Created and written by Robert and Michelle King, “The bite”is a blend satire with COVID and zombies in a six-episode comedy featuring Audra McDonald and Taylor Schilling and follows an unexpected, deadly second wave of the coronavirus outbreak in New York City that first broadcast on Friday, May 21, 2021, on Spectrum.
“The Bite” is centered on New York neighbors who end up tasked with saving the world when a zombie virus emerges. That’s right, zombies. In addition to a global pandemic.
The series follows the lives of two neighbors, Rachel (McDonald) and Lily (Schilling), as they navigate life in quarantine in New York City. While Rachel juggles her many telemedicine clients as well as a shaky, passionless marriage, Lily is upstairs just trying to convince her Wall Street clientele that her very specific skill set is still just as valuable over video as it was in person. When an unexpected, deadly second wave of the virus arrives, we follow these two women as they face unprecedented times while still juggling their careers, their loved ones – and possibly…the end of the world?