Extra points for the ending...

i can forgive the awful, awful camera work for the great concept and writing. one of the better zombie works of the decade.

A good zombie series that deteriorates toward the end with some exaggerated gore. Plenty of points for humor especially early on, tad too much screaming and camera waving though.

Too much use of the shaky camera sinks this one a bit. Great concept merged with B-movie gore makes for an entertaining time.

Quite an intelligent zombie movie. Big brother 28 days later.

Masses of gore, humor (like shaun of the dead) but also maintaining the stomach-feeling and sick moments that make a horror movie/series stand out.

Running zombies aside, this is probably the best zombie output in recent years. It presents an abundance of claustrophobic scenes and oozes of panic and despair; just as a good zombie movie should. In best Romero style it is a satire over contemporary society and although the satire can get a bit too obvious, it works really well at times (ex: television producer harvesting dead body of 'Big Brother' contestant...). The level of gore is delightfully high and the ending is brilliant.

Satirical yet at times genuinely creepy, the social commentary is exactly what you'd expect from Charlie Brooker (and indeed strongly reflects Romero's Dawn of the Dead: replacing consumerism with insta-fame reality TV). As so often with zombie flicks the conclusion is a bit of a letdown, but considering the oversaturation of the 'undead' genre these past few years and the fact Shaun of the Dead is unlikely ever to be topped, it's praise enough that I still enjoyed this as much as I did.

Yeah not bad as a zombie series. Nice n' gory too!

Pretty good quality for a tv miniseries, so long as the gore and language don't bother you. Some of the zombie encounters felt a little repetitive though - many throat-bites and lots of hands slamming against doors. Also, I felt like too many victims became zombies when really they should have just been eaten, but hey, maybe that's just what I'm used to seeing. This one earned my respect over the ending because it's one that most zombie movies I've seen haven't had the guts to do. Get it? Guts?

If you can bear the shaky camera and the constant close-ups, definitely worth the watch. Yes, the characters make some mind-numbing decisions, but at least the director paints a good picture showing they a dull-witted to begin with.

Passes the time.

What a terrible idea. Zombie movies suck, Big Brother sucks, jump scenes are retarded. Then throw in some shaky camera work, and you get everything that's wrong with modern horror movies. If you liked this mini-series, kill yourself.

Good zombie flick, sometimes fun characters. The slow (or fast) decline into apocalypse is cool although it's been done better (Dawn of the Dead 2004) but any segment like that is cool when it's well done. The concept is interesting enough and well executed and all in all this is good zombie flick.

Really fun. A couple of plot elements towards the end weren't great, but god damn, what an ending.

Very Nice Zombie Apocalypse Movie

Delightfully offensive and hilarious zombie mini-series. There are, annoyingly, running zombies and a thread of misandry throughout...but fuck that, this is too much fun! From the abusive producer and moronic housemates to the kick-arse zombie killing chicks, the characters are a blast. There's nothing timid about the dialogue - rapid-fire and incisive as it slams our vapid reality TV culture between gushes of blood and viscera. Favourite line - 'It smells of fingering in here'

it started good but I am yet to see a zombie film in which the characters act rational X(

A few cheap thrills, a few retarded comedy aspects, but I guess this genre can't really do without. Great overall, but should have ended when the door was opened for Kelly. Everything afterwards was unneccessary and not as powerful as everyone else seems to think.

Falls a bit flat. You expect so much of Brooker because of his incisive commentary on other people's mistakes, but in the end he produced what is more or less a more verbose Dawn of the Dead.

Terrifically done. A zombie piece that, whilst having "running" zombies, is faithful to the Romero model of actually being a social commentary. With gore. Lots of gore. And Davina McCall getting her throat eat. Nice.

Love it love it love. Dark, and horrible, even with the "fast" zombies. Davina turning into an undead hose-beast a highlight amongst many. Also, Jamie Winstone really is her fathers fakking dourt-aah, the acting minx.

I absolutely loved everything about Dead Set, and after many repeated viewings it has solidified itself as my #1 favorite zombie production. Bleak, haunting, pulse-pounding and disturbingly funny. Having a zombie outbreak during a Big Brother episode is a brilliant concept. And that ending! Rarely have I felt such terror at seeing a group of zombies break into a previously safe location. Charlie Brooker is the mán.

The first and last episodes are some of the best zombie media around, inheriting the mantle of social commentary from Romero. Yet the bulk of the production falls into the cliche pitfalls that affect the genre; namely, people making really stupid decisions. Brooker's writing keeps things flowing with utter derision for the characters and some self-referential satire, but to be honest I was expecting more from him in terms of hacking away at the boundaries of entertainment. Go watch Screenwipe.

Best zombie series/movie/whatever in years. Electric pace, bitingly blunt (but at least not clumsily stupid) satire and without a doubt one of THE best endings ever within the zombie niche. The dread, the macabre killings and the sense that there is no way out. It's claustrophobic and fatalistic like the ending of "Dawn of the Dead". And perhaps even better? It loses a bit of steam midways, but the first and final episodes more than make up for it. This is modern zombie art.

Crazyily sick! [Seriously, i don't have much to say about this. Probably good for people who like slasher/zombie movies; for someone like me who doesn't have any preference it's just very mediocre and definitely lacking in humor - good beginning, takes itself much too serious later on, imho]

Starts off being pretty funny but quickly degrades into a by the numbers zombie flick once it's hook runs out. Comparatively Shaun of the Dead manages to thoroughly entertain the entire time without becoming tiresomely contrived.