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Dec 18, 2021 · Spoilers ahead for Day of the Dead Season 1, Episode 10, "Choke On 'Em."**. Paymart has become a veritable graveyard. Rhodes (Kevin O'Grady) gave the orders to his paramilitary cadre to exterminate any potential zombie threat, and that included everyone — human or not — taking refuge at the discount store.
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Day of the Dead is an American horror television series based on the film of same name that premiered on Syfy on October 15, 2021 and concluded on December 17, 2021.
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Posted: Oct 15, 2021 3:00 pm
Day of the Dead premieres on Syfy on Friday, Oct. 15. Below is a spoiler-free review.
Syfy’s Day of the Dead series is ostensibly based on George A. Romero’s 1985 film of the same name, but all that the two works seem to have in common is the zombie tropes that Romero pioneered: the dead are walking and the humans they’re trying to eat are just as monstrous. It’s a shallow attempt to bring in audiences with name recognition, and the premiere leaves little reason to keep watching.
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“The Thing in the Hole” provides a sort of slice of life of Mawinhaken and its residents, who mostly seem to deserve what’s coming to them. Paula is obsessed with winning her bid for reelection, nagging her spoiled bully of a son and sleazy husband Trey (Christopher Russell) not to do anything to tarnish her image. McDermott (Mike Dopud) is a good cop but a bad father to Cam (Keenan Tracey), who just wants to earn enough money to get out of a dead-end town where the quest for more jobs brought in a fracking operation causing earthquakes and perhaps the zombie apocalypse. But Cam still finds time to flirt with sassy parolee Lauren Howell (Natalie Malaika), who loves her work as an assistant mortician despite her abusive creep of a boss — at least until the job gets a little too lively.
The jump scares are predictable and the serious lines and jokes fall flat.
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Day of the Dead’s premiere tries to find the right mix of melodrama, humor, sex and gore that makes for good horror, but it fails on almost all counts. The jump scares are predictable and the serious lines and jokes fall flat thanks to almost universally wooden delivery by the unimpressive cast. The zombie makeup does look great and there is a sort of schlocky joy to some of the scenes, like a lawnmower chase through the town’s cemetery that results in gouts of blood splattering across the tombstones and a funeral that goes very wrong. Unfortunately, those sequences aren’t enough to breathe life into the otherwise plodding and predictable narrative.
Syfy is notorious for producing low-budget shows and cancelling them after one season, and Day of the Dead seems destined for that same fate. Thin, unlikeable characters work fine for a horror movie, but it’s a lot harder to want to stick with them for 10 episodes. There might be some life in the series if it ramps up the goofy action, but based on...
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