All of Us Are Dead (2022)

If you liked Train to Busan, You will love this one.

This is a great drama. Don’t listen to people who rated it low. It was clear as glass in the trailer what to expect. I did not give it ten because the romance was really unnecessary. There wasn’t even a need for that. And also they wasted the SML. There wasn’t even a need for his role other than defending his love and kicking zombies. The ML was really good. Both FL and SFL were great too but it would’ve been so much better if they just kept SFL alone because the FL didn’t really have any part to play other than lose her loved ones. The other characters are all likeable too. This is definitely worth a rematch but I hope they will bring back the main lead again because the ending literally hinted it(kinda). So if there will ever be season 2, they can’t really take the story far with SFL alone. This is worth every hype for a zombie show. 12 hours of zombie survival mode???what more do you need!!

P.S. Ep5 is literally best episode in the whole show. 1 hour of intense zombie chasing I’ve ever seen.

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Extreme highs and lows without enough heart.

I know nothing about the webtoon, but "All of Us Are Dead" being another Korean Zombie story was enough to pique my interest. The story itself feels pretty standard, with the expected tropes, yet still unique. The zombies are well done and realistically creepy, but something about this series disappoints and it was hard to put a finger on why while watching. Now that I've finished I think I understand what stopped me from loving this drama, the convoluted back story, and too many main characters that I didn't like or care about. It's hard to get invested in a zombie story if you don't care if they get eaten or not. Don't get me wrong, I loved the concept behind how the zombies were created, but that part didn't get enough focus, and I loved the school setting, but too many moments in this show seemed to drag out with too many characters that fell flat or were too stereotypical. The main one being Park Ji Hoo as Nam On Jo. Yes, she was a realistic teen, but her salty attitude throughout was more annoying than empathetic. Seeing zombies chase students gets super repetitive when you don't care enough about the people being chased.

Nam On Jo is just one of the main group of students we follow through this fast escalating zombie crisis. There's Lomon as Soo Hyeok the strong and crushworthy, Jo Yi Hyun as antisocial class President Nam Ra, and Yoon Chan Young as Chung San, my favorite character, the classic sympathetic hero. The rest of the classmates are a mix of bullies, clowns, snobs, BFFs, and assorted personalities you're likely to find in your average basic teen drama, but because things escalate so quickly some characters felt too generic to make me sympathize enough. In the middle of the chaos, we are faced with who likes who and who resents who, cliques, classism, bullying, bonding, selfishness, and insane revenge but because I didn't care enough about most of their relationships or feelings, I was left waiting for the next "event" to happen to them. I will admit that there was always an epic event on the horizon, often a pretty shocking one that kept me wanting to watch the next episode, but the time in between those events got pretty boring. Maybe I was looking for more chemistry between characters, or a stronger origin story since visually the show does an amazing job. Nothing about the acting is bad, it's just not as emotionally exciting as it was visually exciting. The story itself is definitely heavy on emotional "moments" but they left me dry-eyed when they normally wouldn't so I must partially blame the cast. Unforgettable scenes filled with mostly forgettable characters are the result. There is an extremely memorable extreme bully (with a mullet) but the rest of the cast is pretty generic. Lee Yoo Mi as Na Yeon is one of the few characters with a clear story arc, likable or not. Don't even get me started on the baby, or the little girl... too many wasted and unexplored storylines to count.

Would I watch this again, Oddly yes. I think knowing the story and characters better may make earlier scenes better too. It's a shorter series, 12 episodes, which is also a decent binge length. I also probably missed some important key things in some episodes while distracted by the shock of the zombies. This seems like the kind of drama that may make more sense with a second viewing. I would definitely be tempted to skip many scenes, especially the bio teacher's video diaries, but I know there are probably details I missed while bored. I was also satisfied with the ending, although a little disappointed that the zombie mess had no clear resolution and felt rushed to an end.

