All of Us Are Dead: A Zombie Masterpiece in 12 Episodes

Screen Rant is making the case that All of Us Are Dead is one of Netflix's best horror shows, and the pitch is simple: Train to Busan meets The Walking Dead. The comparison fits. The series drops a group of South Korean high school students into a zombie apocalypse, then treats them like people before treating them like casualties.

The show's characters start as familiar archetypes: the class president, the reformed delinquent, the rich kid. Screen Rant notes that the series starts picking them off just as you get to know what's under the surface. Because this isn't a comedy like The Fall of the House of Usher, the deaths are allowed to land.

Screen Rant also credits the longer runtime with giving the adults room to breathe, including a science teacher and a detective, while the two leads get time to grow. Compared with Alice in Borderland, All of Us Are Dead is more patient before the gore starts. Screen Rant argues that patience makes the story sadder and more intense on a rewatch.

The show was popular enough to earn a second season. But Screen Rant reports that scheduling conflicts have pushed it years past the first season's release. By the time new episodes arrive, the characters will be in a different life stage. So watch the original 12 episodes now, before the gap becomes a spoiler.

• All of Us Are Dead
• Netflix
• South Korean TV
• The Walking Dead
• Train to Busan
• Zombie