Returning: In the Flesh

UK zombie-drama In The Flesh returns with a second season next week on SBS 2.

The BAFTA-winning drama is now expanded from 3 to 6 episodes.

Kieren Walker (Luke Newberry), in the now seemingly PDS-friendly world of Roarton, is keeping his head down, working soul destroying shifts in the Legion pub and squirrelling money into his ‘escape fund’. The only problem is that he can’t escape himself.

In the wider world, tensions are re-igniting. The radical pro-living party, Victus, is whipping up hatred and the Undead Liberation Army is retaliating violently. When Victus MP Maxine Martin (Wunmi Mosaku) enters Roarton, Kieren is dismayed, sensing that danger is encroaching. And when Vicar Oddie (Kenneth Cranham) violently clashes with her, it seems Kieren’s instincts are right.

Kieren is also overjoyed by the return of his BDFF (best dead friend forever), Amy Dyer (Emily Bevan), though his delight is cut short by a tense encounter with Amy’s opinionated beau, ULA member Simon (Emmett J Scanlan). When Amy and Simon reveal the prejudice still bubbling under the surface in Roarton, Kieren knows he needs to leave the village immediately.

8:30pm Wednesday June 18th SBS 2.