Rumors on the street mentioned All Of Us Are Dead potentially will release its second season around 2024. So, while waiting for the release of the second, let’s refresh our knowledge about this phenomenal K-zombie series. All Of Us Are Dead has 12 Episode and runs for 72 minutes. Unlike Kingdom which sets in Joseon Era, All Of Us Are Dead was set in modern day South Korea with a background of High school in a city called Hyosan. Although the series didn’t won any award but the actor and actress won best new award during APAN Star Awards. Personally, I got to know this series from Super Action which was a reality shows highlighting stuntmen. In one of the episodes, they had to re-enact the scene from All of Us Are Dead. But only last week, I got to check out the full episode of this series. Safe to say, this gets to my top 3 K-zombie list.

All Of Us Are Dead centers around the story of high school students trying to survive the outbreak caused by a virus called Jonas. Once someone gets bitten by the infected, they will turn into a zombie. The zombie is sensitive to sound but overtime, they mutated and those with mutation doesn’t show any symptoms and is looking like normal human. There's a catch, they show a superhuman strength.

High school students being chosen as the main characters in the story is quite appealing. They are in a transition phase and when faced with adversity, their decision making was tested. The zombie thrown into the story serves as apparatus that symbolizes life challenges and options that they could have. But All Of Us Are Dead, like many other South Korean series and film is also bringing bullying into the scene.

Bullying is not a stranger within South Korea film. There are many stories featuring high school students being bullied and their approach to solve that issue. In fact, All Of Us Are Dead’s virus was also started because Bullying.It shows that it is dire problem that the society needs to overcome together but as seen in the series, sometimes people with money and power can get away from it without consequences.

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All Of Us Are Dead presents intriguing story and problems wrapped in graphic scenes where desperate high school students attempting to flee from the zombies. As seen in the series, they hoped to rely on adult but they eventually realized that only they can save themselves and it was time to start to rely less on adult who can be quite unreliable.

Despite being relatively new in the south korean film industry, from Yoon Chan-young, Park Ji-hu, and Lomon, they did a good job in playing as high school students. It’s even more so when they managed to agitate me for silly things they do during the outbreak. While watching it, I was wondering if that was part of their naivete and attempt to show that the things they do is exactly what any highschool students would during such time. First, they don’t know how to construct weapon except a few of them, and second, they don’t have a good organizational skills where they could manage to survive longer. They were simply there to survive and hoping adults would come into their rescue.

All Of Us Are dead is not just about good-looking casts but also the story that wraps it all together. In the end, what will happen to the main protagonist? Will the survive the outbreak? How can they end it when the virus have mutated?

This is why I am really looking forward to the second season of the series. I wanted to see new setting and how the main characters overcome their adversity and adjusting themselves into the new world. Maybe there’s more zombie and superpower zombie? Who knows. I certainly feel a lot more enthusiastic on the second season and hoping it won’t be such a flop given the first season received quite good reception worldwide.