Major continues to
enjoy rising attention in Fillmore Graves as he gets more and more important
and even Chase who is 5 steps from breakdown cheers him on and joins in the gay
jokes. Because of course
His rising star means
he thinks he’ll be able to get in better with Russ and his brain selling racket
as he becomes closer to the fascist-in-chief.
Team Liv is also
moving forwards. Isobel is still onside for testing of a vaccine and Ravi is
working on that. Ravi even speaks to Isobel’s mother who supports her choice
and 16 year old Isobel is very mature and trusted because of this. Of course
Ravi also feels he has to look after her at the urging of her mother.
The testing doesn’t
actually get anywhere but they keep trying as we see them all having fun
together, with Levon and Liv getting more couply, watching their zombie high
DVDs (which previously were referenced
in season 2)
But Isobel isn’t
completely ignoring her mental illness. While she’s not dwelling on it every
moment she is still feeling all the things she’ll never have chance to
experience (especially with Liv and Levon as well as Peyton and Ravi being very
sexual). So Liv sets her up with one of the actors from that show, with Ravi
swooping around playing protector and parental figure. They’re definitely
building a family dynamic.
The whole zombie
smuggling ring is also really taking off growing and growing and growing and
why is no-one questioning this?! Why why why does absolutely no-one questioning
what this will do to the brain supply? Why why why is no-one here worrying
about how all these extra zombies are going to be fed? It’s ridiculous that we
see an apparently exponential growth of zombies isn’t considered questionable
or worrisome at all?
One of their coyotes,
Curtis, a 21 year old with a new baby and a wedding coming up, is caught by
Fillmoregraves and faces Chase and the French detective (does this guy actually
have a name?). He tries to distract them claiming he works for Brother Love
claiming that Angus wants a lot more zombies so all the starving zombies will
then see that humans are designed to be eaten.
Wow, someone actually
noticing that a lot of zombies equals starving zombies equals problems BUT
STILL NOT STOPPING THIS
Chase doesn’t exactly
believe this but it does buy them enough time for Liv to launch a rescue - by
planting a tracker on Major. She can’t rescue Curtis because of the bars on his
room… but she can scratch him so his brains can’t be eaten for visions. This
means Curtis, about to get married to a human woman and mother of his child, is
giving up a lot.
But Fillmore Graves
has got more attention for Angus’s church. And Angus has decided to hold up
Blaine as his zombie Jesus which is somewhat disturbing and weird. He even
almost, almost, owns his abuse of Blaine. Though he does this by dragging out
his housekeeper Frau Bader - a woman who helped raise Blaine as a child. And
was extremely abusive towards him
Angus offers the old
woman up to his congregation to kill as a gesture to Blaine to get him on side…
I think it is rather scapegoating the old woman where Blaine clearly sees Angus
as his abuser. He has spent far more time hating on daddy dearest than he has
on Frau Bader… I don’t think this will work that well for Angus
I also think the
French Detective may be becoming a convert which will add to Chase’s endless
worries
Dale has eaten the
Mayor’s brain, though she’s really not a fan, and is trying to prove Blaine
murdered him. Which he did. But he covered his tracks very very very well
Oh, and Points to
this episode for being so very self aware. Yes they’re fourth wall breaking but
they’re awesome
Like when watching a
TV series, Ravi mentions how he loves the villain because he’s so good at
chewing the scenary and even though he does despicable things you can’t help
but root for him
And then cuts to Blaine. And doesn’t that just sum up Blaine, the magnificent bastard, so well?
Or when Ravi
complains about how shows have bad episodes when they run out of money and all
the action happens off-screen - which has Clive recounting all the amazing
action scenes off camera (especially since Liv and her irrelevant brain get
banned from field duty - finally some consequences for these brain behaviours
as Dale angrily makes it clear they’re not an excuse). I do like some subtle
4th wall breaking.
After the rescue of
Curtis there’s some more fallout - Major discovers Liv is renegade. He’s
furious she risked his life with the Tracker and I don’t remotely care because
Major is a tool of fascism now and think someone should beat him repeatedly
other than in his pretty pretty face. Levon tries to get him to leave, Major
who is so much bigger, easily rams him against a wall and Liv kicks him out.
Maybe their
relationship is now irreparably shattered
