Four years after the Rising, the government starts to rehabilitate the Undead for reentry into society, including teenager Kieren Walker, who returns to his small Lancashire village to face a hostile reception, as well as his own demons.
Whether it's the bleak, bleak tone, the horror imagery or the indisputable human truths it chooses to show, this is a series that isn't afraid of going to those dark places, shading them in with a whole load of grey in the process.
Creator Dominic Mitchell has twice the episodes to play with in the second season, and it shows. The world is bigger, the characters more plentiful, and the struggles more involved.
