The show is a homoesxual allegory

Yeh,thought it last week bit definitely after watching this weeks ep its bein used as a metaphor

true i guess. you could say the same about WARM BODIES or TRUE BLOOD as well. i'm gay myself and i can relate a lot to what the zombies are dealing with (that sounds weird even as i'm typing this! LOL).

At first I thought it was a metaphore for immigration but the homosexual idea makes more sense lol.

I think it's an allegory of prejudice in general. I saw a fairly obvious link with mental illness, particularly psychosis, and the problems of treatment in the community. The community nurse, the medication, the false smiles, the fear, the information leaflets with smiling zombie faces. I was a mental health nurse and actually knew someone, diagnosed with schizophrenia, who changed his name to "zombie" by depoll.

I can equally see the allegory with racism and sexism, and I thought the first two episodes very superior tv.

I love this show so much! And I do agree that there seems to be a gay vibe between rik and kieren but having listened to many radio shows and reading articles about it it seems that the idea of this show was the idea of people with a mental disability, who many people see them as still being unstable while they are on medication and I think the bbc wanted to show what the world was like in the eyes of an outsider, especially people who could have been in psychiatric (excuse my spelling) hospitals. I feel this show has been really well done and I think they should definatly make another series, although all the actors in it have said they think there will not be another series because the 3 episodes meant it came to a conclusion!

I don’t agree at all. Homosexuality was dealt with in an interesting fashion, it was hinted at quite openly but never became an issue in the story (although it left you wondering if it would eventually become the real problem). That it wasn’t an issue became more obvious after episode 3 when Kieran and his mother were talking together in the cave.

I think the series was making the point that there will always be prejudice; once one goes, people will chose another.

Of course there were many other issues raised too, the sensitive way in which suicide was dealt with was valuable for a time when so many young people are taking their own lives.

I think it's more an allegory for prejudice in general, especially small village mentality prejudice.

As for the gay thing. I got a "history" vibe between Ric and Ren well before the mention of "fooled around" in the cave. I'm not suggesting they were boyfriends or anything, just that after a few ciders some shenanigans may have happened. Perhaps Ric ran away to the army because he was ashamed of what he thought he was, especially when you take in to account his extremely bigoted father.

Errrrr...DUH!