Brilliant brilliant brilliant. I'm so glad the second series was better than the first. The finale was poignant and beautifully done, but I do feel like it was let down by Maxine Martin. The resolution to that plot wasn't satisfying for me, so it felt disruptive to everything else around it. But all the scenes with Amy and Philip were fantastic to watch. I hope it gets picked up for series three and I really hope Amy comes back. Need time to process all that went on but need a third series or else BBC!! Was willing Amy's hand through the grave thou... and wondered if that was Kieran having tremors. Wonderful script, acting and all..best thing on the telly box.

This show is one of the best I've seen in a very long time. The cast are amazing, the writing is complex, but not overly so, and, despite the series featuring zombies, it's very easy to relate to in real life. Issues like discrimination are tackled in an eye-opening way without being preachy. There's representation for the queer community, though again, the queer characters are not solely defined by their sexuality, nor does their characterisation hinge on it. The topics of depression, anxiety, self- worth, self-acceptance, and PTSD are explored in a meaningful and honest way. Add to that the drama of families regaining someone they'd lost and grieved for and you've got gold. I watched the entire series in just over a day and I'm dying for a third one. I can only hope that we've not seen the last of this world as it has so much to offer.

This is quite simply one of the best TV shows ever. This show is marvelously and tightly plotted, but it is not about "zombies". The plot is about relationships - the relationship between Rick and Ren that led to the implosion of Ren's family and a direct line to his sister's involvement in the HVF. In the third episode of the first season, the conversation between Ren and his mom in the cave made me sob. Mascara streaks and pausing the show for twenty minutes. "I would love you if you came back as a goldfish." As tight as the story is, the suspense in season two is just as fun as the plot begins to blossom.Some of the plot lines: the ideas of love and life, acceptance, sexuality, suicide, government policies, slang and labels, popularity and what we will do to fit in versus individuality, equal rights, our idea of sickness and disease, familial relationships and roles, parents' dreams and ideas for their children, history and the way it is taught in the formal education system, religion and the belief systems that are insidious in small villages, radicalism in many forms, self-delusions,alternative medicine, immigration issues. It is all amazingly well captured in this little drama.I have NEVER given a TV show a 10 before and I hope that I do get to see another 10 star show in my lifetime. This show is much better than Walking Dead (which I also love). Re-integration instead of apocalypse. You can't look away or you will miss the relationships between all the people in the storyline. Watch it more than once to catch all the amazing s*** in the background. I love this show.

Familiar ground, some of which was covered years ago in THEY CAME BACK (a movie that seemed genuinely GENUINE at the time). IN THE FLESH takes the basic premise and runs with it- though not always successfully. Essentially a mix of THEY CAME BACK and any one of the dozen or so Vampire series that have saturated screens both Big and Small for the past decade or so, IN THE FLESH nonetheless sometimes manages to be intriguing and poignant. The Institutionalization of The Rotters makes for some interesting (if not exactly always plausible) situations. (To be fair, we're talking about a Zombie teleshow. Whaddaya want, Billy Shakespeare...?) For Zombie completists, IN THE FLESH is worth the time and effort, but, for non-Zombieists, it might NOT be.