hmm...never really watched VM...saw some of the film tho
say no more! i'm on it
CW & DC Comics' "iZombie" (From Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas) official thread
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hmm...never really watched VM...saw some of the film tho
say no more! i'm on it
Oh really?
TheNatureBoy
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I enjoyed the 2nd episode 
. The introduction of the David Anders character was great and he seems like he will be great in the role. Turning rich milf bytches to zombies and getting them to pay for brains 
. Chick came up off her checkbook with the quickness. I wonder how his story will develop over the season, he could create a nice little business 
. Liv was right to not trust him.
I also liked her taking on the traits of the painter this episode and the concept of her becoming a zombie helping her realize everything she was missing in her old life. The ex-boyfriend stuff is one of the weaker parts of the show right now though.
Plus the cop was right, it's always the spouse
. The introduction of the David Anders character was great and he seems like he will be great in the role. Turning rich milf bytches to zombies and getting them to pay for brains . Chick came up off her checkbook with the quickness. I wonder how his story will develop over the season, he could create a nice little business . Liv was right to not trust him.I also liked her taking on the traits of the painter this episode and the concept of her becoming a zombie helping her realize everything she was missing in her old life. The ex-boyfriend stuff is one of the weaker parts of the show right now though.
Plus the cop was right, it's always the spouse
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I just was stopping in here to day this show looks trash
How many times are nikkas gonna be wrong about assuming a CW show being trash before ever watching an episode?
IZOMBIE: ROSE MCIVER ON EATING BRAINS AND HER CHARACTER'S MANY SKILLS - INCLUDING GAMING
What to expect as Season 1 continues.
23 MAR 2015 BY ERIC GOLDMAN
iZombie debuted on the CW last week, introducing viewers to Liv, played by Rose McIver (Power Rangers RPM, Masters of Sex, Once Upon a Time) - a functioning member of the undead with some interesting talents (beyond the obvious), which include temporarily gaining the memories and skills of those whose brains she devours.
While iZombie was still in production on its first season (it’s since wrapped), I sat down with McIver to discuss her character, her abilities, her allies and more about the world of iZombie – including how her gamer costars Robert Buckley and Rahul Kohli became a big asset to her for one upcoming episode.
IGN: When you got this role, how much did you realize they’d be throwing at you every week, as Liv gains these different skills?
McIver: Not as much as I’ve been doing! What was appealing was I’d done so much drama lately, it was fun to see something that had a lot of comedy in it. She’s very droll, and there was sarcasm about her that I really liked. I knew it would be different than what I played but I thought that occasionally there’d be hints that we’d see but the fact that every week there’s been a totally new set of behaviors has been really -- I probably would have been quite intimidated. It’s been lucky that I didn’t know because I’ve just been doing it. You can’t complain or compare or anything you just do it. Hopefully, it all translates as well as it feels. I didn’t realize I’d been wearing as many hats as I have. It’s been a pleasure.
IGN: Has there been something that gave you the biggest "Oh my god, I have to do this this week?”
McIver: You know what? Someone asked me that earlier and I didn’t know - but I just realized! The intimidating one is in one episode, I know a lot about gaming. In my own life, I played Crash Bandicoot non-stop until my thumbs got blisters. Other than that, I didn’t really know a lot about the gaming world but working with Rahul [Kohli] and [Robert] Buckley, just the criticism, I’ve never felt so monitored on set. Like when I was talking about things and playing I was like “They know I’m faking it!” But hopefully their professional understanding of it all was very helpful. They told me what did and didn’t work and where you would be looking on the screen at that time. It was quite fun.
IGN: So for that episode they got to also function as on-set advisors?
McIver: Yeah, they were my consultants. My gaming consultants and they did a lot of research in their own time, which is gaming, gaming, gaming.
IGN: How much does Liv come to terms with what’s happening here?
McIver: I would say it’s not acceptance but self-awareness, definitely, and an ability to know where she’s at and what she can and can’t do that is very appealing to me and people in general. She’s not self-indulgent and wallowing anymore. She’s initially in a very dark place about her situation and through her relationship with Ravi and various revelations in the first few episodes, she starts to see that there could be a positive side. So while she doesn’t want to be a zombie, by any stretch, she does acknowledge the good things about it and where she can and can’t go.
IGN: With her relationships, she’s, for obvious reasons, pushed everyone back. As the show begins, as we move forward with Ravi and Babinaux, how much – well, Ravi obviously knows more—but how much is she letting them in? Has she still got her guard up with these people?
McIver: Ravi becomes her real confidant and partner in it all and emotional support in many ways and her champion. It feels like she’s boxing and he’s in her corner. Her relationship with Babinaux is very different because while she has this big secret from him, they grow very close and they work together a lot and she really respects him and he respects her. It’s an interesting one. But yeah, I think she starts to realize that even though there’s this big secret that she has from Babinaux, for example, she can be close to him and can really rely on him in other ways. It becomes interesting. It’s a good point of conflict for the show that there is this trust missing. He doesn’t know the truth. That makes her feel guilty. I think it makes her feel guilty in lots of respects, but she’s doing the best that she can to be a good zombie. [Laughs]
IGN: What were your discussions like with your executive producers, Rob [Thomas] and Diane [Ruggiero], about tone, because there is a great sense of humor to this show but you also want the emotional moments to land. Are there certain scenes where you start to lean one way and then maybe realize you should go back the other?
