The Walking Dead

Our newest show, and when I say ours I mean mine as the wife will not have anything to do with it, is The Walking Dead. When this series appeared last fall I had little interest. The commercials made it look like it was more zombie than story.

Still the reviews were very strong and when the first episode debuted to ratings that broke records I wondered if I was missing something. So I started watching.

In watching it becomes quickly apparent that the show is not so much as a zombie show as one of many aployptic shows that have come and gone that happens to also feature zombies.

The cast is not full of people you know. Andrew Lincoln plays Sherriff's Deputy Rick Grimes, as close to a traditional hero as you might find. The show starts strong. A member of a group of survivors is chained to a pipe on a roof in Zombie infested Atlanta. His brother, who as the show goes on becomes more and more likable, is not too happy about this and blames the Sherriff.

Still as time goes on the group has to get through obstacle after obstacle. Season 1 ends with the group learning that the CDC in Atlanta will not save them. Thus far in Season 2 we have lost a little girl in the woods and had a boy shot by accident. On the plus side more survivors who seem to be good folks have been found. With eleven more episodes scheduled for this season much is to be determined.

The story is strong, the characters have depth. For me some of the characters are a bit much, the Sherriff speaks too eloquently about his feelings, his wife has conflicts of her own and the blonde girl who just wants her gun needs to settle down but overall this show is full on great.

The zombies are not that scary,,more like comic book gore.