Black Summer: 6 most WTF moments from Season 1
By Mads Lennon
3. A zombie rave.
Why were people having a night club style rave in the middle of a zombie apocalypse!? I mean what even was that place the survivors wound up at in episode 6? It was like some kind of strange opium sex den with armed soldiers.
As if the rave itself wasn’t a strange enough addition, Rose almost gets raped by one of the lecherous guards. Then Sun gets stuck in one of the most horrific sequences in the show when she’s trying to escape out of an air duct and the guy she’s with dies and turns zombie!
2. Rose shoots Velez.
It was more shocking than anything. I thought Velez was going to make it back to his family. Sun and Spears are forced to half-limp as they struggle to cart a severely injured Velez across the finish line with a zombie horde chasing after him.
It becomes evident they won’t make it there if they have to keep carrying Velez, he’s slowing them down. Velez begs for Rose to kill him if she must and she does, without hesitation. Rose has certainly become adept at playing survival of the fittest.
1. The ending.
I’m of mixed minds on the ending of the first season. It fits with the frantic, break-neck pacing of the show but also leaves a lot to be desired. There is no real closure whatsoever. Rose is reunited with her daughter as she, Sun, and Spears finally make it to the stadium. We see Anna emerge from the stands and then sprint towards her mother (I believe she was holding a gun) but before we actually see Anna reach Rose, the screen cuts to black. The end!
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On one hand, it does provide closure for Rose’s arc, her whole goal was finding her daughter and that is the main push of the first season, but we don’t know what happened to Lance, where all the other people are if the stadium was meant to be a sanctuary, or what the status of the outside world/the military is. I will admit it’s a great hook for next season though because it leaves you burning with the desire to find out what’s next.
The complete first season of Black Summer is now streaming on Netflix.