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The similarities between this and Veronica Mars should not put you off watching this new creation from Rob Thomas. What saves this from having only one season before being cancelled, is what saves a lot of other great shows. Excellent, witty - banter. It occurs between all the characters, good and bad, and has a lot of pop culture references dropped in throughout that keeps you on your toes. Procedural storyline, only fair as the main character - Liv Moore (Rose McIver) works in the police morgue and so a great deal of the bodies are there as a result of foul play. Her presence there goes both ways, as a newly formed zombie/med student, she gets food - brains of the recently deceased and a job. Her boss Ravi (Rahul Kohli) soon figures out her secret and is her confidant in a way and also helps provide much of the comic relief. And after digesting said brains, she also gets that person's memories, which also helps her new partner - Clive (Malcolm Goodwin), a detective in t...

Quentin Tarantino's films, always seem to have a few scenes, where everything is tense and every moment hinges on whatever is said or done. Very much, edge of your seat viewing. For this film, Julius Avery's writing and directing feature debut, that same level of intensity and sharpness is maintained for the full hour and forty eight minutes. For those viewing who's hometown is the city of Perth, (where the film is set and filmed) it is even more of a strong film that draws you in and makes it so hard to come down from. JR, portrayed by Brenton Thwaites, is in jail for a minor offence. Mr Thwaites is a fine actor, I would go as so far to say, a Heath Ledger in waiting. While inside, he meets Ewan McGregor's and Matt Nable's characters, Brendan Lynch and Sterlo respectively. Both are great actors and in this they prove their depth and skill. Its Brendan who is the more charismatic out of the two, but as the film unfolds, the other parts of his deeply layere...