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Zombies of Black Summer

TVUndead2010 to today

Black Summer follows a mother searching for her daughter across North America during a zombie apocalypse. Characters who die, including those killed by other people, reanimate. The New York Times called it formally daring.12

Battle it
First appeared
2019
Released 2019
Source work
Black Summer (2019)
Karl Schaefer and John Hyams (Netflix)
Age rating
TV-MA
Made in
USA
What causes it
Never explained
No cause is given.
How you become one
People who die reanimate, whatever killed them.

When did it first appear?

Ancient worldMiddle Ages1500 to 18991900 to 19671968 to 19992000 to 20092010 to today2019

Released 2019

field notes

What the sources say

1

A character shot dead by another survivor gets up as a zombie12

2

Stephen King praised it as existential hell in the suburbs12

3

The most-watched show on Netflix in the UK in April 201912

4

Ran for two seasons of eight episodes12

5

A prequel spin-off of Z Nation with none of its characters and a darker, less comic tone12

Sources

  1. Black Summer (TV series) - Wikipedia
  2. Black Summer - Rotten Tomatoes

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