Review of Dead Set

Dead Set (2008)
6/10
Aimless and pointless
9 August 2012
This preposterous piece of rubbish full of cardboard cutout characters should be banished to the bin which served as a toilet in the series.

I'm a big Brooker fan but this series left me wondering what on earth compelled him to write such trite, glib characters and then try and shoehorn them into a zombie plot.

Maybe it was his way of practising for "Black Mirror", which was far superior to this tripe.

There's no excuse for all of the characters in the film doing what they do and the way that they do it, and my suspension of disbelief ran out when nobody ever mentioned the word "Zombie" or ever mentioned having seen a zombie film.

As for "multi-layered social criticism" then an episode of Top Cat has more of that than this mish-mash of pseudo intellectual claptrap.

My friend who recommended this to me will be severely punished when we next meet.

Cheers, Will
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