CWYou want a TV show about a full-on zombie apocalypse? Turn on AMC's The Walking Dead. You want a smart, mature, funnier zombie TV show? That's when you turn on the CW's iZombie.
Helmed by Veronica Mars mastermind Rob Thomas, the DC Comics TV show started out its freshman season with a bang, and has kept the punches right on coming every episode until the season finale, airing tonight. Each hour has had equal parts heart, laughs, and—yes—braiiiiins. But no matter how much you've been enjoying season one so far, you are so not prepared for what's coming in tonight's epic season finale.
That's why E! News got Thomas on the line to dish on all things iZombie! Check out our full Q&A with one of our favorite showrunners below:
E! News: I can't believe it's already time for the iZombie finale, I feel like the show only just premiered!
Rob Thomas: I know, it's really flown by. And the fan response to the last episode could not have been any better. It was fun to watch my Twitter feed that night.
I'm definitely nervous for the finale since, thanks to his snooping around Meat Cute, Major (Robert Buckley) is now Blaine's (David Anders) captive—how dire is it going to get for Major?
That episode took everything right to the edge of the cliff and I don't want to give anything away, but you can say that Blaine is essentially freezing Major to death in hopes of getting his astronaut brains back.
Do you think fans are going to be shocked by how much they find that they enjoy how evil Blaine gets in the finale? Because I know I was. He's just diabolical.
He wasn't diabolical enough as he was murdering the teenage runaways?! [Laughs.]
He was bad before, but this is like a whole new level!
Yeah, getting to see him rhapsodize over how evil he is, I enjoyed that too. I was just so happy that I could finally put Blaine and Major onscreen together because they spent all year actually not doing any scenes together until the final two.
Their dynamic is amazing, so it was definitely worth the wait.
Good! I'm excited for everyone to see more of it in the finale.
The fight scene between Liv (Rose McIver) and Sebastian (Matthew MacCaull) was so cinematically awesome in last week's episode and in the finale, there's one scene that's full of amazing action—are you guys going to be ramping up the action and violence in season two?
I was pleased with how both of those came out, but the thing that we know in the iZombie writers room is that we'll never be able to "out-Walking Dead" The Walking Dead. Our bread and butter is always going to be this fun, funny tone that we're shooting more for Buffy rather than The Walking Dead where violence is a mainstay and you get to see that week after week. But that said, we want to pick our moments so that when we have a fight, it's a good one.
We know we're not going to get recognition or talked about for our zombie hordes or anything like that like Game of Thrones' big episode last week. They had thousands of zombies whereas for us to put one zombie in makeup really puts a dent in our budget. [Laughs.] So we know we can't outdo them on that; we have to be charming and funny and hopefully use our compelling plotlines to keep people coming back.
Well, there's one action scene in the finale that is going to blow people's minds…
Normally we shoot our episodes in eight days and we knew we wanted to have a big season finale, so we saved money all year wherever we could so we could have a ten-day shoot on the final episode. One of the reasons we could have all that blood and action is because we gave ourselves two more days to shoot it. And it shows. It really feels bigger than a regular iZombie episode.
What are you most excited for fans to see from the season finale?
I've been so excited to see the response to Major's arc. People thought in the beginning of the season that he was just there for Liv to pine over or to mope around, but he's really grown as a man of action. There's a moment during the finale where I'll be watching my Twitter feed, because that's the moment of the entire year that I've been really excited about.
Press play on the video above now to watch an exclusive clip from the finale!
The iZombie season one finale airs tonight at 9 p.m. on the CW.