Dissecting the Miniseries: It’s no surprise Big Brother’s watching ‘Dead Set’
Dead Set
(141 minutes, 6 parts)
Directed by Yann Demange
Written by Charlie Brooker
2008, UK, Channel 4
Dead Set is a damn good zombie film. Correction: Dead Set is a damn good zombie film in five half-hour parts. Or perhaps more accurately, Dead Set is a damn fine zombie miniseries that could have easily been assembled into a pretty good zombie movie but was kept nonetheless as a miniseries for whatever reason. Either way Dead Set is a pleasure to watch, to use the word broadly. As far as miniseries go, this is on the short end of the spectrum duration-wise, clocking in at 141 minutes including credits and episode recaps. Yet it is quite possibly this economy, this unyielding brevity that accords it such a visceral, brutal quality.
