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87% Avg. Tomatometer 28 Reviews 62% Avg. Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings Set in the "Z Nation" universe, this series follows a crack team of special forces as it fights for hope in the darkest...
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Watch Black Summer — Season 1 with a subscription on Netflix. Black Summer has enough undead carnage and a sinewy pace to please zombie fans, but the series suffers from scant...
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By Matt Fowler
Updated: Jun 17, 2021 8:35 pm
Posted: Jun 17, 2021 8:22 pm
Black Summer: Season 2 arrives Thursday, June 17 on Netflix.
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While the first season followed people a week or so into the zombie apocalypse (aka the part Rick Grimes slept through), Season 2 is free-for-all carnage. While many zombie projects postulate that it'll be a few years before humans start truly turning on each other -- you know, the true blue "the real monsters are us" theme -- Black Summer asserts, quite brutally, that this will happen almost immediately out of the gate. Mere months after Season 1, now in the dead of an unyielding winter, survivors are at each other's throats. Gangs and factions have been formed, and those roaming the snowy wasteland are killing each other over supply drops coming from a mystery plane - drops that feel humane in nature but in reality are causing those on the ground to go to war with each other.
Cast members Jaime King, Justin Chu Cary, and Christine Lee return as Season 1 survivors Rose, "Spears," and Sun (plus, maybe one more character surprise). Joining the cast as a full member, having had only a few scenes in Season 1, is Zoe Marlett's Anna, Rose's daughter. Yes, there's something to be said about Season 1's ending and its near-perfect ambiguity. Black Summer getting a Season 2 is a wild and wonderful thing but if Season 1 had been the end for the show, it would have been hauntingly excellent. Because we didn't know if Rose was hallucinating or not. Was Anna real or had Rose totally lost it as she had earlier in the season?
The use of impeccably staged one-shots fills you with dread
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With Season 2, we get a full answer. It was Anna. But with the shuttering of that "up for interpretation" finale comes a sharp, wonderful look at Rose and Anna's new apocalyptic dynamic and the sinister sourness of Anna having to grow up in this world. Anna is growing up tremendously "not okay." She is slowly being turned into a monster by a mother who is trying her best to absorb all of the sin for both of them. As they roam from gruesome scenes to sketchy shelters, using a card game to silently communicate with each other, you'd think they were a rock-solid mother-daughter duo, ready to kick ass and meet all obstacles on their way to a rumored air strip containing an escape plane. But they're fundamentally broken, both individually and as a unit.
Black Summer can be easily lauded for its action, as it's fierce and unrelenting. The use of impeccably staged one-shots fills you with dread, inserting you into the panicked frenzies that make your heart race. But, as it showed with Season 1, the series is also incredible with calm. Whether it's an episode like "White Horse" that's mostly dialogue or moments featuring characters creeping around and observing (the Ghosts segment from the episode "Lodge" is phenomenal), Black Summer is able to coat you with dread from any angle. It's also still as shocking and wickedly contemptuous as ever, never being precious with any of its characters. We learned this back in Season 1, anyone can be taken off the board quickly no matter how many episodes we've been following them. It really does create an environment where you feel like anything can happen and no one's safe. Which is exactly what you want from zombie horror.
Black Summer returns with a season just as brutal and thrilling as its first run. Now in the midst of a cold and cruel winter, the characters war with each other for survival as directors John Hyams and Abram Cox serve up well-crafted carnage. Because of the minisodes format, along with a few timeline shuffles, it takes two or three episodes before...
Apr 11, 2019 · Netflix's Black Summer is a bare-bones zombie survival story that makes you feel like you're in the chaos and carnage. Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 15, 2019
Black Summer is technically a prequel to the brilliant Z-Nation, but in spirit it's closer to the action and horror of the first season of Walking Dead than to the comedic, over-the-top spirit of Z-Nation.
Black Summer: Created by John Hyams, Karl Schaefer. With Jaime King, Justin Chu Cary, Christine Lee, Zoe Marlett. In the dark, early days of a zombie apocalypse, complete strangers band together to find the strength they need to survive and get back to loved ones.
Apr 12, 2019 · This a spoiler-free review for all 8 episodes of Black Summer, which premieres Thursday, April 11 on Netflix.
