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After the series opens with a quick scene, on the beach and in the past, it then goes into a montage scene of events, occurring that dreadful first day, of the "zombie" apocalypse.

Leading you away from the past, and into that montage scene, is the classic, Bad Moon Rising...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YlTUDnsWMo


At the end of Episode 3, of the first season, is a twisted scene, in an episode that introduces a villain, to the story.

Eminem ft Rihanna - Love the way you lie, seemed like a perfect ending, in a scene that reveals just how diabolical, this new character can be...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiUNTdFX8G8


The first season ends in the 6th episode, with a moment, and a song, that will bring the tears...

X Ambassadors - Unsteady

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFjryf8zH_M


A bonus scene, will follow the credits, to the season one finale, and no better apocalyptic song than Radioactive - Imagine Dragons...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO_WxYC34eM


The second season opens with the immediate aftermath, of the devastating season finale, and my personal favorite, Amy Lee of Evanescence - New Way To Bleed, leads the way...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UezeSk0mIi0


Season 2, Episode 3, finds characters kayaking themselves to safety, through forest fires, weather, floating "zombies" and of course, the danger of other people!

You could say they're "riding the storm"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-SpyO6bcwc


The 4th episode of season 2, finds them using UPS as shelter, and a gassed up and ready to go, delivery truck, for transport. So of course. M.I.A. - Paper Planes, is perfect for a scene...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DISaAnMUkto


Later that same episode, after having kayaked off the mountain, and scored the delivery truck, they were kayaking for, they feel very much on the verge of completing their long journey, and making it to the safety of the highly anticipated, compound. So only one song, comes to mind...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1_OfmrPAfo


In the mid season finale, episode 2.5, another heart breaker is played, as the revelations of the tragedies, of season 1, are discovered by the family, and characters we've only read about, in flashback scenes. Until they catch up with us, in time, and with tons of emotion...

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AWFf7EAc4


Season 2, second half is about the aftermath, of the mid season finale, and in episode 2.9, the family finds itself, ending a week of grieving, with a mission that gives them an excuse to drink, celebrate, and ease some of their recent pain, and it just so happens, that playing extremely loud music, is a part of their mission, as much as it is a reason to party!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ztENhDCmu8


Later in episode 2.9, the family is again in need of playing loud music, to fulfill their mission, and before it begins, a special announcement is made, that gives them even more hope, and reason to celebrate!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-WYxwg94L4


In the Season 2 finale (episode 10), Zane finds himself away from his family, and suddenly motivated, to do whatever it takes, while leading a different group, into battle, with his masterminded creativity, as an advantage...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M66U_DuMCS8


Also in the finale, Leo finds himself a complete mess, and in need of leaving the compound, for another mysterious camp...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwb7JemfU2I


Season 2 ends with the same song the mid season finale ended with, except with a more positive beat, and different voices, as the dark cloud of the mid season finale, is lifted, and hope is restored, to the Baker family...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRP8d7hhpoQ


Season 3 begins with a snowy compound that is decorated for Christmas, and with glimpses of this scene during the beginning of the first 3 episodes of the 3rd season, the end of the 4th episode, and again at the beginning AND end of the mid-season finale, the same song, but different versions of it, are used each time as these scenes become suspenseful and in the end reveal something significant...

EP 3.1... Carol of the Bells - Trans-Siberian Orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCabI3MdV9g&t=110s

EP 3.2... Carol of the Bells- Instrumental music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1i3mCutTqo

EP 3.3... Carol of the Bells - Lindsey Stirling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKkzbbLYPuI

EP 3.4... Carol of the Bells - EPIC CINEMATIC PIANO INSTRUMENTAL by Tommee Profitt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj4Fz_Qe_O0

EP 3.5... (at beginning) Carol of the Bells - Epic Music Version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GLEJEYDdfg

(at end) Carol of the Bells (Original) Lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7nSKqfBk6k


The song "Christmas in Heaven" is sung by characters, in Episode 3.3


Season 3, second half picks up with the cliffhanger closure to the first half, and after an episode of fighting, and death, which comes to an end while the sun is rising on Christmas morning... 

Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Canon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cP26ndrmtg


EP 3.7 begins with the aftermath of "Red Christmas", and the guilt of Zane, whose actions helped lead to the tragic night before...

Rag'n'Bone Man - Human Lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpimiNvcRC4


Season 3 ends on the same holiday it began, Christmas, and it was not the Christmas they had expected...

SAD PIANO & VIOLIN - BEAUTIFUL - ♫♥ "A Winters Wish"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OVxTjfLAFw&t=37s

Above the Dead is a Walking Dead spin-off. Different characters but same universe, world, and problem...

An absolute emotional mess, and a total suspense/thriller...

 

FYI...the term "zombies" is used in the beginning for explanatory reasons, but not by the characters, as the term does not exist in their

world/universe. Eventually, those characters will create their own term, known as "huffs". Care to know what it stands for? Read and find out!

 

 

Season 1 is brutal, but the character development it creates, is something that will carry into the seasons to come, in which this family has the

resources to do something that most people cannot, as they work to rebuild large sections of Oregon, and eventually into Washington, even

creating "dead free" zones along stretches of the coastline...

 

With both wealth and wisdom working toward their survival in the upcoming apocalyptic world, this family is fortunate to have a head start.

Preparing most of his life for such an apocalypse, Sam Baker raised his family to prepare, as well, while still raising them with a ton of heart,

and emotion. With their support, he has a compound constructed, and adding on to it over the years, was a family tradition...

 

Once the dead begin attacking the living, the family find themselves desperate to gather at said compound. With chaos taking over, most of the

family is already secure, but where this story finds us, is with Sam's son, Fish, and granddaughter, Samantha. They are stuck in the mountains,

trying to wait out the storm, before making their way home, to the compound...

 

It's not where they want to be, but with this fairly secluded property, next to a lake and a huge 3-tree, tree house, that has running water and

an outhouse, things could be worse. Fish and his little girl, find the tree house much safer than the cabin, and for at least the beginning of this

"zombie" apocalypse, they find themselves dependent on it...

 

Surviving, above the dead, is something young Samantha begins to believe may become the way of the future. As creative as her grandfather,

she begins envisioning how such a thing would be plausible. She dreams of reaching her family to share these visions, and she does so,

while leaving the mountain, through the gorge, kayaking the Columbia River, past Multnomah Falls, and into the Coast Range...

 

What will they find once reaching the family they haven't seen, since before the world and it's rules went to hell? Will they be the same people 

we get to know through flashbacks, before meeting them in the present world? Will Samantha see her visions come to life? The compound

certainly has the resources and manpower for it...

 

By the third season, with a group surviving at the barricaded Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, another group behind the walls built by a

team of loggers, and one more in the hills of the coast, the Bakers will have themselves some neighbors, as they all coexist in what becomes

known as, Forest Grover...

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The material is endless, so sit back and prepare for a hell of a ride, with a family that takes its greatness from the past world, into the new one...

Above the Dead 

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