Dead Set - E4 Big Brother Zombie thing!

fkn hell ain't half gruesome

Dead Shit

It's taken a month to come up with that?

Dick Set

i bought it on DVD expecting great things. Instead I got something that provided very little that hasn't already been covered by Shaun of the Dead or 28 Days Later between them, except not as funny as the former, nor as exciting as the latter. Once the initial "look it's Davina McCall going rabid insane" and "LOL TV producer doing a dump in a bucket" thing has subsided there's very little left to hold the attention. Whole episodes go by without anything happening, the character behaviour is off (why does Kevin Eldon open the zombie gate at the end?). And the funniest line in the show is "he ate an egg" (or something like that). I like Charlie Brooker's columns, and NAthan BArley was great, but what was the point in this?

As iterated by someone else in the other thread; I do wish, in a satirical zombie 'thing', that someone would go "fuck me; zombies", and the failure of Brooker to do so makes him a poor man's Simon Pegg.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, October 29, 2008 5:32 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://rocktimists.blogspot.com/2008/10/current-affairs.html

well that blog post was on the money.

what gets me is the pointlessness of it all. there have been something like at least three hand-made zombie films shot in our locale over the last five years, and without subverting that genre it's the same idea done on a bigger budget with the inclusion of Big Brother. I had high expectations from the online teaser which made it look like a very clever gore movie, but really it's no different from the aforementioned student movies.

The last episode was quite good.

It was all a bit pointless