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Z Nation

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Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews

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Generally favorable reviews based on 16 Ratings

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Z Nation

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Z Nation

Series Details & Credits

SyFy | Release Date: September 12, 2014

Summary: Set three years after a zombie virus nearly kills everyone, a team that includes leader Hammond (Harold Perrineau), second-in-command Garnett (Tom Everett Scott), and a computer hacker who goes by the name Citizen Z (DJ Qualls), seek to move a survivor of the virus from New York to the only functioning lab in California to produce an antidote.

Creator: Karl Schaefer

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Suspense, Science Fiction

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S5:E13. The End Of Everything
Air Date: December 28, 2018
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S5:E12. At All Cost
Air Date: December 21, 2018
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S5:E11. Hackerville
Air Date: December 14, 2018

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Metascore

48

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Critic Reviews

75

The A.V. Club

LaToya Ferguson

Sep 11, 2014

Season 1 Review: Z Nation is the show you watch if you want to see zombie guts splattered across the screen--and there’s nothing wrong with that. Read full review

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Rob Owen

Sep 9, 2014

Season 1 Review: Overall, Z Nation is pretty grounded and also manages to surprise viewers with the characters it chooses to sacrifice in its pilot episode. Read full review

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Uncle Barky Ed Bark

Sep 10, 2014

Season 1 Review: Although the acting can be a bit mechanical, Syfy’s Z Nation may have enough pop, intrigue and indispensable gore to serve as more than a mere placeholder for AMC’s The Walking Dead. Read full review

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Variety

Brian Lowry

Sep 10, 2014

Season 1 Review: While the series incorporates a specific quest element in the form of its possible “last, best hope to save humanity,” there’s just not enough to distinguish it from the other programs dealing more inventively with similar material, including “Dead” and this summer’s FX entry “The Strain.” Read full review

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Boston Herald

Mark A. Perigard

Sep 11, 2014

Season 1 Review: Gore-hounds will find a couple of visual shots fascinating, but there’s little here for anyone to justify the hour investment. Read full review

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Philadelphia Inquirer

David Hiltbrand

Sep 11, 2014

Season 1 Review: If you'll take zombies any way you can get 'em, Z Nation will hold you over. More discriminating fans may want to wait until next month, when The Walking Dead rumbles back to life. Read full review

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San Francisco Chronicle

David Wiegand

Sep 10, 2014

Season 1 Review: Even for SyFy, this is Grade Z television. Read full review

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User Reviews

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neomoonsevin

Dec 13, 2022

Doc was funny as I love this zombie show just sucks it got cancelled before the 6th season could begin

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BubbaBaxter

Feb 15, 2021

A fun alternatve to the Walking Dead franchise. A great show made even better/funnier after a bowl of BC bud :-)

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Lord_Fall

Nov 16, 2020

Z Nation is where zombie apocalypse meets funny jokes, while a lone guy from the North Pole broadcasts pitiful jokes to no mans land. A series which is irreverent and unpretentious. Humour that bites hard.

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Jrtlaktalk

May 19, 2020

This isn't a good show. In fact, it is completely ridiculous and absurd but... it was an absurdly fun ride. Well, it was an absurdly fun ride, that is up until season 5, when it got itself cancelled.

How did this fun ride manage to get itself cancelled? Well, season 5 was when the genderThis isn't a good show. In fact, it is completely ridiculous and absurd but... it was an absurdly fun ride. Well, it was an absurdly fun ride, that is up until season 5, when it got itself cancelled.

How did this fun ride manage to get itself cancelled? Well, season 5 was when the gender politics of Hollywood turned it into female empowerment gibberish. They made all of the males weak, irritating and whiny henchmen while simultaneously replacing every significant role with a strong and brave female: the hero, the leader, the scientist, the villain, the computer expert and the moral support.

Well, actually, they replaced the male computer expert, which was a hacker the NSA specifically recruited, back in season 4 with a nomadic female eskimo. They kept the male in, but apparently the nomadic female eskimo was just way more intelligent... Despite this however, it was still a fun ride - marginally less, but the fun was still there.

But with season 5 - they went too far with their illogical empowerment - and got itself cancelled.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

48

Series Overview
Season 5

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- Season 5 Overview
  Air Date: October 5, 2018
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  S5:E13. The End Of Everything
  Air Date: December 28, 2018
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  S5:E12. At All Cost
  Air Date: December 21, 2018
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  S5:E11. Hackerville
  Air Date: December 14, 2018
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  S5:E10. State Of Mine
  Air Date: December 7, 2018
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  S5:E9. Water Keepers
  Air Date: November 30, 2018
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  S5:E8. Heartland
  Air Date: November 23, 2018
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  S5:E7. Doc's Stoned History
  Air Date: November 16, 2018
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  S5:E6. Limbo
  Air Date: November 9, 2018
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  S5:E5. Killing All The Books
  Air Date: November 2, 2018
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  S5:E4. Pacifica
  Air Date: October 26, 2018
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  S5:E3. Escape From Altura
  Air Date: October 19, 2018
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  S5:E2. A New Life
  Air Date: October 12, 2018
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  S5:E1. Welcome to the Newpocalypse
  Air Date: October 5, 2018
Season 4

tbd
- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: September 29, 2017
Season 3

tbd
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: September 16, 2016
Season 2

tbd
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: September 11, 2015
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: September 12, 2014