In the flesh again

/!\ This article contains spoilers if you haven't seen In the flesh S01E02 & previous.

Second (and probably last) article about In the flesh, the last overrated show of british TV.
I saw its second episode, and this show is still as disappointing. I still think that the main problem of this show is the lack of coherency: it's hard to believe people's reactions.

I read some reviews online. There were basically two kinds: the dithyrambic ones (OMG it's so amazing), often written by people lacking discernment, and the zombies experts ones. I had fun reading the second category. Those "experts" about zombies discussed whether or not the plot of the show was realistic, how zombies couldn't be healed, how the medication wouldn't work, how it was so unrealistic to heal zombies, as if zombies were a real thing that you can't mess with.

I personally have a problem with the humans reactions in this show, and I'll tell you why.


 In the end of the first episode, the HVF (the civilian militia against zombies) kills a zombie grandma, for the only reason she is a Zombie, even if she is taking a medication to behave normally. Nobody seems to be shocked about the hate crime, the killer has no problem with the justice. So healed zombies literally had no value, since even killing a dog would bring more problem than killing a zombie.

In this second episode, the HVF leader's son comes back as Kieren before. He's a zombie. He has been treated, but he's still a zombie, just like the grandma of the pilot. So as it is the leader's son, suddenly zombies become accepted in the village. They killed the grandma before just as soon as they heard she was there, but now they welcome a zombie who can shoot a rifle and is trained to war almost normally, just because of his father.

Kieren goes to a fair: people recognize him, discover he is a zombie, and want to lynch him, he has to run away to get back home. Ok, that makes sense. But when Roarton's people hear about his come-back, and the fact that he is there, they... just do nothing about it. In the previous episode they killed a grandma because of her condition; in this episode, they welcome zombies, take them to zombie hunts, don't even segregate them anymore in the pub.

His sister is expelled from the HVF because Kieren is back, but nobody says nothing about the HVF leader's son: this show makes no fucking sense. They shouldn't have killed the grandma. It put a tiny bit of scare in the show but totally destroyed its logic.

All the secrecy of the first episode is blown away. The first episode was mostly a hide and seek, where the zombies had to be very discreet, and now they drink at the pub. Narmol. In the pilot, the vicar told the nurse's son to watch his mother closely, because she secretly takes care of the zombies. That could have been interesting if zombies had stayed hidden. But now that she visits every goddamn zombie house, and everey zombie walks freely outside, it was just unuseful. And misleading, but not in a good way. It's more misleading in a "I don't know what I'm doing" way. Do the showrunners even know where they go ?

There is no coherency between the two first episodes of this show. The characters reaction make no sense: Roaston people go from "kill all the rotters" to "meh, they have a beer next to me, whatever" for no real reason. From unlimited hate to mild indifference in a finger snap. In the meantime, people at the fair reacted they way they should, in this universe, by throwing rocks at Kieren when they recognized him.That was logical. But that lasted like, 1 minute. Then zombies went with zombie-haters hunting zombies since they hate every zombies but they seem not to realize they have zombies with them.

In the flesh is not horrible either. It just doesn't make sense. People's reactions is just too random to be trusted: it seems too made up. And it's far from the masterpiece that some people tend to say it is.