Review: China IL ”Charlize”
Spoilers Below
The guys start a band as a means to coerce Charlize Theron. The name of the band? “Charlize”.
Meanwhile, Pony decides to be a TA at the hospital when all of a sudden, some sort of noxious gas releases into the air. The gas emanates throughout China, IL seemingly killing everyone it comes in contact with. Pony decides to hole up in a chamber that’s sealed off from the outside world, but with a broken leg her options are limited here. As a result, she puts on a haz mat suit and heads off to find a first aid kit to fix her leg. That doesn’t work, so she finds a hospital bed and sets her leg herself. Feeling the need to survive, Pony collects numerous cans of O2, grabs some groceries, and discovers the dead body of Steve. She holes up in an abandoned library and starts a life of surviving on wild game and drinking a bunch of water whilst barely clothed. Pony starts to do some investigation as to the cause of all this bullshit when she discovers Frank is alive and well!
Pony eventually tells Frank that she suspects Lenny Cakes is behind all this, but Frank wants to work with Pony on repopulating the Earth. The former learns that Lenny tried to find a way into Voodoo resurrection so as to bring back to life his dead girlfriend. Problem is, Lenny did the spell wrong and killed everyone, but if Pony does it right she can bring everyone back. She also needs a sacrifice, and being the only one alive, Frank is the likely subject and as such decides to go through with the sacrifice for the good of mankind. It works, and the citizens of China IL are brought back to life!
Our Take
Fans of 28 Days Later (minus the zombies), Last Man on Earth, AND China IL will surely love this week’s episode. It was smart, funny, and Pony’s struggle to stay alive was the best thing I’ve seen all year. How Brad Neely and Co. managed to do a post-apocalyptic comedy is beyond me, but they pulled it off. The producers have really embraced the fantastical elements of this show, and the results are as so. China IL is running away with best show of the year, and it isn’t even close right now. China IL continues to exhibit pure genius, and the show tries new things week after week. We haven’t even seen THAT much of The Dean and he used to be the best part of the show. Give me more episodes on this level, and I won’t even care.
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