McIver: Definitely. I mean it’s riding the line a lot. It’s scary. I was quite blind for the first couple of episodes, particularly the pilot, where we were still really starting to find the show. But in episodes two and three we started to work out what the show is week to week and how much we indulge the humor and how much we indulge the drama. But I think for me, the big thing was just to be truthful. As surreal as the concept is, Liv is a very truthful character and I think everyone that she engages with, she’s doing so very genuinely. There is humor in the darkest of moments - People who I have loved and passed away, and very high stake situations where you can’t help but laugh. I think that’s very human. It’s been interesting working with a morgue technician. We have a consultant who we work with who talks about the humor they find in their job every day and you have to, otherwise you don’t do that and you can’t keep going. For me, it’s about being as honest to that as possible. I think it’s very representational of real life that there are these very dramatic things happening and there’s still a really sense of humor about it all and a wry tone that can come. Each director that we work with and our executive producers have just been incredible in making sure that they’re protecting us, tonally, as much as possible. For me it’s just about investing in it all and investing in the humor as much as I invest the drama.
IGN: I’ve had several joking conversations with people about iZombie that have been a variation of, “It’s a CW show! They can’t have her not be able to have romance at all!”
McIver: And they surround me with the four most handsome men on television.
IGN: And we have heard that there is a zombie suitor down the line.
McIver: There’s a zombie suitor. A zombie gentleman caller. That’s a very exciting prospect for Liv. Again, it would have been great if Blaine had been a nice guy, but he’s not. There’s somebody she meets and respects and they have a really interesting journey together and the conflict that she has to struggle with with Major and her residual feelings for him and their predicament. They are two of those individual relationships that coexist – Well, not at the same time. There’s nothing happening at the same time. But it’s very hard to let go of somebody ,so her juggling those feelings is an interesting part of the show, I think. It’s nice for her to potentially find love again.
IGN: I was talking to Rob earlier about how iZombie is a title that is going to be polarizing for some people. For you guys, whether it be Buffy or Pushing Daisies, are there shows you’ve talked about that you hope people see in the same vein with iZombie?
McIver: You mean things we would like comparison to? Buffy, Veronica Mars. I think those are the two I’ve thought about the most. Actually Angel, the character, within Buffy and being an ethical monster of sorts - I like that. I’ve definitely drawn upon that. People have talked about Orphan Black with the multiple hats and aliases. There’s all sorts of shows that hopefully we do have… I like the idea of, not comparisons but using similar ideas and playing with similar themes in some of the shows but the reason I’m not intimidated or threatened by that is we’re just so different from anything I’ve seen before. We have pieces of these things but it’s not Veronica Mars, it’s not Buffy, it’s not Orphan Black. It’s our own thing and that gives me a lot of confidence. I think that’s because of our writers and because of the source material that we came from. The comic is a really brilliant, funny, concept. It’s very dramatic but she’s a zombie and she’s trying to function as a human. That’s going to be funny. It’s going to be interesting. I’m just excited and any comparison I think those are great shows and what nice honor to be even considered in that realm.
IGN: I’m a big horror and gore fan myself and when I visited your set, we got to reach our hands into a bloody prop of a corpse. Your character of course have all these scenes where she’s chopping up the brains and what not. For you are those the days you’re like, “Ugh, okay!” or is it fun?
McIver: Every time the special effects people come in with a different corpse that they’ve made, those are really amazing. We just pinch ourselves. It’s surreal pulling back a sheet and there’s a human body that looks just like a human body and you can see what it would look like with a human body open. It’s quite confronting and fascinating to me. The brain eating is the part that the gore novelty has worn off. I would rather just have a sandwich at this point. But I’m very intrigued by the way we do them each time. They’ve made it fresh and original, every episode I consume them in a different way. I just had a brain shake last week, which was like the gelatin stuff with chocolate milk and corn syrup. It’s funny. That keeps it funny and interesting. We’ve got a great set decorating team and props and special effects.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/03...d-her-characters-many-skills-including-gaming
Not season 2 lol I've been tryna catch this tho
Carla from "Scrubs" guest-starred in this week's episode. I haven't seen her anything since "Scrubs".
TheNatureBoy
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I know she was on that Lifetime show Devious Maids.
Promo for the 3rd episode of the season that airs this week:
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Green Ranger
I Am Legend
Yo how are they already rearing episodes on tnt
they just showed the first two episodes tonight
they just showed the first two episodes tonight
The CW & TNT are corporate siblings. Warner Bros. also produces the show and Warner Bros. & TNT are corporate siblings. The show is based on a DC Comics/Vertigo property, which is also a corporate sibling of TNT. So....Corporate Synergy.It's not uncommon for a new Network show to air reruns of it's first couple episodes on a sister cable network.
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RhymesWell
All Star
What's up with Hulu having the wrong episode up?
Doesn't the newest episodes show up the next day?
Anyways you can stream the last 5 episodes of CW shows on the CW's website & apps.