Episode 244: In The Flesh (Season 1)

This is a special episode in which I look at the two seasons of the BBC zombie Drama IN THE FLESH as recommended by Kieren from Eerie Earth podcast, writer and narrator of The Fallen. Now, I never saw this, didn’t even know it existed to be fair, it ran for two season over two years in 2013-14 and has 9 episodes that I think add up to an hour each.

The premise. Set after "The Rising", which is the show's take on a zombie apocalypse, the drama focuses on a reanimated young man, Kieren Walker, and his return to his local community.

The show, set in the fictional village of Roarton, Lancashire, though filmed in Marsden, West Yorkshire,[7] depicts life several years after "The Rising". This period, in (fictional) 2010, was a time when thousands of people who had died in 2009 suddenly re-animated as mindless, homicidal, brain-eating zombies world-wide.

By the time of the series, normality has begun to return. A full-fledged zombie apocalypse has long since been prevented by armed resistance from the living, especially from armed local militias who patrolled their communities and actively hunted the re-animated. Meanwhile, a scientific solution for the zombie phenomenon has been found, with the development of a medication to restore consciousness to the undead, allowing them to remember their time alive and who they once were.

So… basically that sounds like the Elliot Page movie THE CURED, except rather than fast moving infected these are shufflers mixed with the Australian show THE RETURNED

It stars Luke Newberry as Kieran, maybe that’s why Kieran from Eerie earth like it

With Ricky Tomlinson, Hellraiser 2s Kennth Cranham and Black Mirrors Francis Magee

Ratings

IMDB give it 7.9/10 which is inordinately high and 97 on RT

And I gotta say, I did Like it. It did feel very BBC. Or Channel 4. Very Being Human. Much better than that shat GEN Z from Channel 4. I think the acting was superb. The villains were villainous. The good guys were good but compromised. Luke Newberry was very good. The mothers were amazing. I would highly recommend it.

7/10 from me. Well done, Kieren.