{"id":68966,"date":"2015-11-05T10:25:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T10:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/?p=68966"},"modified":"2015-12-23T10:40:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T10:40:24","slug":"top-10-best-zombie-tv-series-10th-7th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/?p=68966","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Best Zombie TV Series 10th-7th"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>10. High school of The Dead (2010)<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-68976 size-medium\" title=\"Rei-Saya-Saeko - Highschool of the Dead\" src=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HIGHSCHOOL-OF-THE-DEAD-1-22-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Rei-Saya-Saeko from Highschool of the Dead\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HIGHSCHOOL-OF-THE-DEAD-1-22-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HIGHSCHOOL-OF-THE-DEAD-1-22-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HIGHSCHOOL-OF-THE-DEAD-1-22-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HIGHSCHOOL-OF-THE-DEAD-1-22-510x287.jpg 510w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HIGHSCHOOL-OF-THE-DEAD-1-22.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"formatted-entry-p\">Based on the manga <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicvine.com\/highschool-of-the-dead\/4050-34616\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gakuen Mokushiroku Haisuk\u016bru obu za Deddo<\/a> written by Daiskue Sato and drawn by Shoji Sato, High school of the Dead is a<strong> 12 episode long anime<\/strong>. With a title meant to attract more than zombie fans but Western fans, this show focuses on a <strong>group of high school students<\/strong> who, in only a couple of hours, <strong>find themselves in the middle of a zombie crisis<\/strong> in present day Japan.<\/p>\n<p>As they try to fight the zombies and escape from getting killed or transformed into monsters themselves, the teens must also face a decaying society returning back to its animalistic instincts and feudal rules.<\/p>\n<h3>Them<\/h3>\n<p>Nothing can be as disturbing as seeing the ones you once knew and maybe <strong>loved being transformed into mindless cruel creatures<\/strong>. This aspect was used in creating the zombies from High school of the Dead. Referred to as \u201cthem\u201d, these zombies are the cadaveric versions of those who were once humans.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-68981 size-medium\" title=\"Zombies\" src=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HIGHSCHOOL-OF-THE-DEAD-zombies-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"zombie attack\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HIGHSCHOOL-OF-THE-DEAD-zombies-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HIGHSCHOOL-OF-THE-DEAD-zombies-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HIGHSCHOOL-OF-THE-DEAD-zombies-510x287.jpg 510w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HIGHSCHOOL-OF-THE-DEAD-zombies.jpg 545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>While they have lost any of the normal intellectual abilities, they have <strong>developed a sort of zombie modified version of them<\/strong>, showing to be able to identify whoever is infected, so that they will not attack their own and can pass their own limits, not being able to feel pain. Yet, they are more likely to die again from fire than normal humans.<\/p>\n<h3>Controversy<\/h3>\n<p>If you are not a diehard anime fan or a fan in general, let us tell you that no matter how unpopular or popular an anime is, there will <strong>always be all sorts of controversies around it<\/strong>. When it comes to High school of the Dead, there is no exception. With claims that it is too inappropriate due to its sexual content or that it is no different from any other zombie creation, the show hot a few thumbs down. Yet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/preview-guide\/2013\/the-fall-anime\/carlo\" target=\"_blank\">Carlo Santos<\/a> did point out the best feature \u201c<em>Other recent zombie works in Western entertainment have tried to play it ironic, or postmodernist, or just plain silly, but this one goes for straight-up horror\u2014and pulls it off admirably<\/em>\u201d and in a horror series with zombies this is what matters the most.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"High School of the Dead Trailer\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RVQPds7Qyss?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>9. The Returned (2015)<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-68996 size-medium\" title=\"The Returned cast\" src=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/returned2-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"zombie tv series\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/returned2-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/returned2-250x162.jpg 250w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/returned2-510x331.jpg 510w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/returned2.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"formatted-entry-p\">Can you imagine living in a small boring town, where the most dramatic thing that could happen is for the hosting baseball team to lose a match while the entire team\u2019s family members are watching? What it would be like that, out of the blue, <strong>people who had died some time ago, came back to life<\/strong> with no memories other than the ones they had before their departure.