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BrainDead - Season 1
Laurel knows the U.S. governmental system has its issues, but when she starts her first job on Capitol Hill, she quickly learns things are much further gone than she realized: The government has stopped working, and alien spawn have come to earth and eaten the brains of a growing number of Congressmen and Hill staffers.
1 December 1976, New York, New York, USA
19 August 1975, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
10 June 1988, Santa Clara County, California, USA
20 November 1948, Irvington, New Jersey, USA
3 June 1981, Summit, New Jersey, USA
19 December 1956, Kentwood, Louisiana, USA
9 September 1970, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
19 January 1961, El Dorado, Arkansas, USA
12 September 1958, Chicago, Illinois, USA
25 January 1946, Portola, California, USA
26 April 1963, New York City, New York, USA
2 January 1969, Auburn, Nebraska, USA
13 September 1969, USA
5 November 1962, California, USA
13 January 1944, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
June 12, 2016
There's a streak of idealism running through BrainDead that kept me rooting for the uninfected, and especially for Laurel and Gareth, whose politically fraught flirtation might just put the party back in the two-party system.
June 13, 2016
The creators of BrainDead, Robert and Michelle King, gave us The Good Wife, in its prime the smartest drama on broadcast TV. Here, though, you want to ask them what they were thinking.
June 13, 2016
BrainDead is a teddy bear with fangs, a stinging political satire that bluntly criticizes Washington partisanship and yet radiates hope for the future.
June 13, 2016
BrainDead is still engaging, deliciously weird, and well worth adding to your DVR rotation. I love it simply for existing and, especially, for existing on such a traditional TV network.
June 10, 2016
Not exactly satire, not exactly horror, BrainDead is not exactly much fun, either.
June 09, 2016
Trouble is, in this election cycle, truth is funnier than parody and even brain-eating bugs from outer space can't top whatever is leading the cable TV news cycle.
February 15, 2017
While the satire never cuts deeply, it is scarily effective how close their cartoonish outlandishness matches recent history, and frankly this show's science fiction explanation is more satisfying than the messy truth of our own broken government.
July 22, 2016
BrainDead never, in its execution, gives the impression that it truly groks the political system it mocks... never blends them deftly enough to suggest the deep knowledge that is required to make satire truly scathing.
