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A medical student who becomes a zombie joins a Coroner's Office in order to

gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat so that she can maintain her

humanity. But every brain she eats, she also inherits their memories. Now she

uses her abilities to solve their deaths with help from the Medical examiner and

a police detective. Written by vhavnalIMDB.com

iZOMBIE (2015) ALMOST OFFICIAL TV REVIEW BLACK & MULTICULTURAL ZOMBIES DEBATE 3-30-2015

3-30-2015 - Written By: David L. $Money Train$ Watts Journalist/Film Reviewer

FuTurXTV & HHBMedia.com - David Velo Stewart Editor www.hiphopbattle.com

iZombie is now officially the dumbest CW Network show ever created and aired. I wont

even bother to dignify iZombie with an official TV review until I see a Black zombie, a

Hispanic zombie and an Asian zombie. And I am not protesting iZombie because there

are not some token minority actors in the cast. The shows Chief Medical Examiner is Dr.

Ravi Chakrabarti who is played smartly by newcomer Rahul Kohli. And iZombies lead

homicide detective Clive Babineaux is played by Malcom Goodwin. I really have liked Malcolm as an actor since he made a highly impressive TV debut in A&Es limited series

Breakout Kings (2011-2012). Shea Daniels was very complex and streetwise character

that you probably had not seen a minority ex-felon character as well written or acted since

The Wire went off the air a few years before Breakout Kings began. I wish Clive was

bit more edgier and sharper, but this is the CW and he is playing exactly the type of slow

witted and laidback police officer or detective that you would see on The Flash, Arrow,

Supernatural, etc.,. Clive or Dr. Ravi would not be joining CBSs Criminal Minded or

NBCs SVU unless all their law officer characters suddenly died and became zombies.

Liv Moore (Rose McIver) & Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti (Rahul Kohli) & Clive Babineaux (Malcolm Goodwin)

David L. $Money Train$ Watts FuTurXTV HHBMedia.com info@hhbmedia.com www.hhbmedia.com David Velo Stewart

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Nope my main criticism with iZombie is its Abercrombie & Fitch inspired casting of

zombies who are all white already and then when they die and come back to life as pale or

ghostly white and their hair magically becomes platinum white. I have seen the first three

episodes of iZombie and I understand why Liv Moore, who is played with a fun and

tongue and cheek swagger by Rose McIver, is a healthy looking white before a tragic

boat party fire/explosion and becomes WWEs Paige/Sheamus goth-white looking. But then

by the second episode we are introduced to another zombie party survivor in Blain DeBeers

(David Anders) who also has Casper white skin and hair. I would have let this slide as well,

but then Blain decided to infect a rich middle-age white woman after their one night stand.

And the next day this normal white woman becomes Casper white and her dirty blond hair

now has a big white streak indicating it is going platinum-white as well. The woman also

has a craving for human brains and Blain is happy to supply them to her for a hefty fee.

Now after I saw this second episode of iZombie I had many more questions about this

silly show and whether we would ever see Black zombies. I want to know if a dark skin

Black actor like Malcolm, becomes a lighter zombie on iZombie. Does the Black person

go from Sammy Sosa dark to Sammy Sosa bleached white? Or is it like when chocolaty

brown Kerry Washington was photo shopped by InStyle to be as light looking as Selmas

Carmen Ejogo? And Black women wearing platinum weaves is nothing new and now quite

common. But Brothas having their normally black hair suddenly becoming platinum white

would be sort of weird as hell. Skin bleaching is a multi-billion dollar global business built

on the myths and lies that having lighter or white skin is more desirable than darker hues.

I know this sounds beyond cra cra to fixate on what Black zombies would look like, but I

had no choice once iZombie established that physical changes that happen when you are

infected or get killed by a zombie. White actors can choose to get tans out in the sun or

tanning salons. Or they can spray tons of bronzer to quickly simulate having a tan. But

what will Hispanic, Indian or Asian actors do to become noticeable zombies on iZombie

is beyond me. And maybe a few times when I watch The Walking Dead I wondered why

all the standard Black zombies that attack the main cast looked like skinny crack heads,

but I also knew that The Walking Dead have a wide variety of Black actors and if any

of them dies they would instantly become a zombie. I also have a twisted fantasy that if Liv

eats the brains of a Black zombie that look like the cast of Love & Hip-Hop Atlanta can

Liv then rap and act ratched. So right now I give CWs iZombie $ almost TV review

until I see how they portray or if they dare attempt to show Black or multicultural zombies.

David L. $Money Train$ Watts FuTurXTV HHBMedia.com info@hhbmedia.com www.hhbmedia.com David Velo Stewart