iZombie season 5 is coming for your brains. The CW renewed its fun, crime-solving zombie comic book adaptation for a fifth season in 2018, and after the events of the rather upsetting season 4 finale, we’re all wondering how the show will end when it returns this year for its final run.
iZombie has never been a ratings juggernaut for The CW. Its fourth season averaged fewer than one million viewers per episode, but not many non-Riverdale shows are ratings powerhouses for the network. With that as an accepted fact of life, it’s usually able to get away with just keeping shows around it likes and that generate conversation. iZombie‘s talented creator Rob Thomas (Veronica Mars,Party Down) has forged a series with a strong fan base, and that has also certainly helped it live as long as it has.
Season 5 will get underway on 2nd May in the US, it’s been announced. As Netflix UK has cheerfully brought us new episodes within 24 hours of their US premiere date in the past, we can assume that we’ll be able to clap our eyes on the first episode of season 5 from 3rd May.
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In an interview with TV Line, Thomas admits that they “got by by the skin of [their] teeth” with season 4, but that they’re now getting down to the bittersweet business of wrapping up five years of iZombie goodness.
“We could have gone longer,” Thomas reflected on the final season renewal. “But we are pretty pleased to be coming back for a fifth [season] … I would have been incredibly heartbroken if we had not gotten to do another one, because we would not have ended up leaving everything in a resolved place.”
One thing is for certain: Liv’s hero status will only spread further on season 5…
Before we broke season 4, we talked about how the danger of opening up the world so that there are 10,000 zombies now in Seattle rather than eight, or however many there had been in previous seasons, was that it made Liv less special. We don’t want her to be just a random zombie. We wanted her to be more than that. So one of the quests this year was [to] believably turn Liv into a folk hero. That was very much by design, and we’re not going to drop that going into season 5. We’re going to play that out. What does it mean for Liv to have this bit of notoriety moving forward?
And asked by TV Line if he has a “bucket list” of things he definitely wants to resolve in season 5, he confirmed a few things we can expect to see before the show bows out:
The fate of Major and Liv will need to be answered by the end of [next] season. That I can promise, that there will be a resolution. I don’t know what that resolution will be yet, but it will feel resolved. And that was always one of those things that you’re going to hold in your back pocket until your final season and figure it out then. I think we’re going to give some sort of answer to the fate of zombie kind. And again, I do not know what that answer will be, but we won’t do the Sopranos ending. It won’t just be like you’re watching the show and then someone just hits stop in a random place. And I say that actually really liking the Sopranos ending, but I suspect that we’re going to get more resolution than that.
More on season 5 as we get it.