In the sixteenth episode of the second season of\u00c2\u00a0iZombie<\/i>, I CONTINUE TO BE UNABLE TO DEAL WITH THIS SHOW. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch\u00c2\u00a0iZombie<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trigger Warning: For talk of sex work and bias against sex work\/strippers.<\/b><\/p>\n
This show is full of secrets, and now that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re finally coming to light, everything is a horrible, horrible mess. Maybe the ultimate theme of\u00c2\u00a0iZombie<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0is that we should always tell the truth? MAYBE.<\/p>\n
Blaine<\/b><\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll start with the least shocking element to this episode, which is a huge thing to say because this episode just escalated the plot INTO ANOTHER UNIVERSE. Plus, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like I could have ever anticipated or guessed what Ravi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s second cure would do to Blaine. HIS MEMORY IS GONE. COMPLETELY. And it started slow, then declined to the point where\u00c2\u00a0all<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0his memory was gone. How? How does that even happen? Can you fix it? Because Ravi is gonna have to come up with a fix soon or Don E. and Chief will ruin Blaine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plan to lay low. My god, THERE IS TOTALLY GOING TO BE ANOTHER SHOWDOWN BETWEEN MR. BOSS AND BLAINE AND IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122LL BE THEIR FAULT.<\/p>\n
This is bad. SO SO SO BAD. Bad for Peyton, too, since her case relies on Blaine, who can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember anything at all! Granted, she got a huge victory thanks to Liv, but oh my god, this show just pulled the rug out from everything\u00c2\u00a0again<\/i>.<\/p>\n
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so fun, I swear.<\/p>\n
Pour Some Sugar, Zombie<\/b><\/p>\n
I\u00c2\u00a0think\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>the writers wanted to poke fun at stripper culture, and in the early scenes, it felt clear that the show was criticizing men and how gross they can be. But in the latter half of the episode, I saw the focus as shifting to strippers themselves, and the narrative came across as a little too cruel for my tastes. Plus, this is another instance of the show giving a black woman a negative characterization, so it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s getting kind of grating to see this pop up again and again. As for the story itself, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s some humor derived from the setting, such as Liv giving Peyton a lap dance and being\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, not that great at it. But as for all the side characters, they exist here for comedic effect for the most part. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re supposed to laugh at how catty and shallow they are. (Though I did like that nod to the fact that a lot of women choose to pay off college debt. THANKS, AMERICAN COLLEGE SYSTEM.)<\/p>\n
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not my favorite zombie brain gimmick of the show, but I might also be harsher on it because everything\u00c2\u00a0else\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>is just so much better in comparison.<\/p>\n
Love and Truth<\/b><\/p>\n
Actually, maybe this show really\u00c2\u00a0is<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0about honesty. So much of what drives the drama and suspense in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pour Some Sugar, Zombie\u00e2\u20ac\u009d comes from the fact that Drake and Major are hiding huge secrets from other people, though in a neat twist, one is terrible while the other is ironically positive.<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll start with Liv, who spends most of the episode wondering why she ever trusted Drake. From her perspective, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s obvious that Drake was a criminal and actively lying to her about who he was. (I mean, technically, he was, but OH GOD.) So, as she navigates the messy world that comes with the case she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on, all she sees is how love and disloyalty go hand in hand. Love makes you do na\u00c3\u00afve things. It makes you betray your friends. It gives you poor judgment. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s confirmation bias: everything she sees supports her idea that Drake was not worth the time she gave him.<\/p>\n
EXCEPT SURPRISE, HE WAS AN UNDERCOVER COP AND YOU WERE WRONG LIV AND EVERYTHING IS HEARTBREAK AND SADNESS AND THIS SHOW REPEATEDLY LOVES TO RUIN ME.<\/p>\n
But come on, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0nothing<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0more earth-shattering than Ravi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plot line in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pour Some Sugar, Zombie.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll argue that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also the most loyal character in all of\u00c2\u00a0iZombie<\/i>, and the man has defended Major at his lowest points. As he slowly discovers Major\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s secret, you can see the (justified) resentment seep out of him, resulting in the teary-eyed anger we see at the end of the episode. Ravi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a natural investigator, too; he constantly takes in information, processes it, and spits out a conclusion. Therefore, all the little bits of hints towards Major\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0secret were always going to collate into the truth. I knew it was over as soon as Ravi spotted Minor in the paper and the dates Minor was found and gave away too coincidental.<\/p>\n
And perhaps Major will be relieved that someone knows the truth, that he can finally tell someone how Max Rager\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been blackmailing him. I could actually see that as a positive thing! But what of Dale Bozzio? She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s close to pinning everything on Major, too, and even if Ravi knows\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 god, this is a mess. OH, AND LET\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S ADD TO THAT THE FACT THAT MAJOR JUST TURNED BACK INTO A ZOMBIE.<\/p>\n
What an entertaining mess.<\/p>\n
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