There are so many good episodes of Z Nation, but which ones really stand out? Do you like “Everybody Dies in the End” the best, or is “Murphy’s Miracle” your favorite episode of Z Nation? To determine once and for all what the best episodes of Z Nation are, let’s rank every Z Nation episode of all five seasons from best to worst.
Airing on Syfy, Z Nation tells the story of Murphy, an inmate whom the government tests a zombie vaccine on that proves effective. As the only human known to survive a zombie bite without turning into a zombie, Murphy and a small group attempt to figure out a way to use his immunity to halt the zombie pandemic. Z Nation stars Keith Allan as Murphy, Kellita Smith as Roberta Warren, DJ Qualls as Citizen Z, Michael Welch as Mack Thompson (who is mercy-killed at the end of season 2 after he’s bitten by a zombie), and Anastasia Baranova as Addy Carver. Created by Karl Schaefer and Craig Engler, Z Nation premiered on September 10, 2014.
Vote up your favorite episodes of Z Nation, and downvote any bad episodes that you really didn’t enjoy, despite how much you love the series as a whole. It can be painful to put one Z Nation episode over the other when there are so many good ones, which is why you can vote on however many episodes you like.
Most divisive: Murphy’s Miracle
Over 100 Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The Best Episodes of ‘Z Nation’
1 We Were Nowhere Near the Grand Canyon
Season 2 Episode 10: A massive horde of zombies threatens our Heroes! With no way to go around, they’re forced to split up for safety.
2 Zombie Road
Season 2 Episode 3: Our Heroes manage to finally track Murphy down. They come across a wagon train caravan of desperate survivors transporting victims of the nuclear blast to safety. Along the way they are attacked by “Blasters,” superfast zombies mutated by the radioactive fallout. Our Heroes are introduced to “Z-Weed,” an ultra-potent strain of marijuana grown in zombie compost. They go on a quest for “Batch 47,” a
3 Welcome to the Fu-Bar
Season 1 Episode 7: As the survivors try to recover from Garnett’s death, they come upon a gun show that makes the zombie apocalypse look calm.
4 Day One
Season 2 Episode 14: Day One.
5 Everybody Dies in the End
Season 3 Episode 14: The gang is reunited and face the biggest battle yet.
6 The White Light
Season 2 Episode 2: Following Citizen Z’s on-air bounty announcement, it seems like everyone left who isn’t a zombie is on the hunt for Murphy — and they’re not afraid to do whatever it takes to bring him in dead or alive! Newly reunited, our Heroes find themselves battling both zombies and over-eager bounty hunters. The fighting is fierce, resulting in a near-death experience for each of our Heroes, culminating in
7 Full Metal Zombie
Season 1 Episode 4: What’s worse than zombies? Soldier zombies. Plus: Ten Thousand’s mysterious past is revealed.
8 We Interrupt This Program
Season 4 Episode 9: Searching for a transmitter to contact Kaya at Northern Lights, Our Heroes discover an abandoned TV NEWS STATION.
9 Down The Mississippi
Season 2 Episode 7: Our Heroes try to cross the Mississippi but are involved in a boating accident and split up again. 10K is drawn into Sketchy and Skeezy’s latest scam, resulting in a run in with Escorpion. Playing judge, jury and executioner all in one, Escorpion sentences 10K, Sketchy and Skeezy all to death. Warren and the rest of our Heroes arrive on the scene, but is it too late?
10 Doc Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest
Season 3 Episode 6: Doc is captured by the residents of a mental hospital and must help them escape.
