Syfy kills ‘Z Nation’ after five seasons
Fans have demanded an afterlife for the zombie apocalypse show on the streaming service Netflix.
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“Z Nation” actors Jerry Dykeman and Brie Edwards wait to shoot a scene on Wall Street in downtown Spokane on Aug. 26, 2016.
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Makeup artists with Los Angeles-based Synapse FX spent hours transforming Sam Conner, of Spokane, into a zombie extra for the Syfy show “Z Nation.”
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“Z Nation” zombie extra David St. Clair acts for the camera on South Madison Avenue in Spokane on June 4, 2014.
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“Z Nation” actors Kellita Smith, as Warren, left, and Sydney Viengluang, as Sun Mei, shoot a scene on Wall Street in downtown Spokane on Aug. 26, 2016.
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Makeup artists with Los Angeles-based Synapse FX spent hours transforming Phil Humphrey, of Spokane, into a zombie extra for the Syfy show “Z Nation.”
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Behind the scenes of “Z Nation,” crew members monitor the filming of a scene at Northern Quest Casino on Aug. 6, 2015. The episode being filmed shows a group of survivors visiting an Indian casino that is still operating despite a zombie apocalypse.
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Spokane actor Patrick Treadway, a former “Z Nation” cast member, holds prop weapons while working on the show’s set at Northern Quest Casino on Aug. 6, 2015. Treadway played a short-lived character in the first season.
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“Z Nation” prop master Shoshana Cooper holds an antique fireplace tool salvaged from the childhood home of former Spokesman-Review columnist Doug Clark. She affectionately named the tool “The Spokesman” and planned to use it to kill zombies in a future episode of the Syfy show.
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Makeup artist Liz McCracken, with the Synapse FX effects crew, puts the finishing touches on Logan Binstock, a zombie extra on “Z Nation.”
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Makeup artist Corinne Foster applies some fake blood to a sprocket wound on Sean Dunn, a zombie extra on “Z Nation.”
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Spokane native Matt Davidson, playing a zombie on the Syfy show “Z Nation,” attempts to bite actor Nat Zang, who plays the character 10K (named for his goal of eliminating 10,000 zombies) during a media interview at the show’s premiere at the Garland Theater in Spokane on Sept. 12, 2014.
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A costume worn by the “Z Nation” character Lt. Roberta Warren was on display at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane.
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“Z Nation” director Abram Cox, right, and Jared Briley, first assistant director, left, scout out shooting locations on June 6, 2017, in a stairwell at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane.
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Allie Adachi, an intern at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane, rolls up “Z Nation” posters from a museum exhibit on June 6, 2017.
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The “Citizen Z” control room from the Syfy show “Z Nation” was on display at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane.
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Zombie teeth molds from the Syfy show “Z Nation” were on display at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane.
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Macabre furniture props from the Syfy show “Z Nation” were on display at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane. Polymer sheet were poured and molded around the furniture to look like human skin.
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A suit and throne belonging to a character from the Syfy show “Z Nation” were on display at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane.
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This display at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane showed “Batch 47” test vaccines from the Syfy show “Z Nation.”
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A makeup kit for a character from the Syfy show “Z Nation” was on display at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane.
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“Z Nation” actors Anastasia Baranova, left, and Gene Tagaban, right, rehearse a scene at Northern Quest Casino on Aug. 6, 2015.
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Actor Keith Allen, who plays the half-zombie, half-human character “Murphy” in the Syfy show “Z Nation,” chats with the media while in costume between shooting takes at Northern Quest Casino on Aug. 6, 2015.
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