As Syfy’s newest zombie drama Z Nation has learned, saying the Z-word is a bold move in an era that has seen the meteoric rise of AMC’s The Walking Dead.
But DJ Qualls, who stars in the drama premiering tonight, isn’t worried about the comparisons.
“We don’t feel any sort of competition,” he says. “We have similar subjects but we’re completely different.” Qualls’ character, nicknamed Citizen Z, is one example of exactly that.
On the show, the actor plays a man who’s trapped at a National Security Agency listening post in the Arctic, out of reach of the zombie apocalypse and set up with years-worth of supplies.
