Review: 'Revival' hailed as a poignant and offbeat zombie series

Revival review – step up, Walking Dead fans! This is the most moving zombie show ever

The undead are climbing out of their graves all over town, so gore levels are high – but this noirish miniseries sets itself apart by being delightfully offbeat and genuinely poignant A teenage girl is pale, withdrawn and seems not to be fully in or of this world. Could she be … a zombie? “She just likes the Cure,” weary police officer Dana Cypress (Wynonna Earp’s Melanie Scrofano) assures the anxious mother at the station. It’s good to get the mandatory goth joke out of the way early in an u...

By Lucy Mangan