It’s cheap but it works to set the tone for this show. Rather than help her friend, the other girl kicks her free and attempts to run off but is also ingloriously killed. During one of these scenes, we see two girls who are busy swearing that they are friends and they’ll look out for one another when one of them is grabbed by a zombie.
While we are meeting our core group of students/teachers that we’ll follow as they venture out from the school and attempt to find other survivors/safety we are also introduced to a lot of high school students that exist only to be cannon fodder. I think it is during the first episode when the zombies are first attacking where I just kind of fell in love with the over the top nature of this show. I will freely admit that this is fanservice laden brainless action that suffers from an extreme absence of plot other than survive and kill zombies, and it doesn’t even conclude, but I will still tell you this is fun to watch. Highschool of the Dead is a case in point. Okay, if you’ve been following my blog you know I have a strange fascination with horror and I’m not too concerned about the quality of it.
