Inspired by the US release of The Girl with All the Gifts, a fantastic British zombie movie that offers an exciting and emotionally complex take on the genre, Ed is joined by John Hunter to talk about the film, as well as the ongoing dominance of zombies in pop culture. They also try to explain the success of TV shows like The Walking Dead and iZombie, draw parallels between the rise of zombie fiction and the concurrent rise of superhero cinema, and discover unusual parallels between the zombie and Western genres.
Note: The zombie cop show Ed was trying to remember towards the end of the episode was Babylon Fields.
00:00:00 - 00:05:27 - Intro & News
00:05:28 - 00:20:25 - Ed & John discuss The Girl with All the Gifts
00:20:26 - 00:54:51 - Ed & John discuss Zombies in pop culture
00:54:52 - 00:59:19 - SRS Recommends & Outro
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320. Blind Spots
319. Emily's Birthday 2021
318. Best of 2020
317. Art That Helped Us Get Through 2020
316. HBOMax and the Future of Theatrical Releases
315. Autism in Film and TV
314. Autumnal Movies
313. Frequent Collaborations
312. Elections
311. Borat and the Limits of Satire
310. Qui-Bye
309. One Location Movies
308. This Hits Different
307. Dreams
306. The State of Streaming
305. News Roundup
304. Time
303. The Cultural Weight of the Criterion Collection
302. Late Night Television
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