The CWNow that was a cliffhanger.
iZombie just ended its second season with such a rollercoaster that we're not even sure we kept track of it all, ending with a twist we did not see coming and a heartbreaking death or two (RIP, Matchbox Twenty's Rob Thomas).
First of all, some good news: Major's (Robert Buckley) no longer in jail or wanted for murder, thanks to Liv (Rose McIver). In order to keep him from deteriorating into full-on zombie mode in the middle of a crowded jail, she told Clive (Malcolm Goodwin) everything.
Now when we say everything, we mean everything, including the source of her helpful visions. Detective Babineaux is now fully apprised of Seattle's zombie epidemic, thanks to Liv proving her story by stabbing herself in the chest right in front of him, and even though it completely destroyed both his Meat Cute case and his relationship with his FBI agent girlfriend, Dale (Jessica Harmon), he pulled some strings and got Major released overnight.
Meanwhile, Vaughn Du Clark (Steven Weber) and Max Rager were secretly pulling their own strings—hiring that sleazy lawyer, stealing all of Major's non-dead undead (including Drake) from those freezers and putting them in zombie prisons in the basement, sending his crony Janko to kill Liv and Major once and for all, and facilitating the sale of the company to a private military contractor, led by a woman named Vivian.
To celebrate the sale, Max Rager hosted a gigantic prison-themed party, complete with prison guards, servers dressed in riot gear, locked doors, Rob Thomas (of Matchbox Twenty, not iZombie's executive producer Rob Thomas, but your confusion is understandable), and a basement full of human experiments. After Liv, Clive, and Major crashed the party to try and rescue the chaos killer victims, the whole shebang went full-on zombie.
All hell broke loose and lots of people died, including poor Rob Thomas, and he was not the last.
In the basement, the zombies from the list feared for their lives and watched the scientists continue to take zombies out and bring them back, looking a lot more zombie. When they went to choose another guinea pig, Drake volunteered, because of course he did.
By the time Liv, Major, and Clive found them all, Drake was beyond saving, and unfortunately Vaughn showed up just in time to let him out of his cell. He first attacked Clive, and Liv was forced to shoot her boyfriend in the head.
Thanks to Major being both very badass and very clever, Vaughn got trapped in his own elevator with his zombie daughter (Gilda? Rita?), his zombie experiments, and a hole in his hand that prevented him from escaping. In a nutshell, he dead. (Rita/Gilda's dead too, but we're not mourning either of them.)
Vaughn's reign as king of Seattle via Max Rager may be over, but he's now been replaced by Vivian Stoll, and she's a whole other beast. Literally. Liv found Vivian and some of her crew happily eating the brains of poor Rob Thomas, while being serenaded by a nice cover of Matchbox Twenty's "Unwell."
"Hungry?" Vivian asked. "You ready for the new world order, Olivia Moore? Ready to do your part for your kind? Someday soon, Seattle's going to be the capital of zombie homeland, and a lot of people aren't going to want to see that happen. So are you with us, or against us?"
Say what?
And that's not even all that went down tonight! In the midst of rekindling their relationship, Ravi and Peyton were forced to join Blaine in going up against Mr. Boss's organization when Peyton was kidnapped to draw Blaine out. They all survived the eventual shoot out, but Ravi found Peyton and Blaine clutching each other for comfort.
We have so many questions: What does this all mean? Is Seattle about to actually go full Walking Dead? Would you ever want to go to a prison-themed party? How much did you laugh at Liv's "This is how a skull breaks" quip upon discovering Rob Thomas dead? Are Blaine and Peyton about to reenact the True Blood storyline where Eric lost his memory? Does this finale rank among some of the best season finales ever?
That last one may be debatable, but our answer is definitely yes.
iZombie will return to the CW later this year, and we can't wait for more.