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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afcWyJhsBXo&feature=player_embedded

^^^a lot better show this way tbh

one minute of zombie death in 300 mins of zombie TV = fail.

do we have a thread on the killing or AMC's versh?

almost feel like we should put it in the Spring 2011 TV premieres thread, but it also feels like the kind of thing that's gonna need its own.

theres gonna be an amc version? cool!

I started a thread for it.

http://www.tvtonight.com.au/wp-content/uploads/wdead2.jpg

this was pretty bad

i've only seen two eps so far, not loving or hatin just yet.

i especially like how the pretty blonde lady has someone to force her not to kill herself at the end, but no one bothers to try to stop the middle-aged black lady.

Well she wasn't from the X-Files after all

i kind of wish that each season was six episodes, and at the end of each season all the characters would have been killed off, and then the next season was a whole new set of characters in some other location dealing with the zombies in their own way. but they still all end up dying eventually.

i wish someone would argue with me about this show being shitty for the next half-hour i'm stuck at work

I disagree that it is shitty because shit can be used as manure and is therefore useful.

i will say that it looked really nice and the effects/makeup were great. everything else about it was meh to ugh

after thinking about it more i suppose this show is "ok" but all the best zombie stories i've seen aren't just scary and grisly but pretty funny, too. this show seems afflicted with that self-serious kinda grim determined soap opera-y march through a storyline that a lot of tv shows have, like the kind of shit that the best shows avoid by injecting humor into the proceedings (sopranos, the wire, justified, etc.) it's not really loose or bizarre enough imo and the humor that exists isn't really ingrained, it's forced. a grim show can work, i mean the shield wasn't exactly a barrel of laughs, but the style was pretty loose and the acting was just merciless and out there, i think that helped a lot. this show has a pretty stoic tone and style and kinda hemmed-in acting and idk, i quit after 4 episodes. maybe 3.

it reminds me of how prison break was this show with a pretty interesting storyline lure but oh so serious about it, increasingly so after time, and it just wasn't any fun.

omar, you missed the worst episode.

that's a good point. but they didn't really bring anything original to the table before either. they would create these setups we've seen hundreds of times in zombie movies and then spend a really long time on them like they were really interesting ideas. the characters were all pretty blank and/or stereotyped. the dialogue was empty. there wasn't very much action or suspense. so there wasn't any good reason to keep watching.

i feel like every time i see or read something zombie-related these days the creator(s) are wishing desperately to be original but at the same time any deviation from the formula seems anathema for them and (they fear) the fans, so it creates this world that looks like any other zombie world alternate universe just with different signifiers here and there to differentiate it from romero or w/e. like on paper it sounds like a zombie fan's ideal tv show but they hit everything square on the nose and it's just zzzz....

i feel like i wish i'd seen the whole season so i could talk about this more. esp this worst episode!

omar that's pretty otm

Frank 'Majestic' Darabont stepping down, possibly quitting the show altogether: http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/frank-darabont-stepping-down-as-walking-dead-showrunner

good

Yeah, good. I predict a rise in gormless zombie attacks and less purgatory portent, but that's good, too.

yeah any take on this material seems more interesting than darabont's tbh

The writing in the comic is pretty dire, though. I don't know how anyone could have expected something magical.

Comic>show, so whatever it does wrong is more right.

AMC budgetary public nightmare continues

They did record a profit for the 1st quarter though.

AMC seems to be appallingly run.

this article was written by darabont's publicists. its all UNNAMED SOURCES SAID FRANK IS A GENIUS AND AMC IS A BUNCH OF SHIT-HEELS.

lol:

There also have been no public comments from the cast, and a source with knowledge of the situation says AMC has been "terrorizing" them and their representatives to discourage them from speaking out on Darabont's behalf. "They're scared," confirms another insider. "They're on a zombie show. They are all really easy to kill off."

AHAHAHA

sorry, i got excited

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSdfiARf1v0&feature=related

AMC continues their sad descent from credibility by picking up a live Walking Dead discussion show

what a terrible concept

That's so stupid. It's like adapting an internet forum to the screen.

Watch What Happens Live...for a zombie show? Isn't everybody going to sound like Chris Farley's interviewer character from SNL?

if they did that for breaking bad I might watch it

Could've come in handy for Lost! Which obviously is not AMC, but still.

i mean bbc has been doing this kinda thing for how long now with "confidential"

not reinventing the wheel

Do you mean Doctor Who Confidential? Those are just making-of features.

BBC did a discussion show during the first couple of seasons of 24. It was utter trash but oddly watchable.

Could've come in handy for Lost! Which obviously is not AMC, but still.

I would have enjoyed a Lost one, but this show isn't really complex enough that it needs a discussion show.

These just make me feel like they will be television show versions of TRL

"OMG I LOVE WALKING DEAD SOOOOO MUCH, ZOMBEES RULE!!!!11 CAN I SAY HI 2 MY BESTIE LAURA Z?/?!???!?!?"

Freeway scene might be the best set piece this show has done. Still not convinced, even if it broke every cable record or whatever.

I barely breathed while they were under the cars! I re-watched and it wasn't the least bit scary - definitely a suspense-based thriller.

Probably the best episode so far, I'm hoping things continue to pick up this season. I think the weakest link is still the cast, not a single one of them really does a convincing job of selling their character imho. I get that is kinda secondary to OMG gore and zombies, but its the only thing keeping this from being an A+ show.

Shocked that it broke like every cable drama record ever though.

wow, really? I couldn't really watch this past the kid running back to the family after hiding in a tree and sheriff yokum beating the heads of zombies in. The show just sadly isn't that good.