I have half an episode to go and then I will have finished binge watching the cheesy and ridiculous tv series “Z Nation”. Even this nonsense zombie series had some good ol’ fashioned American civil religion. In later seasons - there’s a story arc that once things (*cough*) die down - they want to eventually have elections. Of course the system of government is going to be democracy, the importance of voting is mentioned, and there are some scenes about the constitution. Luckily nearly all those scenes were ridiculous, stupid, and actually funny. But I did nearly groan out loud at the scene with a pocket-sized constitution and sort serious dialog about it.
I just remembered I entirely forgot I was going to do a screengrab of “VOTE” signs that appeared and post about it. I deleted that episode days ago. Oops.
Spoiler
The series went off the rails when they started to introduce different kinds of zombies. One alternate zombie group is “talkers”. They can talk but once in a while they are in danger of going “feral” and becoming more like regular zombies. In that instance - right away they need to eat brains or a brain cracker substitute. The series ended in s05. If there was a s06 - maybe there would be elections? And I guess there would be debates if talkers should have the same unalienable rights as humans. I can imagine the dialog.
“They should have the same unalienable rights as humans.”
“No, they shouldn’t. Sometimes they wanna eat our brains!”
The law is the sacred text of the American civil religion
I have half an episode to go and then I will have finished binge watching the cheesy and ridiculous tv series “Z Nation”. Even this nonsense zombie series had some good ol’ fashioned American civil religion. In later seasons - there’s a story arc that once things (*cough*) die down - they want to eventually have elections. Of course the system of government is going to be democracy, the importance of voting is mentioned, and there are some scenes about the constitution. Luckily nearly all those scenes were ridiculous, stupid, and actually funny. But I did nearly groan out loud at the scene with a pocket-sized constitution and sort serious dialog about it.
I just remembered I entirely forgot I was going to do a screengrab of “VOTE” signs that appeared and post about it. I deleted that episode days ago. Oops.
Spoiler
The series went off the rails when they started to introduce different kinds of zombies. One alternate zombie group is “talkers”. They can talk but once in a while they are in danger of going “feral” and becoming more like regular zombies. In that instance - right away they need to eat brains or a brain cracker substitute. The series ended in s05. If there was a s06 - maybe there would be elections? And I guess there would be debates if talkers should have the same unalienable rights as humans. I can imagine the dialog.
“They should have the same unalienable rights as humans.”
“No, they shouldn’t. Sometimes they wanna eat our brains!”
Somebody else quickly pipes in: “So what? We’re all Americans - aren’t we?”