He's continually challenged and pushed to back down only to come back swinging even harder every time. How is that dead weight?

Best and biggest surprise of the year. Last year was True Detective and Fargo, the year before that was Hannibal, and this year it's iZombie.

You say that as if Blaine would have been compliant in any of that. Liv wasn't trusting him to keep the zombie menace in check (indeed she didn't even know if the cure would kill him or not) but she did believe that he had information that made it difficult to just assassinate him. A (potential) cure is the best…

Vaccines aren't anything other than preparation for your immune system. You can't get chicken pox again after getting it once whether that was from contagion or vaccine.

Liv still took a risk that he'd die not knowing if the cure was fatal or not. Despite that, Blaine made a competent case to keep him alive — not for effort but for information.

I feel like it's demeaning to Major's wit to call it mere sarcasm; but I also strongly dislike sarcasm.

I really loved how Major was basically the only witty character on the show. One of the most salient criticisms of Joss Whedon's work (especially his earlier work) is how everyone is equally witty. Ravi certainly has his moments but Major just kills it almost every time he opens his mouth.

I gotta give a shout out to his wonderfully subtle reaction to the newspaper. Great work. Really though playing Johnny Torrence is all the experience one would need to play a great villain.

It was the redhead from the diner scene.

On the contrary; the drug would either cure him or kill him and despite the fact that events suggested she should keep him alive the risk was much easier to take with Blaine, especially since this method would both keep him alive and unable to "procreate."

Zombification was created by a combination of "tainted utopium" and Max Rager. The wrinkle here is that nobody has any idea what the correct proportions are and so Ravi did a bunch of tests to see what kind of formula resulted in a zombie which he could then develop a cure for. Once he developed something that…

Yeah the impression I always had was that they got creative and found ways to fool around without touching each other.

In addition I also felt that the scene where they talk after to be a brilliant inversion/subversion of the typical boy/girl story like this. Inverted, where the hero is the male and has to save the girl there's something of an innate belief that "just being with me is enough" to paraphrase Liv. The inversion lays…

The "case of the week" was resolving the events of the previous episode. It wasn't procedural.

Yeah I feel I should clarify that her beauty for me is not just her physical attributes but also her talent.

Rose McIver is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen.

But "the right thing to do" is often born out of selfish desires. Liv didn't even consider what Major wanted and from her perspective she obviously did what she felt was right but it was completely and wholly her own reasoning and decisions that led her there.

Oh I will say that whomever choreographs their fight sequences clearly doesn't understand the power a real trained army would wield vs. untrained nobles in masks. Shields & spears vs. daggers? The daggers should really just not win unless you're under a damn train or something (Legend of the Drunken Master…

Cheer for Shireen maybe, considering the adversity she's faced — but I think Stannis' popularity is as cooked as his daughter.

How do you define shit writing? As far as I can tell the most legitimate complaint about the show is insufficient staging but a weakness in writing doesn't make the entire thing shit.