Daybreak Brings The Zombie Apocalypse To High School

They mention problems in high school aren't the end of the world, yet what about any time they literally are?


Netflix's upcoming series Daybreak is willing to bring the zombie apocalypse to a crowd of high schoolers in Glendale, California. Right after nuclear war transforms the landscape into an irradiated wasteland, it's up to the high school students left in back of order to collect into Mad Max-esque gangs in a bid to protect themselves and survive.


It sounds bleak, yet it looks anything nevertheless. Netflix describes it as "part samurai saga, part endearing coming-of-age story, and part Battle Royale." From the look of the teaser trailer, it definitely looks like the series is going to feature plenty of hilarious run-ins with the teen cliques, plenty of gore (there are zombies, right considering that, and also a battle for supremacy that might even give Game of Thrones a run for its money.


Among the teens vying for supremacy are Josh Wheeler (Colin Ford), Wesley Fists (Austin Crude) and Angelica Green (Alyvia Alyn Lind), who warns crowds (affectionally known as "douchewaffles" to "strap in."


"Shit's about to get weird," says Wesley. Weird is beneficial. And yes it looks like Daybreak has it in droves.


Glendale High School's principal Michael Burr (Matthew Broderick, certainly) sets the tone before things fall into crisis. We get brief glimpses of what school was like in simpler times, before the blast, and before the candy-colored wasteland took hold. It's not exactly clear why usual life suddenly devolved into such a terror-laden nightmare or where all of the adults are, nevertheless that will probably be explained in detail as soon as the show finally hits Netflix.


"With a winning attitude, you could defeat the world,” says Burr. Yeah, that as well as a chainsaw, probably. You could catch all 10 episodes of Daybreak as soon as they debut on Netflix this October 24.