All Of Us Are Dead Review: Coming-of-age zombie Kdrama explores bullying

All Of Us Are Dead is currently one of the most-watched shows on Netflix. The South-Korean zombie drama deals with students stranded in a high school amidst a zombie outbreak.

"I warned that if you ignore it for being a minor assault, violence would eventually rule the world," says Lee Byeong-chan (Kim Byung-chul) while telling the cop what led him to create the zombie virus. An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind, but over here it turns half the city into zombies.

After Squid Game and Hellbound, here's another Kdrama that has got the world's attention. This made a Kdrama lover like me - who hates the zombie genre, by the way - watch All Of Us Are Dead on Netflix. Just to understand why is everyone so intrigued? All the blood and gore was a bit too much, but the message behind it all was crystal clear. The makers portrayed how bullying affects the victims and can also lead to calamity. In this case, it led to a zombie apocalypse where a high school turned into a battleground, as students turned into zombies with survivors struggling to stay alive amidst all this chaos.

The 12-part series explores friendships, interpersonal relationships and emotions that are put to the test during humanity's worst-ever crisis. It's heartbreaking to see kids part with their friends who get infected and turn into zombies after being bitten.

Watch the trailer of All Of Us Are Dead here:

(Trailer contains graphic images and violent scenes; viewer discretion is advised)

All Of Us Are Dead explores bullying and love in their brute form. The series begins with Lee Jin-su, being bullied by a group of senior students. Jin-su is Lee Byeong-chan, a life science teacher's son. The teacher is also the creator of the zombie virus, who ran from pillar to post so that the authorities would take action against his son's bullies, but to no avail. As a result, he took matters into his own hands.