The zombies are back! The popular Korean drama ‘All of Us Are Dead’ has been officially renewed by Netflix for a second season.
The news of the renewal came as part of Netflix’s Geeked Week, an event that showcases upcoming shows alongside returners. Geeked Week aims to establish Netflix as a home for Asian horror and sci-fi genre content.
According to Netflix, Asian horror viewership has witnessed a surge of up to 30 per cent on the platform while viewership of sci-fi has increased to 20 per cent in the Asia-Pacific region in the years from 2020 to 2021.
‘All of Us Are Dead’ is based upon a Korean webtoon created by the talented Joo Dong-geun. The plot of the horror fiction series revolves around several high school students who find themselves amid a horrifying zombie apocalypse after a science experiment doesn’t go as planned. Students are completely cut off from the outside world while they find ways to protect themselves from the undead.
The cliffhanger ending of the first season finale revealed six of the zombie survivors who were rescued from the zombie outbreak. However, Nam-ra (Cho), the class president turned into a half-zombie. All the six survivors were quarantined by the government.