<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>daughter<\/strong> killed in a bus accident <strong>returns to her parents after 4 years <\/strong>since her death. A man seeks her fianc\u00e9e who moved on after he disappeared from her life. Meanwhile, another woman finds herself in her husband\u2019s home, only 30 years later. With all the returned people, the<strong> citizens\u2019 dull lives get all messed up<\/strong> and tangled, especially with secrets emerging to surface. This series starring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1204760\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Alejandro<\/a>, Agnes Bruckner, India Ennenga, Sandrine Holt, Sophie Lowe and Mar Pellegrino was cancelled after just one season. But this does not mean you can not give it a try.<\/p>\n<h3>The Originals<\/h3>\n<p>You may think that such a TV series is completely original because it is just\u2026 not American. And that exactly is the point and maybe the reason why it <strong>failed with the American public<\/strong>. It is just a remake of a French supernatural show, <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Les_Revenants_(s%C3%A9rie_t%C3%A9l%C3%A9vis%C3%A9e)\" target=\"_blank\">Les Revenants<\/a>. On the small screen since 2013 and returning this year with its second season, <strong>Les Revenants is not that different<\/strong> from its baby brother show.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-69001 size-medium\" title=\"Movie screenshot - Victor\" src=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Returned-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"zombie tv series, returned\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Returned-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Returned-250x136.jpg 250w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Returned-510x277.jpg 510w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Returned.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Following the lives after death of a teenager, victim of a road crash accident, a man who killed himself before his own wedding, a murdered child seeking redemption from his \u201cfairy\u201d and a sadistic serial killer, but also their families,<strong> the show focuses on the \u201czombies\u201d<\/strong> struggle to fit in and to recover their lives, while being marked by the supernatural.<\/p>\n<h3>The Rival<\/h3>\n<p>More like predecessor, the 2014 ABC drama, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2647586\/\" target=\"_blank\">Resurrection<\/a>, <strong>follows the same pattern<\/strong> as the The Returned duo \u2013 in Arcadia, Missouri, the <strong>residents find themselves visited by their beloved ones<\/strong>, long dead. Starting with a 8 year old boy, Jacob, found in a rice field in China, immigration agent Martin Bellamy is the one to bring him home and to discover that the<strong> child has been dead for 32 years<\/strong> and that his parents are already in their 60s.<\/p>\n<p>Along the boy, another man returns to his family, who struggles to introduce him back into the society norms. Yet, <strong>Jacob is not as well received as his parents<\/strong> are still reluctant to the news, especially since an actual body is still inside the 32 year old tomb. Questions are being put and even the resurrected wonder how they can be alive and well when they have their own corpses in front of them.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE RETURNED Season 1 TRAILER | US Remake\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jVtutnJxJ1A?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>8. Helix (2014 \u2013 2015)<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-69011 size-medium\" title=\"Helix TV Show cast\" src=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/helix_tv_show_cast-wallpaper-1152x864-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"helix cast\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/helix_tv_show_cast-wallpaper-1152x864-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/helix_tv_show_cast-wallpaper-1152x864-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/helix_tv_show_cast-wallpaper-1152x864-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/helix_tv_show_cast-wallpaper-1152x864-510x383.jpg 510w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/helix_tv_show_cast-wallpaper-1152x864.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"formatted-entry-p\">Reaching the science fiction genre, we find Helix, a thriller developed by Ronald D. Moore \u2013 also known for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0407362\/\" target=\"_blank\">Battlestar Galactica<\/a>. The story is following a team of researchers who <strong>travel to an isolated research area<\/strong> in Antarctica, where they can <strong>investigate a mysterious virus outbreak<\/strong>. As they attempt to find a cure or at least to put the virus in quarantine, the team is slowly sabotaged and in danger.<\/p>\n<p>Realizing that the virus might be actually a weapon against the human kind, the <strong>scientists must fight for everybody\u2019s lives<\/strong>, especially their own, to catch the traitor and to discover his secret. The second season is set an year later on the island St. Germaine. Starring in the main roles we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001004\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Campbell<\/a> as Dr. Alan Farragut, Hiroyuki Sanada as Dr. Hiroshi Hatake, Kyra Zaggorsky as Dr. Julia Walker and Mark Ghanime as Maior Sergio Balleseros.<\/p>\n<h3>Narvik and Vector<\/h3>\n<p>The <strong>virus responsible for all the havoc<\/strong> in Helix is called Narvix and is of three types: A and C \u2013 the ones that kill and B \u2013 the one that transforms. That being said, you can already correctly assume that <strong>Narvik B is behind the zombification<\/strong> of our characters. Once infected, either through mouth-to-mouth contact of through bodily fluids, the humans become zombie like creatures called Vectors.<\/p>\n<div id=\"quote_shortcode\" class=\"sixtop-post-quote post-quote-right\" >\n<div class=\"quote-sign-box hidden-on-desktop\"><\/div>\n<p>        &ldquo; The virus responsible for all the havoc &rdquo;<\/p>\n<div id=\"quote_shortcode_after\">\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Reduced to their primal instincts and lacking any sort of consciousness, Vectors are though very agile and strong and in possession of a <strong>special ability which allows them to sense<\/strong> whether another person is human, Vector or something else. Did we mention they usually travel in packs?