AMC zombie series from Frank 'Majestic' Darabont - The Walking Dead

yeah josh, you're totally making me wish LotD was better, because it definitely had some cool ideas and potential in it

my son got me a zombie board game for my birthday

My greatest hope for this show is that it will help take zombies back from the realm of the "zeitgeist" and especially the ironically cute and quaint, and make them horror again.

Good luck with that

Shush ;)

i liked the episode that was on tonight. it was engaging. didn't see the first one. big fan of the comics. tuesday morning i go back to the land of no cable so.

it was pretty good. i'm wanting to re-read those issues so i can remember what plots were from the comic and which ones weren't

watching the second ep right now and already even better than the pretty dope first ep

i don't think this episode reflected the comic; as i remember it, there was no "party" and definitely no white power guy.
this was a set piece ep and a little less successful in my eyes than the first one. Went fast though! At this rate, a six episode season isn't going to get past the first ten issues!

oh come on michael rooker vs. a guy in a kangol come on

this show should be called the walking been there done that

what does that even mean

My greatest hope for this show is that it will help take zombies back from the realm of the "zeitgeist" and especially the ironically cute and quaint, and make them horror again.

― kenan, Saturday, November 6, 2010 6:01 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

if anything this is going to hasten the gentrification of the dead. it'll do for zombies what dexter did for torture porn, i.e. normalize it for a mass audience.

did dexter normalize torture porn?

when housewives are kicking back and watching a serial killer carve up hogtied ppl on the regular, I'd say it did

indeed

hell, Dexter completely lost its torture porn edginess around season 3 anyway. i can't remember the last time we got a decent limb-sawing scene.

yeah i was gonna say i've been watching this current season and have yet to the visceralness everyone kept talking about

'The Zombies' by Donald Barthelme is a much funnier 'deconstruction' than the godawaful Shaun of the Dead:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EjWaGv5tE38C&pg=PA345&lpg=PA345&dq=the+zombies+donald+barthelme&source=bl&ots=OFeZoNS-OR&sig=DO_wVRDV80TXW-_wMe0T1akfTBU&hl=en&ei=v6XXTNy9DsGN4gb5n6CwBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCcQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false

i would say that that's a pretty funny story. not laugh out loud funny, but clever in the manner that seems so terribly appealing to people who enjoy feeling more clever than other people. ty

this one kinda made me long for the not-written-by-Frank-Darabont eps to come in the back half of this season.

You watch one of our comedies and you laugh your balls off. You watch a British comedy and you're like "Hmm. *haughty laugh*" It's like reading the New Yorker for two hours.

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srsly though i love barthelme and that stopped being funny once i got the joke by the second sentence imo

good second episode. cool to see laurie holden show up, i liked her in the shield.

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Can we talk for a minute about the zombies using rocks to break down the department store door? They can use tools, even rudimentary ones? I don't think I've ever seen that from zombies before.

Romero Zombies slowly gained the ability to organize themselves and use rudimentary tools iirc.

crazy racist way too OTT. some cheesy dialogue. still a lot of fun and a very quick hour.

i liked the distant rolling thunder throughout the episode leading up to the downpour.

xpost: first zombie in Night of the Living Dead uses a rock on the window of the car.

Ok, word. Just checking. Carry on.

first zombie in Night of the Living Dead uses a rock on the window of the car.

― circa1916, Monday, November 8, 2010 6:29 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

i love the idea that you effortlessly called this up from your infinite zombie knowledge brain

haha. more like i just watched it last week.

this is pretty good! kinda corny, but lots of fun. i'm glad they're already getting away from the (awful) comics.

my favorite moment in the comic is around like issue 40 when he literally has rick scream "ITS US! WE'RE THE WALKING DEAD!"

Oy

Francine: They're still here.
Stephen: They're after us. They know we're still in here.
Peter: They're after the place. They don't know why, they just remember. Remember that they want to be in here.
Francine: What the hell are they?
Peter: They're us.

I really dug the final shot. Took it to be "Alright, so - if you took zombies out of the equation, what would be really cool about there being no people around?"

I don't even remember the final shot

I really dug the final shot. Took it to be "Alright, so - if you took zombies out of the equation, what would be really cool about there being no people around?"

I will admit that this made the zombie apocalypse look incredibly appealing to me.

As a sidenote can I just...we were talking to a couple of friends about "Walking Dead" this weekend, they hadn't seen it but they kept saying "Well, if it's scary then I won't watch it. I like funny zombies."

Zombiests.

Actually I think they meant more they like Shaun of the Dead over something like Dawn of the Dead because there's humor but still. Zombies are cool. Don't they see?

I have to be for real here for a second: I am not watching this shit on Sunday nights anymore. My brain gets going too much with this show, and I never get a good night sleep. All thinking about "Did I lock the back door?" and "What if Rock Carrying Zombie says 'Fuck a Door. I'm a go straight through the picture window.'?" and "If there is a zombie apocalypse, do I go towards downtown LA, the desert, or the mountains? Because fuck the west side."

For me, the disturbing thing about a zombie apocalypse is not the zombies themselves, since they are massively improbable. What's not so improbable is the breakdown of every institution created to protect citizens from complete meltdown and Lord of the Flies shit. Who needs zombies when our power grid is so vulnerable and outdated?

Everything about a zombie apocalypse is cool. I would be fine if a reincarnated version or another dimension version of me gets to be part of such apocalypse. I don't think there is any way I'll stop watching this show at this point

i would just hope the zombie me wouldn't have back problems.

4.7 million viewers for the second episode. AMC has renewed it for a 13 episode 2nd season.

AMC has renewed it for a 13 episode 2nd season.

Score!

4.7 million viewers for the second episode.

Daaaaamn. That's a crazy number for cable.

Very happy to see them deviate from the funny books, even if it wasn't a great episode in itself.

Last shot is the freedom-porn of most post-apocalyptic fiction, innit? Aside from the vampire-zombies of I Am Legend, I thought Will Smith's life looked pretty nice (at least for a short time).

Really, I thought Will Smith's life in that movie was depressing as shit

Last shot is the freedom-porn of most post-apocalyptic fiction, innit?

Kept expecting a zombie to pop up from the back seat.

Does the guy playing Shane remind anyone else of a young Fred Ward?

http://www.bscreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Jon-Bernthal-walking-dead.jpg
http://www.sonyclassics.com/masked/288x216stills/fw_full.jpg

Running around Time Square hunting deer, chilling out to some Bob with your awesome German Shepherd. I mean, yeah, the complete lack of human companionship would be rough after a while - but for about a month having an entire city to yourself would be A+++++++.