Did CW's "iZombie" TV show premiere deliver just the right amount of humor and mystery to earn high ratings?
According to Deadline, the new "offbeat and quirky" "Walking Dead"-like show earned "decent" viewership at 2.34 million viewers in the 18-49 demographic.
On the other hand, Entertainment Weekly thought the pilot episode could "use a bit more life."
Meanwhile, NJ.com thinks that the first episode "came out strong and had precious little wrong with it from the perspective of a new show."
Liv Moore (Rose McIver) reportedly brought "a lot of life to a creature that is usually a lot less dynamic."
The first episode breezed through the backstory and jumped right into the case of the week. The audience immediately got into Liv's dilemma and found out that she absorbs both memories and habits of the dead people whose brains she snacked on.
By the second episode, the "iZombie" TV show nearly doubled its ratings, reported Zap2It's TV By The Numbers. It managed to attract more viewers from 2.34 million to 3.313 million (from 0.8 to 1.3).
The website already labelled the comic book adaptation "most likely to be renewed" for a second season.
"We wanted to do a case-of-the-week show," executive producer Rob Thomas (who created cult classic "Veronica Mars") explained to Zap2It about the series. "In the comic book, the main character is a gravedigger and that's how she gets her brains. By making her (in the series) an assistant medical examiner and putting her in the morgue, it gave us our case of the week that we wanted."
The team reportedly chose not to "hew terribly closely to the source material" because they wanted to stick to zombies. The original comics included ghosts and were-terriers among other monsters.
What are you anticipating to see in the "iZombie" TV show?
