Zombies

In a genre packed with "infected", the zombies in Cadaver are unabashedly supernatural with a unique origin story inspired by the Scandinavian setting; itself a welcome change from all the undead stories set in the US. The writing is a little on the weak side but the story telling is better and the various characters better still. Also unique for a zombie yarn is the happy (if bittersweet) ending.

My main complaints are the author using new chapters to jump to different characters to build tension. Usually instead of tension it typically built annoyance. And a guy in his early 20s being kissed by a girl who's age is unstated but heavily implied to be under 18. It left a sour note at the end of an otherwise enjoyable 7 book series.

4 out of 5 stars.

I thought it was good but not great. My chief complaint is brevity. At 6 episodes vs 12-16 for the rest of the series, FtWD promised to show us the start of the zombie apocalypse, something that both the source material & first show skipped over, only to itself skip over most of the time period between Monument Day (the main outbreak) and the culmination of Project Cobalt. Monument Day itself is not sufficiently depicted though the scenes we do see like at the hospital are excellent. The pickup truck journey away from the barbershop should have received much more screen time, it could have been a full episode. And with money already spent on sets during the "safe zone" episodes, you'd think you could have gotten another episode or 2 made without spending extravagantly more money or anything feeling like filler. Most of my other complaints are little details like Commercial Airliners crashing despite cockpit doors in the post-911 era being armored or the Lieutenant practicing his golf swing to make him a less sympathetic character.