Flesh-eating Baby Boomers with a taste for teenagers may seem an unlikely premise for a new Channel 4 comedy series. But this is exactly what Generation Z is serving up, as a stellar cast embarks on an inter-generational culture clash. Created by Ben Wheatley, the television is a high octane and dark comedy which begins on Channel 4 this week starring Sue Johnston , Robert Lindsay, Anita Dobson and Johnny Vegas.
Wheatley said the show sits within the “world of horror” but is also a disaster movie, setting up the characters and how they deal with the approaching catastrophe which has happened outside the fictional town of Dambury. He said: “It’s got echoes of Covid, echoes of the classic zombie genre, of The Crazies and Threads and all sorts of things. “I was excited about structuring it around multiple generations so there would be different perspectives that would interact within the story.
” What is Generation Z about? The show is set in the fictional location of Dambury, a small town with little going on and the last place you’d expect the apocalypse to begin. But when an army convoy overturns outside a care home, a chemical leak starts to have an adverse effect on the residents. The OAPs escape the grasp of the army and begin a violent and insatiable quest for raw flesh.
At the same time, the town’s teenagers are living normal lives consumed by complex relationships, A-Level prep and alcohol. That is until they abruptly find themselves at the centre of the .