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

In any case this is powers of ten better than Rubicon and is thus far the most fun horror tv show i've seen.

I have no problem watching them smear zombie guts all over themselves but a line like "if I ever find my family I’m going to tell them about wayne" really makes me cringe

― death panel of the mods (Edward III)

would be awesome if a couple episodes ahead the sheriff goes back to his tent for a moment of peace, looks around, and opens up a scrapbook he's been compiling filled with the driver's licenses of all the zombies he's killed.

and then when he finally reunites with his family they spend long nights by the fire, paging through daddy's scrapbook of dead zombie licenses

meanwhile shane has a similar scrapbook of all the women he's slept with who have dead husbands.

some crossover there no doubt

it is pretty brutal isn't it? thought them smearing guts all over themselves and hacking up that body was pretty full on for tv...

i've been dreaming about corpse mutilation on tv for years now

Anyone who saw the, uh, bathtub sequence from Breaking Bad S1 will know that AMC isn't shy about gore.

Can anyone confirm/deny that this is only a six episode season? I'll be super bummed if it is. Need something to watch on Sundays to fill the Breaking Bad void.

Confirm, it's six eps.
Did not know this: "The series is completely shot on 16 mm film."
That's kinda rare these days, right?

Women should be way more offended by sub-Sex and the City (bad enough as it is) vibrator talk than any 'can't turn off the light' metaphor.

dopey dialogue aside, this looks like a good six episode/issue arc; ep 3 was an improvement on ep 2 for my money

It went quickly despite very little happening. Been watching Boardwalk Empire after this in the previous two weeks, but switched the order around this time and the Walking Dead didn't come off as well. :/

yeah, the ladeez scrubbing clothes and giggling about vibrators was ugh. still really enjoying this despite the occasional cringe-inducing scene. it goes by quickly, i find myself a little bummed when it's over.

I'm still an ep behind but the hacking up zombie & covering themselves with gore scene was lol gross.

I had just finished dinner & felt a mite queasy after that

haven't seen the third episode, but watched the second last night. disappointed at the absence of: inventive special effects, interesting characters, the sorts of things i like paying attention to. dull as dirt, grodyness of wiping oneself down with rotting guts aside.

Don't expect the characters to get any more interesting in the third episode.

I think I'm done. A good survival story requires someone to root for and I really don't care whether Racist Guy, Sexist Guy(s), Woman Who's Cheating On Her Husband, Woman Who's Being Beaten By Her Husband, Or Woman Who Likes Mermaids makes it.

I missed the first episode, but after watching the most recent two last night I'm totally pumped about this show. Love that it's only 6 episodes this season, too.

Ratings actually up on last week to 5.1 million. Skewing male significantly, with 2.1 million of the 3.3 million demo being of that gender.

I wish the zombies had eaten officer-wife-cheater and Mrs-Husband-cheater when they were screwing in the woods.

however now we know that she wasn't really cheating because she was told her husband was dead! not sure i like that explanation, though, since it makes shane less of a sympathetic character and more of a clear villain.

I'm loving this. Most of the complaints are pretty valid, but this show's still entertaining the hell out of me. Shane's shaping up to be the most interesting/sympathetic character, which is kind of surprising.

there is still time for doggy style sex in the woods with zombies running rampant throughout.

Yeah that didn't sit well with me either omar... I hope they don't go the route of making Shane an unambiguous villain like in the comic. That line felt like it was stuffed in to remind the audience that this is a bad guy

"screw the zombies im taking you balls deep"

What's going on with Shane's nose? Is he an ex-boxer?

Lol Chris

we could tell that sex was unholy because he was doing her from behind

zombie cock

I just started reading the comic. Dialog is pretty dire...but I'll hang

"my inlaws live in Atlanta...that's only a 5hr drive from here. That's probablywhere my wife went"

I'm going to shoot in the face

Lol Chris i love how easy it is to get you to work blue. It's awesome.

i can sort of see the lack of nuance people complain about, this isn't mad men or breaking bad, and yet i have found each episode exciting from start to finish. i guess it works the plot tension well and it's got good drama and action. character wise i agree nobody is entirely sympathetic, but the group dynamics are interesting.

Agreed. I really do enjoy the show a lot.

hey racist, saw through the rusty bolt you're cuffed to and keep the hand next time.

oh wait next time you'll only have one hand. good luck running a hack saw with your teeth, zombie chow.

^I was also wondering why he didn't do that.

kerm OTM + why make/keep 3 enemies (racist, his bro and fat pummelled guy) when you could kill them? Getting more into Lost territory and too much lipstick on officer friendly since episode 1. Still <3 this show.

i assume the hacksaw was too dull for metal, but sharp enough for flesh and bone. like that Danny Glover movie.

Maybe he gnawed it off like a coyote. "Aron Ralston ain't got nuthin on me!"

I figured it was a "Mad Max" rip. The zombies were banging at the door and he panicked. "The chain in those handcuffs is high-tensile steel. It'd take you ten minutes to hack through it with this. Now, if you're lucky, you could hack through your ankle in five minutes." Etc.

Anyway, I'll watch this show, but this was my least favorite episode. The redneck color is grating on me a lot -Atlanta's not exactly hillbilly country, so I hope they diversify a bit - and when I mentioned the rampant sexism to my wife her reply was "good, I thought it was just me - is this show set in the '40s or something?" This is the first ep that at least alludes to the "woman, get me a beer" vibe, what with Laurie Holden's college educated character and all, and I know the comic quickly evolves into a more equitable division of labor situation, but still.

crucial to remember the areas around Atlanta, but yeah, it's still got a hillbilly vibe.

the show is hardly great television, but it works well enough that I'm happy to run with it, especially as there's not much else on at the moment.

I think there is plenty of hillbillies in some parts around Atlanta... it's just that I'm accustomed to not living in those parts and the main metro areas aren't redneck at all. However, I remember being at I-Hop in the past year and overhearing some older ladies talking about how one of them got physically abused by her husband - I guess it happens

are* plenty

feel like i should be loving this show, but i'm barely even liking it. i think i'm done with TWD. first episode was underwhelming, and the deviations from the cast and plot of the graphic novel aren't adding up to something strong enough in its own right to sustain my interest. pacing in the third episode was incredibly indulgent for a season with a six-episode run; wall to wall on-the-nose dialog was even less forgivable. okay, i'll admit that i was happy when Norman Reedus showed up. but his character (and his brother's) can hardly be considered inspired additions to Kirkman's stock ensemble.

when do we get to the prison? do we ever?

isn't it pretty plausible that in the zombie apocalypse people have been migrating around, grouping together with people from different areas? and maybe that more of the survivors are from the rural areas than the big cities? (xpost)

good point. and rural folk have guns

much more plausible that kirkman and kirkman-ite writing team just paint with broad brushes

that too. but all the OH JEEZ ATLANTA IS NOT REDNECKY stuff is a little weird to argue about.

tru