BrainDead

2016

Seasons & Episodes

  • 1
8| TV-14| en| More Info
Released: 13 June 2016 Canceled
Producted By: CBS Studios
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.cbs.com/shows/braindead/
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A young fresh-faced Hill staffer gets her first job in Washington, D.C. and discovering two things: 1. The government has stopped working, and 2. alien spawn have come to earth and eaten the brains of a growing number of Congressmen and Hill staffers.

Genre

Drama, Comedy, Sci-Fi

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BrainDead Audience Reviews

KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?
RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
spank28334 Get spin on the election and how people are acting irrational needs a next season to make fun of how politics and the right and left are somewhat extrem.
Joy Elliott So naturally CBS had to cancel it because it seems most of the country is Brain Dead already on crappy reality TV shows. One can hope that this gem is picked up by Amazon originals or some Cable channel. It is possible the with the change in administration the writers were going to find it difficult to lampoon both sides as brilliantly as they did in the first season. If they find some Libertarian comic writers they should have no problem lampooning the majority parties equally. Oh and if they have to have a reality show make one called, "Brain Dead, Writers."
westsideschl One star for the unimaginative and really bad science (I don't think the writer's/directors really care). 1. Just another in the long sublist of alien thingys taking over a human by crawling through some orifice. Customarily, in the past, it was a wormy looking thing entering through mouth or nose and sometimes an ear. So nothing creative in this scenario. Retread! 2. Alien ants happen to have all the features necessary for survival on Earth, in fact, they look just like fire ants already on Earth. So what gives? 3. They show up inside a meteorite which presents it's own problems of believability (but again, et al. above probably don't' care) such as surviving negative 300 to 400 degrees and the vacuum of space and all it's electromagnetic radiations (although Mythbusters did show that some roaches & beetles can withstand a brief high dosage of radiation). Then there's the several thousand degree entry heat. Anyway, our darling little mandible utensiled brain munchers would have to live inside their rock for thousands of years of extreme hazardous journey. 4. Finally, how convenient that their physiology is precisely adapted to Earth's atmospheric mix; it's specific gravity. No disruption to it's ant high-freq communication from household stray high-freq EM.Ten stars for the prescient spoofing of politics, and it's ugly influencing pimp - money, money, money. 1. Sadly funny portrayal of politics in never Wash D.C. 2. Spoofed how success in one area contaminates whatever it touches e.g. money gained through unethical (but, not surprisingly, legal) means turns out to be very apropos to this past presidential election. Success from business melding into politics does not imply character. A serial killer can be successful for a while, but lacks moral character. 3. The series title is not without purpose - Braindead, besides the ant munched upon type, showcases through burlesque/parody the characteristics of the already braindead elected types.
stephanieraejackson Best show on TV right now. Clever, engaging and so fun to watch. The little catch up review song they sing at the beginning of each episode are hilarious! Each week we can't wait to turn on the television to watch the next episode. Everything else that overlaps is recorded to watch later but this one we watch when it broadcasts. The cast is very natural and even though the concept is out there they make it seem like it is perfectly feasible. I recommend it to anyone who follows American politics and thinks it is nuts - this explanation of why almost feels like the only one that could possibly explain it. Make sure you give it chance because I would love to see it continue and would just hate to see it cancelled.