I like the show only because I have a zombie and Armageddon fetish, but seriously speaking it is not that good. Some parts are very well done, and there are twists I never even saw coming (like Sophia in the barn), however I think it's really stupid how they choose to focus things that should have no importance in the world they live in. But I guess every show needs some filler. Shows on FOX suck, they really can't even be compared to anything on HBO, but this one is pretty good only because I like anything that has to do with zombies.

Watched the first season a few months ago on DVD. Well done. Really looking forward to catching up on the new season.

Yeah because The Walking Dead is a really deep show with a strong message. Please, it's just another cheap run-of-the-mill program for TV junkies.

I think you nailed it. Zombies aside, the way they act is very unrealistic.

Do you guys know this show is based on a black and white comic?

The thing I hate about it is that they force cliched and unrealistic conflict between the characters simply to propel the sub-plots which are hackneyed and lame.

It's as if half the time these characters aren't really in a world surrounded by flesh eating zombies but more so back in their respective towns pissing and moaning about the same old shit, which is ludicrous considering their situation.

In Romero's Dawn Of The Dead, after the group settles into the mall they begin reverting back to their old ways, like bored people at a mall. But the film was in large part a satire on consumerist society gone mad which worked very well. As a movie.

In The Walking Dead they don't give you much that you can sink your teeth into, and maybe it's because the sub-genre has been really, really played to death. Or undeath.


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