They say you cannot judge a book by its cover, but I have long asserted that you can judge a television shoe by its title. Take the latest British import coming to Hulu, ZOMBOAT! Of course I will watch something called ZOMBOAT! I do not need to see a trailer. I do not need to know who is in it. I do not need to know who created it. All I need to know is that it is called ZOMBOAT! God bless whoever said, you know Zomboat is a good name for a show, but do you know what will make it better? All caps and an exclamation point. Awesome.
For those not sold on the title alone (fine, whatever), ZOMBOAT! stars two sisters Leah Brotherhead (White Gold) and Cara Theobold (Downton Abbey) who decide to escape the zombie by boat. Which seems pretty wise considering zombies cannot swim. I do believe Fear the Walking Dead tried that back in season one but evil humans foiled that plan. The Walking Dead and many other zombie properties exist in this world which is a nice change of pace from shows with people who are just clueless to the concept of the undead; but what they learned from NCIS New Orleans is hilarious. Although the boat they get on is a canal boat that is barely faster than the classic slow walking Romero zombies on this show.
Making things more complicated are two stowaways, two bros, one who likes to take his shirt off, the other who likes to complain about the how the other one still finds time to take his shirt off, even in the zombie apocalypse. So the four have to traverse the English waterways looking for a safe place, though they weirdly leave the safe confines of their boat a little too often. But I guess you need to have a reason to be sprayed with blood at least once in a zombie show.
ZOMBOAT! Premieres today on Hulu.
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