Webseries Saving The Human Race tries to combine a raunchy teen comedy with the zombie apocalypse to mixed results. George A. Romero spawned the modern-day zombie movie with 1968 classic Night Of The Living Dead, where a group of strangers hold up in an isolated farmhouse and try to survive a zombie outbreak. The movie set up most of the rules of the genre and ended on a hauntingly bleak note. Romero would return to zombies many times in the decades that followed, with Dawn Of The Dead and Day Of The Dead both considered classics.
Horror fans certainly haven't been short of zombies in recent years. The Walking Dead comic spawned the hit series, which in turn received various spinoffs like Fear The Walking Dead. The Resident Evil franchise began way back in 1996 and while zombies haven't always been the main threat, the 2019 Resident Evil 2 remake brought them shambling back to life - or undeath. World War Z from 2013 was the first true zombie blockbuster, which later received a hit video game. Zombies are arguably played in pop culture but occasional gems like Train To Busan keep the genre going.
The webseries Saving The Human Race isn't one of the better options, though it has its charms. This 2017 horror-comedy is a remake of a Norwegian short from 2012 and follows a teenager named Matt (Benjamin Papac, Into The Badlands) and his robot pal Joansey (Hartley Sawyer). A zombie apocalypse means only seventeen men and 64 women exist in a world overrun with 7 billion zombies. Matt's goal is to lose his virginity and repopulate the Earth, while Joansey helps keep him alive and provides moral support.
Saving The Human Race only ran for six short episodes on CW Seed, with episode 1 finding Matt rushing to meet fellow survivor Emma (Jessica Lu, American Horror Story). Emma immediately realizes what Matt is after and in between ignoring his weak attempts to woo her, she focuses on rescuing her sister. Saving The Human Race is a fluffy horror-comedy that doesn't do anything new or fresh with the zombie genre. The actors do their best with the material and overcoming a low budget, but its never scary and most of the gags fail to land; some of the silliness can raise an occasional smirk though.
Saving The Human Race ended on something of a cliffhanger, but while it set up more adventures, it's doubtful any more episodes will happen. When it comes to zombie comedies, either One Cut Of The Dead or Little Monsters are superior options.