You are what you eat
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Liv on frat-boy brain crushed it at beer pong. The CW
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Liv on vigilante superhero brain. The CW
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"Pick a card": Liv on magician's brain. The CW
Liv on vigilante superhero brain. The CW
"Pick a card": Liv on magician's brain. The CW
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And let's not forget the various Big Bads, most notably S2's Vaughan du Clark (Steven Weber), amoral playboy CEO of Max Rager, and his conniving temptress daughter, Rita (Leanne Lapp). They provided all manner of delicious devilry before meeting a fitting end: Rita, now a zombie due to Vaughan's negligence, goes "full Romero" during the S2 finale and eats daddy's brains in an elevator before being shot in the head.
Perhaps the best thing about iZombie was how much fun the writers had giving Liv so many different kinds of brains to eat—and how much fun McIver had weaving those very different personalities into her performance. There was the rich shopaholic Desperate Housewife; an amorous painter; a sociopathic hitman who was a whiz at pub trivia; a grumpy old man; a schizophrenic; a kids' basketball coach; a magician; a dominatrix; a medieval history professor fond of LARP-ing; and a ballroom dancer, to name a few.
Liv on agoraphobic hacker brain dominates an online gaming campaign, while she becomes an ace dungeon master on Dungeons & Dragons brain, much to nerdcore Ravi's delight—although perhaps not as much as he enjoys Liv on vigilante superhero brain. (He found Liv on PhD scientist brain more annoying.) And sometimes the brains are used for throwaway humor: Lowell accidentally eating a gay man's brain just before his first date with Liv, for instance, or Liv, Blaine, and Don E. hopped up on conspiracy theory brain and bonding over their shared paranoid delusions.
If I were forced to pick my favorite brain, however, I'd probably go back to the S1 episode, "Flight of the Living Dead," in which Liv's adventurous former sorority sister, Holly (Tasya Teles), dies in a skydiving "accident" that turns out to be murder. Back in the day, Liv was among those who voted to kick Holly out of the sorority for her constant rule-breaking and reckless behavior. But after eating Holly's brain in hopes of finding out who killed her, Liv learns more about where Holly was coming from and how to bring something of Holly's insatiable lust for life into her own existence. "Live each day as if it were your last" can't help but strike a chord with Liv, who took her former ambitious, over-achieving life for granted before that fateful boat party.
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