“Look at us solving mysteries. We should get a van and a dog.”
I came for the sure-to-be-hilarious teengirl!Major, but stayed for the Clive flashbacks and character development in this episode, “Zombie Knows Best.” Upon hearing about this episode and seeing the trailer, I expected to partake in an episode filled with Major and Liv constantly bickering, some Major selfies, and perhaps some Dad jokes from Liv. Fortunately for me, most of that occurred throughout the episode, but we also got so much more!
Now that the season premiere has finally aired, it looks like we’re getting back into our weekly case/brain of the week. Or should I say brains, since Major is partaking as well?
The brains/case of the week is Stanley and Cindy Chen, a father and daughter that tragically are hit by a huge truck head-on while Stan is driving her to ice skating practice. Solving the case wasn’t that interesting (or surprising) to me, this time around. It involved Cindy’s friend Winslow, her illegal relationship with her stepdad Ken, and her mother, not having any of it. Winslow’s mother was the killer, thanks to using her parental control app on Winslow’s phone to find Stan and Cindy. Usually I’m at least a little interested in who killed the “brain of the week,” but not this time. I just wanted more Clive flashbacks.
“If they want to eat brain mash, let them eat brain mash. In this house, we eat whole brains and solve murders.”
I finally got one of the things I wanted with this show, seeing a bit of Clive’s life prior to knowing Liv, etc. We see his life living next door to Wally and his Mom, Anna. As he tells the lieutenant his relations to the recent victims, we find that Wally and his Mom weren’t just neighbors that he would occasionally see. In fact, I would say that Anna was a sort of love interest to Clive. What I want to know is how Wally and Anna became zombies in the first place. In terms of who killed them, it’s suggested from Wally and Anna’s recent neighbor, a anti-zombie kind of guy, that fellow conspiracy theorists located his address to kill the “brain eaters” next door. I still think Vivian/Fillmore Graves had something to do with it. What about you?
Lastly, I have to mention the effects Liv and Major go through, due to Cindy and Stan’s brains. Thinking Stanley’s brain will be of more use, Liv eats his and starts being as supportive as any (good) dad. Meanwhile, Major eats Cindy’s brain and is suddenly singing along to Katy Perry and being overly emotional about pretty much everything. I don’t think I have a favorite phrase; everything Robert Buckley said was perfect! Although I did want him to say something was so “fire” or that he was so “extra”/”shook” since I know those are phrases that have been circulating around the internet/I assume around the halls of high school?
What was also such a treat for us, was not only seeing Clive’s reaction to them picking out and eating brains, but also having to deal with the side effects of them both. I’m excited to see more of Clive’s involvement with the group in future episodes. Now just give me flashbacks featuring Peyton and we’ll be on good terms, iZombie.
What did everyone think of iZombie, 3.02: “Zombie Knows Best”?
The new episode, 3.03: “Eat, Pray, Liv” airs Tuesday at 9/8c on the CW! The trailer can be viewed below.
It’s interesting how almost lighthearted this trailer is, when clearly featured is Major slowly dying and a tense conversation between Angus and Blaine.
I know, we need more Peyton! I’m thinking the twitter storyline thing will probably involve flashbacks. Sounds like someone’s talking crap about her, and I don’t see how that could relate to stuff she’s doing right now – unless they’re dragging her for her moment with Blaine (I adore Peyton but I have to think that’s against the rules somehow, or at the very least frowned upon. On the other hand, I really truly want to believe she’s a badass, consummate professional who knows exactly what she can and can’t do in relation to her job).
ANYWAY, Ravi’s whining about the thing with Blaine is pissing me off. Like it’s making him kind of dickish, and how very dare they do that to Ravi? There’s nothing in his prior character that would suggest he’s the weirdo jealous type like this.
YESSSS about all the Clive stuff, though. And i’m with you about fillmore graves. Vivian is itching to pull the trigger, imo. Frankly I”m a little surprised she doesn’t just – what moral high ground could she be defending? Why wait around for an excuse? Unless she doesn’t think all of her zombie henchmen would fall into line without the excuse.
Oh yes, I didn’t even think about potential Peyton flashbacks with the Twitter story-line! Yeah, I have a feeling that it’s going to be something about her past. I don’t think there would even be any evidence of their “relationship” since they kept it private…aside from Blaine saving Peyton in the finale (which doesn’t even prove anything).
I KNOW! I was thinking the same thing about Ravi! Where is this jealous behavior coming from?
I still think Vivian killed Wally/Anna, maybe to keep the fear of humans killing zombies alive and to make it seem that the two can’t live in the same universe together. The look on Vivian’s face when Clive gave her his business card in 3.01.
I think in due time, Vivian will explain her master villainy plan to Major and he’ll either comply with it or tell the others. I’m hoping for the latter.
Well when the cops showed up after Boss’s people went after Peyton, that one cop definitely picked up on the fact that it was Blaine who went after her. Their cover story was that he just had unrequited feelings. But like, even Clive knew something was up, and he barely knows either of them, so. It definitely is raising some eyebrows.
I saw a post, and it was talking about this in relation to liv and major more specifically, but the whole blog talks about a bunch of cw shows like supergirl and the flash too, and it was like “i want to take romantic relationships away from the cw for a while.” and i’m like, yeah, as much as i am endgame ravioli, that is definitely for the best. I hate this whole jealousy = true feelings thing. I hate it, it’s terrible, it needs to go away. Like we can have Ravi struggle with his discomfiture a bit, but then we need to move on, because otherwise he is looking kind of jerkish. But not full on like a jerk yet, because at least he hasn’t actually whined about it to peyton.
Yeah definitely. Vivian is up to no good. Although I see a potential third option for Major, hwich is that he doesn’t tell the rest of Team Z about it, appears to go along with it with Vivian, with the ultimate plan of taking her out secretly and heroically in a suicide mission. It’s a combination of his two modus operandi’s from the first two seasons, and I’ve been getting heroic sacrifice vibes from Major since late season 1.