When iZombie’s fourth season began, it felt like a wide open world of story possibilities for what, up to that point, had been a show with a fairly buttoned up structure. It was essentially a full reboot of the universe, and suddenly building the world of the show beyond the immediate characters and their storylines…

You can tell when iZombie starts to pull a season together because the episodes are so full of plot you barely have time to take a breath. After really struggling to strike a consistent balance between character and plot in the back half of the season, this penultimate episode finally settles in and sets things up for…

In terms of moving this season’s stories forward, “Insane In The Germ Brain” is one of the more successful episodes in this second half of this iZombie season. So many different stories either come to a head or move significantly toward their inevitable end and the result is a completely stuffed hour of things that…

If last week’s iZombie was an example of the show being an interesting mess, in contrast this week it’s mostly just a mess. There are a lot of disparate stories and tones, and none of them manage to coalesce into anything resembling a cohesive episode.

Occasionally, iZombie has an episode that is so overwhelmingly packed with plot that it essentially throws out all of the show’s rules on episode structure simply so they can fit it all in. “Mac-Liv-Moore” is exactly that kind of episode; so many things happened throughout the hour that it is less an episode of…

A lot happens in “Chivalry Is Dead,” but iZombie saves the biggest surprise for the very end: Liv tries to turn a sick girl into a zombie, and it doesn’t work. This seems to imply that some people might be immune to the zombie virus, which is a potentially a huge development. What this means for Liv and her smuggling…

After a string of strong episodes, this is the first time in season four iZombie feels like it falls a bit flat. Part of this is due to the brain of the week—which is uninspired at best—but the rest lies solely in the hands of the weird place the show finds itself in regards to Fillmore Graves. Add in awkward…

What a difference a murder makes—or, in the case of this episode of iZombie, the lack of one. For the first time this season, there was no murder case for Liv and Clive to solve and the result was an episode with room to breathe and, most importantly, explore Liv’s new quest to become the new Renegade. This isn’t…

iZombie might be packaged like a zany comedy, but episodes like this one prove that it is also sneakily one of the darkest shows on television. On its face, “Goon Struck” is teeming with funny, silly hockey jokes and overwrought Canadian stereotypes, but all of that serves merely as a palate cleanser to wash down some…

The most interesting part of the “Brainless In Seattle” two-parter might be the fact that it’s a two-parter at all. It’s a break from the show’s typical form, which prioritizes one case a week with its serialized story elements woven into that case. Typically iZombie only breaks that format at the end of its seasons,…

Sometimes an episode of television hits exactly that sweet spot of everything you love about a show. It doesn’t even need to be a rigidly formal “best” episode or even one that best exemplifies the ethos of the show; it just needs to hit you right where you live and entertain the hell out of you in the process.…

If last week’s iZombie premiere was focused setting the stage of what life is like in New Seattle, this second episode is all about reinforcing how this new reality will work within the framework of the show’s structure. Despite all that has changed around it, it looks like the show’s main framework is staying very…

What would a zombie apocalypse look like? From its onset, iZombie differentiated itself from the many zombie stories who use the idea of an apocalypse as a jumping-off point by keeping its own story tightly focused on one zombie’s story in what was, at the time, a small zombie outbreak. The end of season three brought…

Because The A.V. Club knows that TV shows keep going even if we’re not writing at length about them, we’re experimenting with discussion posts. For certain shows, one of our TV writers will publish some brief thoughts about the latest episode, and open the comments for readers to share theirs.

Because The A.V. Club knows that TV shows keep going even if we’re not writing at length about them, we’re experimenting with discussion posts. For certain shows, one of our TV writers will publish some brief thoughts about the latest episode, and open the comments for readers to share theirs.

Because The A.V. Club knows that TV shows keep going even if we’re not writing at length about them, we’re experimenting with discussion posts. For certain shows, one of our TV writers will publish some brief thoughts about the latest episode, and open the comments for readers to share theirs.

Because The A.V. Club knows that TV shows keep going even if we’re not writing at length about them, we’re experimenting with discussion posts. For certain shows, one of our TV writers will publish some brief thoughts about the latest episode, and open the comments for readers to share theirs.

Because The A.V. Club knows that TV shows keep going even if we’re not writing at length about them, we’re experimenting with discussion posts. For certain shows, one of our TV writers will publish some brief thoughts about the latest episode, and open the comments for readers to share theirs.

Because The A.V. Club knows that TV shows keep going even if we’re not writing at length about them, we’re experimenting with discussion posts. For certain shows, one of our TV writers will publish some brief thoughts about the latest episode, and open the comments for readers to share theirs.

Because The A.V. Club knows that TV shows keep going even if we’re not writing at length about them, we’re experimenting with discussion posts. For certain shows, one of our TV writers will publish some brief thoughts about the latest episode, and open the comments for readers to share theirs.