Prime Video's 97%-Rated Horror Is Surprisingly Deep For Yet Another Zombie Show

We’re quite used to thinking that all the horror movies with zombies wandering around in there are something that dwells on a very unrealistic perspective of the world’s biggest disaster, yet few of them still put a much bigger meaning into a seemingly trivial story about the walking dead.

Though it has no chances to ever enter Amazon Prime’s top with all the fierce competition guaranteed by brand new flicks and shows, a 2013 BBC supernatural drama series In the Flesh is an unfairly forgotten horror the storyline of which goes far beyond mere survival among zombies.

How Exactly Does In The Flesh Stand Out?

Taking place in some kind of alternate universe, In the Flesh follows a zombie teenager Kieren Walker, portrayed by Luke Newberry, who is all of a sudden rejected by his family that presumably pronounced him officially dead after he passed away in 2009, but then came back as a zombie.

Being a part of a zombie group that has to go through some treatment for PDS (Partially Deceased Syndrome), Kieren yet feels constantly attacked not only by his own family, but also by the society that labeled him and everyone like him “rotters” while trying to demolish everyone’s sympathy for zombies with help of local churchman Vicar Oddie.

With everyone being against him and his existence, Kieren embarks on a whole new mission to confront the conservative local society and his own inner issues that constantly bring up some sinister flashbacks.

In the Flesh appears to be a real hidden gem for Amazon Prime’s viewers as, upon the show’s release back in 2013, it got an impressive score of 97% from both critics and the audience on Rotten Tomatoes and to this day holds such a solid number.

The show received everyone’s praise back then due to its blatant criticism of the modern day society, the inner limits of which tend to put young people in some kind of box where they have no way of expressing themselves or just stating who they really think they are.

Sadly, even with all the raving reviews that In the Flesh got, the show was canceled after two seasons due to a budget cut.

However, it’s still definitely worth checking for everyone who somehow feels concerned about the modern world’s agenda and feels a need to see a whole new perspective of how the same agenda would be inserted in a zombie-inhabited universe.

In the Flesh’s two seasons can be streamed on Amazon Prime.