- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Jan 28, 2022
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At a certain point, the proceedings do fall prey to a bit of exhausting repetition, vacillating as they do between teen squabbles and battles against swarms of voracious reanimated corpses who care only about sinking their teeth into necks, arms, and legs. Then again, All of Us Are Dead makes a compelling, and often thrilling, case that a viral apocalypse would ultimately become more than a bit monotonous—something that everyone in the real world can likely relate to right now.
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“All of Us Are Dead” is nothing if not self-aware. It’s also quite well executed, even when it feels more like an exercise than an organic creation.
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Beyond the visceral thrill of watching zombies chow down on their unfortunate victims, All Of Us Are Dead puts social hierarchies and human beings’ mechanisms for survival under a microscope.
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There are faint glimmers of a leaner, more confident show that peek through. ... For a show with nearly a 12-hour running time, though, there aren’t nearly enough to break a familiar story’s repetitive cycle.
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The school plotlines really work, in large part thanks to continued ingenuity with the props and sets and the charismatic young cast, with Yoon Chan-young and Cho Yi-Hyun as notable standouts. The show’s weakness, then, lies beyond the labyrinthine school itself as it tries to view the outbreak from the outside in. Watching yet another military take on zombies, no matter how bone-crunchingly sickening the ones in “All of Us Are Dead” are, just isn’t that interesting after seeing so many other TV shows and movies do the same.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 22 out of 35
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Mixed: 3 out of 35
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Negative: 10 out of 35
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Jan 30, 2022Yet another annoying TV-Show in which characters are annoyingly stupid. Again and Again and again.
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Jan 30, 2022
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Feb 7, 2022