Reanimated Podcast

Reanimated Podcast is a talk show about zombies on screen, run by co-hosts Stuart Tiffin and H.A. Conrad. Stuart is in California and H.A. Conrad in New York, and the talk moves briskly between them, full of handoffs, corrections and restarted thoughts. Episodes follow a dependable shape. First comes a round of genre news, then the review the episode is named for. The news segment is where a lot of the fun is. The hosts weigh a new Night of the Living Dead remake without being sure how many remakes came before it, and they find the trailer weak while warming to the casting of Vivica Fox. They greet Marvel Zombies Season 2 with enthusiasm and a worry about delays, tracing the first season's long limbo to knock-on effects from the MCU and the writers' strike. A trailer for Bloodthirsty, billed as an urban zombie tale, loses points for a ham-handed voiceover. The news also strays past strict zombie territory, into a zombie episode of The Rookie and an animated Firefly that the hosts are not sure counts as a reboot. Then comes the main review. The picks include Silent Zone (2025), introduced as a Hungarian zombie film, as well as This is Not a Test (2025), The Dead (2010) with Rob Freeman and Prince David Osei, and the season two finale of The Last of Us. Kyle Diaz joins as a guest for The Last of Us. The reviews are detailed walk-throughs. On The Dead, the hosts linger over a single encounter in a village and how much it sets up, from a son who has survived to a wife who has not. On The Last of Us, they follow the characters through Seattle scene by scene and grumble that a zombie show can leave its streets empty of zombies. That complaint sums up the show's attitude: fond of the genre, impatient with lazy choices. Even the zombie label is up for debate. The Mayfair Witches S2 E1-2 episode is announced as a slight hiatus from zombies, with the hosts unsure whether the witches might end up in zombie territory anyway, and Dracula (2025) gets a turn as well. The register is casual and dry, with bursts of excitement and the odd bit of wordplay, like a promise of 'implausible news' that turns into a riff on the word 'plause'. The discussion assumes a viewer who knows the canon, and spoilers come with the recaps. A large back catalog means there is plenty to dig through.