Tuesday, March 8, 2011

The Walking Dead


As coma-woken police officer stumbles past rows of dead bodies outside the hospital, we expect them to waken. We keep seeing bodies, and we’re kept guessing whether they’re live, dead or undead.The first survivors he meets are a father and son, Morgan and Duane tormented by Morgan’s wife walking the streets outside the suburban home where they’re squatting. Unable to put her out of her misery, they’re frozen in place, tormented by her presence. It’s the most nightmarish of scenarios-hunted by the shell of a loved one-the zombies aren’t generic; this one is personal.Few living souls and little action for a zombie show also leads to good character development. Grimes (the Cop) is shell-shocked by the world he wakes up to and Morgan serves as his mentor into reality. There are more survivors, and they’ve somehow got to work together and fight the fantastical, but they won’t always work together. It’s the horror version of "Lost" with fewer smoke monsters and more crawling torsos.

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