Dead End (TV series)

The main events unfold around the heroes of the popular reality show - " Big Brother ", who become witnesses of the zombie apocalypse unfolding in the UK. Despite the fact that according to the format of the show, the participants were selected according to the maximum incompatibility of the characters among themselves, they have to stop quarrels and rally for survival.

The main characters of the show: Marks, Pipa, Zhoplin, Veronica, Angel, Space and Graysen are the participants of the TV show who remained after 2 months of being in the framework of the project. They are joined by Kelly - assistant producer and Patrick - producer , who are the only ones who survived after the invasion of the walking dead on the project studio, also in episode 5 they are joined by Rick, the guy Kelly, who made his way through many dangers for the first 4 episodes to meet his girlfriend. The action in the series takes place over three days, from the first signs of a pandemic to the total infection of the entire country. Also during the series, you can find out that the epidemic went beyond the UK and spread to continental Europe .

Unfortunately, attempts to survive together with the goal of survival among the heroes were unsuccessful. Patrick, a producer who is very "heavy" in character, urges Zhoplin to escape when all the other survivors were against it, because when the gates were opened, the infected, thirsty for human flesh, the walking dead would burst into the project area. Patrick and Zhoplin are trying to escape, but this leads to fatal consequences. Already at the very gates Patrick in a brawl kills Rick, Zhoplin runs in a panic to the gates and opens them, letting in the infected ones. At the end of the final series, they show that an unknown disease has captured the whole country, and also that none of the project participants survived.

• Jaime Winstone - Kelly
• Andy Nyman - Patrick
• Riz Ahmed - Rick
• Liz May Brice - Alex
• Warren Brown - Stamps
• Beth Cordingly - Veronica
• Adam Deacon - Space
• Kevin Eldon - Joplin
• Shelley Conn - Claire

The website of the series was launched on September 17, 2008. The website contains photographs, videos and other materials related to the show.

The entire series was released on DVD on November 3, 2008. The total DVD time is 141 minutes. The DVD includes interviews with the director, screenwriters, actors and other creators of the series, off-screen scenes, a short film about creating visual effects and make-up of the dead, as well as extended and deleted scenes, including:

• The fictional release of the TV show 8 Out Of 10 Cats the day before the main action of the series.
• An expanded scene of Patrick's discourse on modern society during the dismemberment of Grayson's body.
• An extended version where Patrick taunts the relationship of Mark and Veronica.
• In the finale itself, when Pipa runs away after a shot, trying to hide in the film set, in one of the guest rooms she runs into her zombie mother, who kills her own daughter.

• According to the director, Jan Demange, the idea to create a series came to him while watching the reality show “ Big Brother ”. He was attracted by the idea that such a place could be the best shelter in the world of zombie apocalypse .
• After Kelly talks about the epidemic, Markey goes to Grayson, arms outstretched and saying, “They're coming for you, Barbara.” This phrase is a direct reference to the first film about the living dead cannibals “The Night of the Living Dead” by George Romero . Despite the fact that this is an obvious allusion to Romero’s films and the concept of “Zombies,” the terminology is never mentioned in the film.
• The film does not talk about how the epidemic began, however, in the course of the action, various versions from the characters sounded more than once. Among them were: a version of a terrorist attack using psychotropic gas, the use of genetically modified foods or Wi-Fi ( - God only knows how this affects your molecules! ). Already before the denouement, Zhoplin quotes the Revelation of John the Evangelist: Then he gave the sea of ​​the dead who were in it, and death and hell gave the dead that were in them; and each was judged according to his deeds. Rev.20: 13.14 , thereby assuming the version that God, whoever he is, condemns our culture.

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• Review of the series on The Hollywood Reporter website