Zomboat

[brokenmnemonic]

I discovered completely by accident that a new series called Zomboat started airing on ITV last week. The episodes are half an hour long, and follow four characters trying to escape from Birmingham during a zombie outbreak. It's definitely not the Walking Dead, and it made me laugh more than once. It's both very aware of what it is - and the topic of zombie films and their tropes comes up more than once - while at the same time displaying the incongruity of actually finding yourself in the middle of a zombie outbreak in modern Britain. If you fancy a watch, the first episode is up on Youtube:

"Episode 1 | Zomboat!" (Watch on YouTube)

Why is it called Zomboat? Well, haven't you always wondered if you could escape a zombie outbreak on a canal barge?

Comments

[colls]

Your description makes me think of Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland, both of which I enjoyed for the sheer absurdity of it all.

[brokenmnemonic]

There's definitely a Shaun of the Dead vibe from it, in a good way. Not as much of a Zombieland vibe, though - I think Zomboat has more enthusiastically embraced the range of reactions the average person would have to being in the middle of a zombie epidemic. And the characters are all charmingly average ;)