If you are a zombie fan, then this is worth watching. At least for some good and terrible zombie survival strategies. If you hate gore and violence but love a good drama, you honestly may want to skip this one. This drama is gory and dark and explores survival instincts, trust, loyalty, and is pretty high on lost faith in humanity points, but without a major throughline besides basic survival, the story is the weakest part of this drama. It is suspenseful, but the suspense is based on who will survive and who won't. There's really great 'WTH did I just watch' end of episode suspense to keep viewers hooked, but the zombie lore was pretty messy with plot holes I would have noticed more if I cared more. Some of the social commentary is pretty heavy-handed and doesn't go deep enough to feel relevant, which I think is this drama's overall issue. The Drama "Happiness" did a better job of telling a zombie survival genre and social commentary story without being too preachy... shout out for Bae Hae Sun for having to go through Zombies again! lol! Although this time her character seemed more like a glorified cameo.

Overall, "All of Us are Dead" is another Zombie drama for our times. Since this pandemic has many people questioning how we deal with a sudden crisis, and Zombie movies are a great way to explore Human Nature and Instincts, the timing of this series is perfect. What I didn't expect was a story filled with high adrenaline-inducing zombies to feel so tedious and I certainly didn't expect to have so many 'rooting for the zombies to eat someone' moments. Arguing, running, fighting, arguing, more running, and more fighting... the fight and zombie choreography is pretty epic, but I wish this drama's emotional moments matched the action. I can definitely see this being left somewhat open-ended for the possibility of a season 2, which I would watch, but not with super high expectations. Not quite overrated, but not as good as it could have been. I just know if zombies come I'm avoiding all teens. lol!

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This got 8.5 and Hell bound got 7.4 ratings !!!!!

what the fuck is wrong with drama show viewers a show like this with the most annoying characters and nothing makes sense got
8.5 Ratings while a show Hellbound got 7.4 which had a very good story and great characters the scores should have been flipped. The ending to All Of Us Are Dead didn't make any sense because how was Nam Ra just fine without eating humans and didn't have any hunger AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!!! I Just Can't with these ratings all the stupid shows are most rated except a few and all the good shows just do average this pisses me off
and why Didn't Nam On Jo (Main Girl) become zombie she gets bit in the first episode like what ?

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I finished Ep 4 BUT STILL NO PROGRESS

Im giving this a chance to watch bec its my time to watch a Zombie epidemic themed ASIAN DRAMA so i still dont get why this drama is so OVERHYPED just like squid game yeah i get the Zombie themes are getting trendy and mainstream but this drama is VERY VERY SLOW AND DRAGGY from ep 1-4 i was expecting many actions scenes but nahhh they are just there waiting for nothing inside a classroom what the zombie outbreak spread everywhere its like the scenes of zombies have more airtime than the main characters lmao and this drama is trying hard to be train to busan 2.0 never watched the movie but the drama is WORSE and DISSAPOINTING the onlike is the CGI and the sound effects to make it more eerie suspense and scary af lol but as the story progress nothing special os happening and the way they put a slight romance is not helping me its cringey af ngl oh well i wait for few more episodes for my final verdict as of now is still a mid for me i hope the plot gets better from ep 5 and onwards tskkk... I was hoping more ughhhh...

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So giving a name tag means Let’s date?

Oof Let’s start with this, I was actually excited for this drama -for real. I don’t craze for horror but I enjoy gore which there is a difference. Seeing how creative one can get with zombie gore is what I was looking forward to. In this case I felt “creativity” went out the window. Zombies were just the same as any other and it was unclear the whole time how to kill them, for some it seemed like an arrow or knife to the neck was enough but other times it didn’t work, no consistency whatsoever. The storyline felt like they wanted to tell a little bit of every characters story but none of there personalities got fully fleshed out. Quite frankly, by the end I didn’t even remember some of their names… that is what little impact they had on me. So many missed opportunities in this show too, for example there are a few characters like the girl who was in the room with the food who I felt could have had a really rich development arc and the bullied girl as well, so much potential! Made me wish I was with the script writers and push them harder because really that was what was lacking-editing the story. The way it ended felt more like this could have just been better off as a movie. It really didn’t need to be that long, I could have lived without the false hope of some of the characters outcomes. Very disorganized show, if you are fond of creativity then just pass this one and re-watch train to busan.

