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PDS sufferers

Also called: Partially Deceased Syndrome sufferers, rotters
TVUndead2010 to today

In the Flesh is set several years after a worldwide rising of the dead, when the surviving undead are being medicated and returned to their communities. Its setting is a Lancashire village where a militia once hunted them. The series uses the treated zombie to examine prejudice, guilt and acceptance.12

⚔️ Battle it
First appeared
2013
Released 2013
Source work
In the Flesh (2013)
Dominic Mitchell (BBC Three)
Age rating
TV-14 (US)
Made in
United Kingdom
What causes it
Never explained
The Rising is never explained.
How you become one
In the Rising of 2010, thousands of people who had died in 2009 reanimated.
Intelligence
Clever

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
2013

Released 2013

field notes

What the sources say

1

PDS stands for Partially Deceased Syndrome; opponents call them rotters12

2

Medication restores their minds, and they wear contact lenses and cosmetics to pass as living12

3

Without the medication they relapse into a rabid state12

4

A militia, the Human Volunteer Force, hunted them during the Rising12

5

An extremist group, the Undead Liberation Army, answers with violence12

6

Won the BAFTA for best mini-series in 201412

Sources

  1. In the Flesh (TV series) - Wikipedia
  2. In the Flesh - Rotten Tomatoes

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Same era: 2010 to today

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