All of Us Are Dead (2022)
Hope is the most painful torture for people who want to despair.
A high school becomes ground zero for a zombie virus outbreak. Trapped students must fight their way out — or turn into one of the rabid infected.
| Type | TV series |
|---|---|
| First aired | 28 January 2022 |
| Status | Returning Series |
| Genre | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
| Created by | Chun Sung-il, JQ Lee and Kim Nam-su |
| Starring | Park Ji-hu, Yoon Chan-young and Cho Yi-hyun |
| Seasons | 2 seasons, 12 episodes |
| Episode length | about 65 min |
| Time to watch it all | about 13 hours |
| Rated | TV-MA |
| Scores | TMDB users 8.3/10 |
Where to watch All of Us Are Dead
All of Us Are Dead is streaming on Netflix ($17.99 a month) in the US. At ten hours a week, all of the series takes about 1 month of Netflix, or $17.99 at list price.
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What kind of watch this is
All of Us Are Dead is a 2022 series that treats a high school lockdown with the same casual dread as a natural disaster. The tone is not campy; it is clinical. The virus does not moan; it just happens. You get 13 hours of students running hallways that should be empty. It is a tight, suffocating watch. The tagline calls hope the most painful torture, and the show spends its runtime proving that point.
What the critics said
Rotten Tomatoes reports 89% of 27 critics gave it a thumbs up, averaging 7/10. The consensus notes the season loses some bite due to its length, though the emotional grounding provides substance. Metacritic sits at 67/100 based on 5 critics, which they classify as generally favorable. IGN scored it 7/10, calling the series "clever, thrilling, and also... a bit exhausting." Variety saw it "making the most out of its nightmarish central location to otherworldly, dizzying effect.
How it did with audiences
On TMDB, users rate it 8.3 out of 10. That is a high score for a show about students eating each other. It suggests the horror worked harder than the marketing did. Audiences likely cared more about the survival mechanics than the studio cared about the merchandising. The numbers are sparse, but the enthusiasm is not.
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Sources
- All of Us Are Dead on TMDB — synopsis, cast, ratings and recommendations
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- “All of Us Are Dead” on Wikipedia, by its contributors (history) — reception, audience figures and legacy, summarised and adapted here under CC BY-SA 4.0
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