In The Flesh, S1 Ep2

In The Flesh, S1 Ep2

Hi everybody, Mary here.

So, as #NineDaysOfInTheFlesh keeps going around, here is the review for the second episode in the first series of In The Flesh. So, without any further ado, let's get started !

"It's a ceremony about the victims of the Rising. The people whose brains you ate, basically."

     A ceremony is organised in this episode to celebrate the sacrifice of the people who died while fighting untreated PDS sufferers. However, the family didn't want to tell Kieren as it could be triggering for him. Furthermore, Rick is coming back home as a PDS sufferer as well, and he needs to be rehabilitated in his family (especially by his dad who's in the HVF), causing a perplexed state in the city. If his dad is so untolerant about the PDS sufferers, why does he expect everybody else to do an exception for his son ? He didn't even show affection towards his son when he came back ! (Some for Kieren. Maybe it is still contagious...). Now, we can ask ourselves of Ric is going to be accepted in the long term... (his soldier status being the only reason of his coming-back being good for now)

"Hey, he's a rotter !

- He's a rotter !

- Get away, you dirty rotter !

- He's a rotter !"

     We also meet in this episode another PDS sufferer, a young woman who goes by the name of Amy. Unlike Kieren, she is more outgoing and proud of her new situation, flaunts her "natural looks" all around her, and even proposes to Kieren to go to the pub to meet Rick, even if he knows that this pratically the new HQ for the HFV. She even convinces him to have some fun while going to the local fair, but he is recognised and chased away by the crowd of untolerant, unacceptant humans. Anyway, Kieren tries really hard to regain his former life, but he knows that he can't do that anymore. Furthermore, when we learn that he actually had killed himself, I was glad to know that Amy was there to hug him and comfort him as much as she could.

"You get bitten, you come straight back. In all the films.

- I know. But this isn't a film."

     In the end of the episode, the HVF goes on a hunt in the forest, only to discover two untreated PDS sufferers (supposedly a dad and his daughter, him being very caring of her, something that we never see in a zombie movie, TV show or book). Even Rick, who is a PDS sufferer as well, wants to kill them just to be accepted by the local community and even more by his dad. He has an argument with Kieren in the van, and he wants to look normal SO BAD that he drinks even if he knows that he can't to it anymore (he just vomited a sort of black liquid, which is terrifying). It's only thanks to Kieren's intervention that the two untreated people were sent to the hospital instead of being killed. Maybe a sign of redemption from Rick who has to accept himself as who he is now ?

Overall impression : Great episode, once again. A lot is learnt about acceptance and the stigma, again, of being different in a totally indifferent world.

Okay, that's it for today, I hope that you enjoyed this post and I'll see you very soon with another one, I hope !

And as usual, our last word : KIDNEYS !