Woke Up Dead

I'm not a big John Heder fan.  Napoleon Dynamite left me pretty cold.  His other roles generally have not endeared me to him.  I'm sure he's a fine person in real life, and no doubt he can act.  It's just a chemistry thing, as in he has none as far as I'm concerned.  Which is why I was pleasantly suprised by the web series "Woke Up Dead."

The main character is a typical Heder loser who literally wakes up dead after being given some chemical at a party.  Two friends are into his secret; his long time annoying friend who wants to film his every move, and the sweet pretty med school gal who's really into dead guys.  Being dead is not so bad.  Sure he has to eat brains (or at least hot dogs which is maybe the most amusing joke) but he also has super zombie speed.  Super zombie speed?  Yep in this version zombies can run around like the comic book Flash, and you thought the "zombies" in 28 Days Later were bad.

So anyway our newly dead guy is balancing trying to find out what happened to him, fending off a conspiracy, and having both a day job and becoming an internet superstar.  The show is fairly funny, has a smart sense of style and everyone works hard making their characters work.  Maybe that it wa a web series and something of a labor of love imparts a lot of good will all around.