, Ravi’s dealer, and three others turn up tortured and dead.
Brain Melt
- Blaine turned his own father into a zombie?! He really IS evil.
- Oh, NOOOO, Major! Hugs, not drugs!
The Brain
Chad Wolcoff, the hard partying pledge captain of his fraternity is stabbed with an ice pick at a costume kegger. But the killer could be nearly anyone, because Chad was the kind of insensitive dick who thought getting drunk, and posing as an anti-drunk driving advocate to speak to an auditorium of high schoolers was a hilarious prank. Eating his brain gives Liv useful skills, like belching, ‘bro’ing, pranking, and coaxing the flow from a tapped keg.
The Real Monster
Randy, the furry-dating kid from Spokane, lost his parents to a drunk driver. He meant to kill the other Chad Wolcoff on campus, who is now an anti-drunk driving speaker and had been a pranking victim, thanks to sharing a name with the frat dude. Poor Randy learned an important lesson about not relying on Googling name alone, to locate the target of your revenge murder.
Winners and Chewsers
Winner: Blaine. I’ll be honest, I’m not quite following Blaine’s quest to take over the Seattle drug trade trade as closely as I could (villain business is so tedious). But he seems to be maneuvering the pieces in his game exactly where he wants them, proving you don’t have to be undead to be a badass.
Loser: Major. Poor Major is still having the worst year ever. The guilt spiral seems to be driving him to reckless new lows, including into the arms of Utopium. Liv rescues him from the bathroom floor of the club and stays with him through the night, but by the end of the episode, he’s back at it again. I can’t handle my boo so sad.
Words With a Bite
“And FYI, if you find the cure for zombieism on this floor, I may opt to keep eating brains.” -Liv
“Well, I hope you like Jagerbombs, and homo-erotic subtext.” - Ravi
“Like, who do you know who totally sucks?” -Liv
“So, I know you’re a student of men’s lifestyle magazines, but your glitter… Is this a new trend I should know about?” -Major
“So you know, I’m referring to your beard as Princess Sparkles from now on.” -Major
“I’ve been thinking, and what this morgue needs is a foosball table.” -Liv
“I was wrong about the bathroom being the place to score drugs. There’s definitely some transactions going on in there, but not the kind we’re looking for.” -Major
Picking Your Brain
- Is Major being an unnecessary hardass to Liv, considering she gave him the only remaining cure? And how much worse can his downward spiral get??
- It’s not exactly shocking that Blaine has a truckload of daddy issues, but what was the purpose of turning his father zombie? Just to blackmail him?
- Ravi dancing on the club stage: everything? Or EVERYTHING?
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