<\/p>\n<h3>Cancellation<\/h3>\n<p>This spring, it was announced that after its second season, <strong>Helix will not return on the small screen<\/strong>. Be it the not so impressive second season, lack of promotion, the evil forces of the television underworld or other similar issues, nothing saved it from being axed. But we will always have the first season full of realism, <strong>mystery that keeps you at the edge of your seat<\/strong> and an increasing feeling of dread and fear.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Helix - Trailer\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ojbf0NmK0Eo?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>7. Dead Set (2008)<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-69031 size-medium\" title=\"The zombie Big Brother\" src=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/deadset1-300x274.jpg\" alt=\"zombie tv series, dead set\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/deadset1-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/deadset1-250x229.jpg 250w, https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/deadset1.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"formatted-entry-p\">Here comes a British mini series with only 5 episodes. Who would have thought that you can mix a zombie show with the father of reality shows \u2013 Big Brother? In Dead Set <strong>we have a group of <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_Brother_(franchise)\" target=\"_blank\">Big Brother<\/a><strong> contestants<\/strong>, who, on the night of the eviction, a zombie outbreak happens. The contestants are somehow protected as they <strong>remain stuck in the very well guarded Big Brother house<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet while they have no worries and are not in fear of being attacked by zombies, they are still more <strong>isolated from the outside world than ever<\/strong>. With the rest of the population being slowly butchered and transformed, they must find their own ways of surviving and providing food.<\/p>\n<h3>New approach<\/h3>\n<p>Out of all these ideas one can find in the media, having a <strong>reality show based zombie adaptation<\/strong> is something that <strong>no one could have thought<\/strong> about nor that someone would ever try again. To add to its originality, Dead Set\u2019s Big Brother contestants are actually<strong> real life former Big Brother contestants<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1785575\/?ref_=tt_cl_t1\" target=\"_blank\">Jaime Winston<\/a> as Kelly Povell, Riz Ahmend as Riq Rahman, Adam deacon as Space, Andy Nyman as Patrick Goad, Warren Brown as Marky, Liz May Brice as Alex Brynson, Shelley Conn as Claire Oberon and many others. We also have <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Davina_McCall\" target=\"_blank\">Davina McCall <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marcus_Bentley\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus Bentley<\/a>\u2026 being themselves as the Big Brother presenter and the Big Brother narrator.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related-article_box related-article-right\">\n<div class=\"related-art-title\">Related<\/div>\n<div id=\"thumbnail_box\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/6toplists.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/supernataruvalv12.jpg);\"><a href=http:\/\/6toplists.com\/top-10-best-supernatural-movies\/ class=\"related_a\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"thumbnail_box_top\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"thumbnail_box_bottom\">\n<div id=\"thumbnail_box_bottom_text\"><span style=\"color: white;\">Read article: <\/span><br \/><span class=\"related_span\" >Top 10 Best Supernatural Movies<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Reception<\/h3>\n<p>Perceived as the <strong>best zombie flick of the decade<\/strong>, both Dead Set and its viewers managed to surprise each other, the show by being surprisingly good and the audience by being <strong>very open minded about this new concept<\/strong>. Though, there have been critics who complained about various issues, including the change from slow zombies to fast ones.<\/p>\n<p>The co-creator Simon Pegg answered the criticism in The Guardian stating that \u201c<em>Even George Romero, the godfather of zombies, bent the rules from time to time. Witness the very first zombie in Night of the Living Dead, [..] I know you saw these scenes. You know you saw these scenes. And you also know that if this were a trial, this would be the moment where you splutter in the witness box and admit you&#8217;re completely wrong.<\/em>\u201d And to show that it was indeed a smart move, Dead Set got a nomination for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bafta.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">BAFTA<\/a> for \u201cBest Drama Serial\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dead Set -Trailer (2008)\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R7bUbpt5Xb0?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/top-10-best-zombie-tv-series\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"prev\" >\n<div id=\"prev_link\" >Introduction<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/top-10-best-zombie-tv-series-6th-4th\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"next\" >\n<div id=\"next_link\" >6th-4th place<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":69051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68966"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69056,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68966\/revisions\/69056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}