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Most frustrating thing ever

This frustrated me so much from episode 2 until 3 I just couldn’t carry on anymore.
The characters are stupid and impulsive people, the FL (I think) just sits on the floor while the zombies eat everyone I would’ve ran for my life, then her friend got bit but you still want to hug her and not let her go wtf is wrong with you yeah she’s your best friend but think about your life she’s gone but your not !!
And yeah some people might think I probably would’ve done the same as her in that situation but like I think it’s just common sense to run, it’s a common fight or flight situation and tbh I know for a fact both of us would have never been able to fight so why stay there, if that guy never saved her she would’ve been a zombie long ago.
Then the girl who infected the other guy in the broadcasting room, most stupid and impulsive move ever like no one likes you and doing that just made them hate you 10x more, and I think if you wanted to survive you would need more people and like if you really wanted to do a selfish b**ch move, I would have sacrificed him when my life was actually in danger. BUT WAIT IT THEN GETS WORSE the girl who saw what she did said nothing, wtf is going on in your mind she could have prevented that but no she kept her little mouth shut, then the girl who did it just cries and yells why everyone is targeting her like are you stupid you basically just killed someone, is absolutely mental I wanted to punch them both.
I wanted to carry it on but from the other reviews I’ve read there is absolute no character development.

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Disappointed To Say The Least

So I've been wanting to watch this from the day they announced it was being made. With that being said I am so sad that it didn't live up to the hype. As someone who is VERY easy to please I just about never dislike a movie or show especially a zombie one at that.

There are 3 things that ruined this drama for me: 1.) The main ML and Fl characters 2.) The FL actress's acting 3.) the storyline felt predictable and at moments too slow/boring and details added that were not needed.

The side characters are more intriguing and better at acting which makes it painful for me to constantly watch the ML and FL. Plus I HATE the whole childhood friend love plot they included. If they changed the lead actors and didn't include unnecessary scenes I probably would have loved this drama.

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Literally wasted my time

I must assume people who loved this show are probably young teenagers who don't pay enough attention to notice the actual lack of logic, loopholes and pointless characters in this drama. I can't remember the last time I've seen something with so little logic and so many characters who are overly emotional but at the same time selfish, dumb and inconsistent with their actions.
I also don't know why they wasted the characters who were actually interesting and played by good actors (unlike the main characters). I could literally think of a thousand better ways to develop or even kill these characters. I really don't understand this to the point that I'm wondering if someone actually watched this drama before putting it up on Netflix.

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Seperti kuduga, drama korea genre apapun eksekusinya ya tetep ala drakor. lol

Sayangnya kecintaan gw sama hal terkait zombie, membuat gw tahan sampai habis akan drama-drama tak penting yang dihadirkan dengan adegan2 dramatisir ala drama korea pada umumnya.

Gw gak mau spoiler, tapi pembunuhan beberapa karakter yang terkesan sia-sia menjadi satu kelamahan serial ini. Padahal pembangunan (eh pengembangan) karakter sedari pilot episode yang begitu kental terasa hampa gitu aja demi menampilkan sosok sosok diadegan terakhir sebagai “karakter terkuat”. *fyuh*

Tapi gw harap banget netflix gak cancel serial ini, biar bagaimanapun series ini layak buat ada sequelnya.

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Gore à souhait? carrément. Adrénaline? peut-être. Un scénario complexe et riche? sûrement pas.

