iZombie (5x02) - Dead Lift - Episode Discussion (airdate 5/9/2019)
 

IZOMBIE
“Dead Lift”— (8:00-9:00 p.m. ET) (TV-14, DLSV) (HDTV)

KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR GUEST STARS — Liv (Rose McIver), on fitness guru brains, and Clive (Malcolm Goodwin) continue investigating a murder with no body and no evidence. Meanwhile, Peyton (Aly Michalka) approaches councilman Zed (guest star Kareen Abdul-Jabbar) with a request but doesn’t get the answer she was hoping for. Lastly, Liv surprises Major (Robert Buckley) with a thoughtful gesture just when he needs it the most. Rahul Kohli, David Anders and Bryce Hodgson also star.

Michael Fields directed the episode written by Philip Hoover & Jacob Farmer (#402).

I might have gotten this episode mixed up with 5x01. Is this the episode where those kids hot-wired a police car? I think it was. I guess they could have watched a video on YouTube perhaps or somewhere else about it, because that's not something that I think most teens or children, & perhaps adults know how to do. I've never except on a T.V. show or movie seen people hot-wire a vehicle before. So when I see this I wonder what is going on with the youth these days?

Anyway, Kareem Abdul-Jabaar was on this episode & if you didn't recognize him, he was wearing a suit & the tallest person on this episode by far. I think he had a goatee & was bald or had a shaved head per usual.

Also, did Peyton say that she saw a barbershop quartet in ''whiteface''? I know she said see saw people in whiteface, which I didn't know was a thing. I know about blackface. Al Jolson, a notable actor from the 1950's was known for wearing blackface. Haven't heard about whiteface before though.

most people dont know how to hot wire a car. but i guess if you grow up in the rough part of the city you learn to adapt to get buy. older kids will teach you bad things to to.

liv on her exercise kick was funny. she was hard core

Yeah. I haven't spent time in Seattle to have experienced good or bad neighborhoods there, so really have mostly what is online to go by.

So you liked her on this brain then & it wasn't too over the top for you?

ive never been to Seattle so i have no idea

it was a little over the top. but i still enjoyed it

I've been to Olympia & Tacoma, but not Seattle. Maybe some day. Now I think ''Baron'' is this guy's last name, but if I remember correctly he was trying to smuggle kids into New Seattle, but they were ambushed , so he got shot in his chest. Baron didn't try to run or hide behind a car or anything, which was odd. So 3 kids I think made it safely to Renegade's hideout, 1 was terminal, but for some reason the other 2 if I'm not mistaken suffered the same fate as him.

Baron was the distraction he ran out while the kids ran to hid somewhere where it was safe from them. one of the kids was terminal but when they got to liv's they asked him to scratch them so they could all be together.