iZombie is a crime drama TV series with elements of horror, comedy, action and a seriously wacky plot. Just like The Walking Dead, it is loosely based on a comic book series but is nowhere near as serious or at all dystopian. It comes from the creator of Veronica Mars and has a crime-fighting element where the protagonist uses her skills to help the police.

Liv Moore is a driven and disciplined medical resident with a fiance and a perfectly planned future. One evening, a colleague invites her to a boat party. After some coaxing by Major, her fiance, she decides to drop by for a bit as she rarely indulges in things like that. Unfortunately, the party was organized by Max Rager: a villainous organization that ignored the safety issues of their products in favor of profit. Some drug dealers and some zombie attacks later, Liv wakes up the following morning in a body bag on the shore.

Because she is now unwillingly undead, she goes from medical resident to medical examiner at the city morgue. This has the added benefit of being near a convenient food source. She breaks off her engagement with her long-time partner Major and distances herself from her family and friends to protect them. Liv finds an unlikely ally in her boss Ravi who finds out that she is a zombie and resolves to find a cure.

The real hook for me was that, as a zombie, Liv has the ability to adopt the personality traits, knowledge and skills of people whose brains she has eaten. She also gets visions of the lives and deaths of those people. When Detective Clive Babineaux visits the morgue for info on a muder victim, Liv has just finished nibbling on that very victim's brains. She gets a vision and rattles of her insights to Clive who gets suspicious. She ends up posing as a psychic and helps him solve cases.

Soon, she finds out that she isn't the only zombie after all. One day, the drug dealer from the boat party pops into the morgue for a visit and Liv recognizes him as the one who turned her. Blaine becomes her adversary and causes a lot of grief. Instead of dealing drugs, he starts turning people into zombies and dealing brains. He also has no qualms with killing people to get them.
Too soon, Liv figures out that Blaine isn't her only problem as the name Max Rager starts popping up in murder investigations. The zombie infestation will leave no one untouched as Liv's loved ones seem to get sucked into the whole mess. The situation is becoming increasingly serious and Liv's carefully maintained world gets closer to, once again, being turned on its axis.

After seeing zombie shows like The Walking Dead, In the Flesh and even Resurrection, iZombie was not what I expected. It still has something I would name a comic book feel and the show makes use of that to dismantle problems that would've otherwise brought it to a dead halt. I was impressed that the story still managed to flow in a credible and entertaining way. I especially liked the way the characters developed and that none of them were neglected. I would recommend this show to anyone who likes zombies and is looking for a lighter story about them.