C'est tendance depuis toujours. Et parfois, il faut bien se le dire, un peu d'adrénaline ne fait pas de mal. Et les histoires de zombie sont une bonne façon de passer sa nuit sous sa couette, hululant à qui mieux mieux lorsqu'une invasion oblige nos protagonistes à faire le plein d'astuces pour ne pas être mangé.
Oui, je ne nie pas. Je fais partie de ceux qui aime avoir peur. Avoir 2 de tension en se bouffant les ongles dans l'espoir de voir le héros ou l'héroïne s'en sortir avec classe, c'est un peu ce que je recherche. Et pourquoi pas avec une pincée d'humour. Une petite romance ou bromance ne serait pas de refus. Mais surtout une histoire qui tient la route.
J'ai pu en délirer avec délectation avec "Train to Busan" ou encore "Kingdom". L'émotion alliée à une tension soutenu servi avec un scénario intéressant m'ont réconcilié avec ce genre. Je suis de celle qui a grandit avec "Resident evil" (jeu et film). Et question horreur et gore, je suis de la génération "Amityville", toutes ces sagas redondantes mais tellement "drôles" comme les "Jason" ou les "Freddy Krueger" ou le très malsain "La colline a des yeux". Je suis donc loin d'être une novice.
Mais. Je ne cherche plus ce genre de frisson.
Avec les k-dramas, j'ai pu découvrir un univers différent où le scénario et les protagonistes nous obligent souvent à prier sincèrement pour leur sauvegarde. Estampillé "Netflix", j'avoue avoie eu des préjugés et une crainte....justifiée. Si je me suis détournée des séries US qui m'ont nourrie toutes ces années, ce n'était certes pas pour y replonger version coréenne...non merci.

Le scénario est donc tristement classique avec les éternels protagonistes destinés à être sacrifiés sur l'autel du voyeurisme et érigés en tant qu'héros dont la mort fut bête, voire inutile mais assez sanglante pour nous en donner des nausées . Des antagonistes stupidement méchants, sans passés complexes qui justifieraient au moins leur attitude craignos. Des romances fades qui font soupirer et ne parlons même pas des liens d'amitiés sans aucune ambition si ce n'est faire pleurer dans les chaumières. Et je ne vous ferais pas l'honneur de parler des personnages de passage (le streamer, la nana meurtrière prise de remord, le bébé....) d'une telle inutilité si ce n'est nous avoir mener sur de fausses spéculations (on en est encore à se demander ce que sont devenues les souris, où si la souris a mordu ou non un des personnages...). Bref, niveau scénario, ce fut prévisible à 100%, illogique et souvent absurde.

Et sinon, est-ce que cela a le mérite de faire monter la tension de nos neurones? Un peu, il faut l'avouer. Quelques scènes sont intenses et ont le mérite de nous faire retenir le souffle. Dommage que la tension retombe dès la première stupidité d'un personnage amenant inévitablement à sa mort ou au sacrifice d'un autre personnage.
Bien que je puisse comprendre que certains ont besoin de voir, je trouve les scènes gores malsain et à vomir (au sens propre), ces images n'avaient pas vraiment besoin d'être montré de manière aussi cru. C'est un affront à notre imagination....
La vulgarité des insultes dérange lorsqu'on est habitué au drama coréens ou chinois. Si cela devait souligner la réalité des dialogues, peut-être.... Mais je cherche en quoi cette réalité là peut nous permettre de nous immerger dans ce monde apocalyptique....
Idem pour les scènes de harcèlement (très à la mode...) ou d'agression sexuel, le malaise s'installe vite. Et ne sert en rien l'histoire. Ah, si! cela est sensé nous faire comprendre leur rage (aux victimes) et heu, le pourquoi de leur action inutile ( j'avoue tout de même qu'un affrontement entre la victime et l'agresseur, cela aurait eu plus de sens que de brûler l'école...).

Alors certains me diront que cela fait partie du jeu. Sûrement. Mais je n'ai pas eu ce sentiment désagréable et cette envie de vomir avec "Train to Busan" ou " Kingdom". J'ai pu voir avec énormément de plaisir ces deux titres avec mes ados.
Avec "All of are dead", même mes ados ont pudiquement baissé leur yeux.

Dans tous les cas, ce drama devrait plaire aux amateur de sensation forte (quoique....) mais si vous recherchez un drama épique avec un scénario riche, passez votre chemin.

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