All 71 Episodes Of The Walking Dead's Best Replacement Series Are Streaming Free Next Month

Every episode of The Walking Dead‘s best replacement show will be available to stream for free next month. The Walking Dead still casts a large shadow over the zombie genre, at least on television, with multiple spinoffs still running. If you’re making a zombie series, it’s always going to be compared to The Walking Dead.

Few shows have been able to hold up to the comparison. For all its faults, The Walking Dead has to be acknowledged for its longevity and expansive franchise of shows, comics, books, games, and more. Zombies may not hold the same place in the pop culture ecosystem without it, and that is including movies.

The success of The Walking Dead ensured other zombie shows got their chances to shine. iZombie, for instance, may have been relegated to the panels of the DC comic books it was born in without it, but in 2015, The CW premiered an adaptation of Chris Roberson and Michael Allred’s series.

The show lasted five seasons, and stars Rose McIver as Olivia “Liv” Moore. Liv was once a Seattle doctor, but after being turned into a zombie, she ends her career and abandons her old life. In this world, zombies retain their humanity as long as they periodically devour someone’s brains.

To stave off her primitive side, Liv begins eating brains of people at the morgue, which gives her flashbacks into their lives, a highly useful skill when she realizes he can help a local police detective solve murders with her knowledge. It’s a smart and fun horror comedy procedural mashup, and one of the handful of zombie shows that you can compare comfortably to The Walking Dead.

iZombie Was The Closest Zombie Series To The Walking Dead’s Level

iZombie lasted much longer than other, similar zombie shows, with 71 episodes over five seasons and a planned final season that successfully wound down the storyline. It’s a fully realized series, with carefully crafted procedural mysteries that build to something bigger over each season.

The unique aspects of the zombies in iZombie make it a different watch from other zombie fare. iZombie treats zombies a little like True Blood treats vampires, with the mythical creatures deciding that they will have to exist in a world alongside humans, even while they prey on them.

The best part of The Walking Dead was the characters. Even as storylines repeated themselves, you could count on characters growing and changing in satisfying ways every season. The same goes for iZombie, where Liv has to constantly decide what she wants for her zombified life, and whether becoming human again is something that she sees for herself.

iZombie Is A Made-For-Binging Zombie Series

iZombie will soon be available on Pluto, the free streaming TV service, meaning you can binge-watch all 71 episodes if interested. It’s a series that’s made for binging, with relatively short, 42-minute episodes, and storylines that move quickly, but with purpose. It’s a show you’ll find yourself getting through before you know it.

iZombie Seasons
Season	Episodes
1	13
2	19
3	13
4	13
5	13

The series is quick to set up its conceit, and the police procedural elements of each episode are reminiscent of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, making for an easy watch that never gets too upsetting in the same way The Walking Dead can. iZombie was criminally underseen when it came out, but now it’s been given the chance to capture the audience it should have always had.