Reno
The In Kraut
I don't agree that Black Summer doesn't have character development, it's just that it only had two fairy short seasons so far and both take place within a brief amount of time. The show only has three core characters, they are well drawn and well acted and they all change over time.Y'see, I liked the silliness of Sharknado, so I was game for more of the same but in the zombie genre and Z Nation was a bit of light relief after a lot of The Walking Dead - they even had a zombie tornado!
So long as you don't mind that it's tongue in cheek and sends up the zombie genre, it's easy to get into and it's funny, in a low budget so bad that it's good kind of way, it's entertaining nonsense.
And there's more of an overarching narrative arc, and episodic and seasonal narrative arcs, and much more character development than in Black Summer, and it's an okay ensemble cast, but I loved the Murphy character and Warren was good too.
I'm no fan of silliness of the Sharknado kind, I prefer horror to be suspenseful and scary and Black Summer works for me on that level. Most of zombie films have a spoof quality about it now, so it's not something I'm hugely drawn to in a zombie show.
There is one question I have though,
like in The Walking Dead, people don't become infected via a bite as in most post-Romero zombie lore, everybody who dies automatically becomes a zombie.
