iZombie: Dead Rat, Live Rat, Brown Rat, White Rat

"Now, if you wouldn't mind feeling around my lobsters for a bit..."

So, Liv made a zombie in a boat while in a spot of bother, if you remember. Well, said zombie thug is duly run over by some stoned kids, consumed with guilt in an I Know What You Did Last Summer sort of way. Said kids start turning on each other, murders happen, said zombie is of course not actually dead, and we're getting very close to the finale. Good stuff.

Oh, and "The Ass Hats" is a superb name for a band.

Anyway, Ravi's cured zombie rat dies, which is a bit of a bummer. Peyton and Ravi continue to get on well with, allegedly, lots of sex. Liv, with her stoner brain, er, gets stoned. The case is solved but threads are left unresolved as we're about to start the season finale. Oh, and Blaine has Major, whose sleuthing has got him into trouble. We're nearly done now. This is a superb debut season.

iZombie: Mr. Berserk

"Liv, you're off the case..."

At last the Max Rager stuff moves centre stage as a journalist investigating the drink's propensity to cause violence is murdered. Liv's ingestion of her brain makes her tenacious and alcoholic, which is not inconvenient. It's more good telly.

In other conspiracy news, Suzuki is covering for Blaine; he knows where his brains are coming from. And the fallout from Lowell's death continues as the truth has to be hidden. That's three separate conspiracies. Paranoid much? You really tend to sympathise with Major.

Especially when Clive comes close to sectioning him. It's a very arc-heavy episode.

Major checks himself into hospital as Liv drinks and investigates. It's clear Max Rager are guilty but it all gets rather dangerous, insidious and exciting as Liv ends up having to go into full-on zombie mode to avoid being murdered. Unfortunately her prospective killer is now a zombie, and Max Rager are still uncaught. 

It's getting exciting and the season finale is still in sight in the least story-of-the-week episode yet, but iZombie is still as awesome as ever.