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Day of the Dead (2021)

Season 1


Day of the Dead (2021) Day of the Dead (2021) [Season 1, Episode 1] The Thing in the Hole
Shown 15 Oct 21

This starts in small-town USA in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. Then the story skips backwards to the day that the zom-pocalypse began.

The town's Mayor ( Miranda Frigon ) is a gun-toting Open Carry extremist who supports fracking and poisoning the local water supply in order to make herself and her friends richer. Her tweenage son and his friends are the main characters.

A fracking crew is drilling near the town when they uncover a secret underground chamber. It contains a human body, chained up. The crew's newest member, a young woman, reports this to the local police. Her boss is less than happy, because he wants to cover up anything controversial. Although a police detective turns up, the Mayor has the cops cancel the investigation.

Day of the Dead (2021) Day of the Dead (2021) [Season 1, Episode 2] Chum
Shown 22 Oct 21

The town's Mayor ( Miranda Frigon ) is canvassing in the old folks home. Someone accidentally gets killed, so she has to cover up the killing. What are the chances that the dead body will come back to life and start killing all the residents.

The survivors in the funeral home are besieged. Their escape plan involves using the hearse.

Day of the Dead (2021) Day of the Dead (2021) [Season 1, Episode 3] The Grey Mile
Shown 29 Oct 21

The town's Mayor ( Miranda Frigon ) is trapped in the old folks home with a hungry zombie on the loose. She reckons that if she can kill it herself, she will be even more electable. However, despite posing as a firearms expert she calls her magazine a clip, and does not feel the weight difference when her weapon is empty. Worse, she aims her shots at the centre of body mass instead of just putting one in the zombie's head.

The survivors from the funeral home take the hearse to the old folks home. The place is overrun, but the youngsters have a plan.

The whistleblower is targeted by the fracking boss. Meanwhile, his Corporate superior and her security goon go exploring in the mysterious cavern. The detective is in medical custody, and despite being bitten he has not yet turned.

Day of the Dead (2021) Day of the Dead (2021) [Season 1, Episode 4] Forest of the Damned
Shown 05 Nov 21

The tweenage keggers in the woods get to their party. They finally discover that they are in a zom-pocalypse.

The town's Mayor ( Miranda Frigon ) gets to the police station.

The survivors from the funeral home get to the wedding party.

The detective who escaped from medical custody is out to confront the evil scientist woman.

Day of the Dead (2021) Day of the Dead (2021) [Season 1, Episode 5] 'Til the Dead Do Us Part
Shown 12 Nov 21

The wedding party at the golf course is gatecrashed by some zombies. These zombies are the Native American people who were buried on the land centuries ago before the settlers' descendents turned it into a golf course. This explains why the bites are not communicative - they are curse zombies, formerly known as voodoo zombies.

Day of the Dead (2021) Day of the Dead (2021) [Season 1, Episode 6] The Lady Birders of Nepa
Shown 19 Nov 21

The survivors from the marriage party make their escape in the hearse. They run into a pair of Lady Birders of Nepa, who are running from a zombie.

The town's Mayor ( Miranda Frigon ) has set up a rescue station at the mall, like in Dawn of the Dead . Her political rival complains when she sets up a well-regulated militia by arming volunteers with AR-15s from the gun store. He thinks there may be a cure for zombie-itis, so he talks the militia into using nets rather than guns.

The evil scientist woman has lost her prime zombie, but now she has a fresh one in its place. She experiments to see what it can remember. Surprisingly, it might actually have some memories.

Day of the Dead (2021) Day of the Dead (2021) [Season 1, Episode 7] Their Evil Was Our Evil
Shown 26 Nov 21

The survivors in the shopping mall cremate their dead.

The Native American woman reaches safety at her grandmothers house. As well as some food, she gets some exposition. The original zombie imprisoned was Cooper, patient zero of a zombie-itis outbreak two hundred years ago.

The undead detective is smarter than the average zombie. He works out how to escape.

Day of the Dead (2021) Day of the Dead (2021) [Season 1, Episode 8] To Anyone Who Can Hear My Voice
Shown 03 Dec 21

The two teenage boys go for a drive together. The Mayor ( Miranda Frigon ) takes a bunch of main characters out to look for them.

The political rival who lost the mayoral election is left in charge of the shopping mall. He refuses to allow a couple of state troopers in, because breaching the perimeter will compromise security

Day of the Dead (2021) Day of the Dead (2021) [Season 1, Episode 9] Death Comes to Paymart
Shown 10 Dec 21

The security guards take the main characters to their base at the fracking site. While everything seems safe, the foreman insists on taking no chances. He wants the guards to gas the civilians, and they reluctantly agree. Luckily the Native American woman, who served in a support unit of the US military, can somehow outfight guards who were recruited from combat units.

Back at the Paymart, the birdwatcher woman threatens everyone she blames for her sister's death. Soon they start turning up dead. Is this because of the zombies, or is she killing them?

Day of the Dead (2021) Day of the Dead (2021) [Season 1, Episode 10] Choke on 'Em!
Shown 17 Dec 21

The main characters get back to the Paymart. The security team got there first, and the massive battle happened off-screen for budgetary reasons. Presumably it was like Season one of Game of Thrones , when the money had completely run out.

The main characters have a plan to destroy the zombies. They use a prisoner as bait to lure the monsters into a trap. Of course, this just makes the so-called good guys into murderers.

Meanwhile, the scientist lady takes her sample to Pittsburgh. Her daughter is in hospital there, and the scientist thinks that infecting her with zombie-itis is somehow a good idea.

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Day of the Dead (2021) Day of the Dead (2021) [Season 1 , Episode 1 ]
Shown th October 2022 [Wednesday]

Reviewed in our special supplement Day of the Dead (2021)