In a niche-ified era, every niche can be more, and more extremely, itself. If I can see unvarnished darkness in the world of video games, or movies, or novels, I expect to be able to see it in TV too.
It was, maybe, another dark, brutal, popular cable drama— Breaking Bad —that put this modern mindset best. In an age of extremes, no one wants to settle for half-measures. Contact us at letters time. By James Poniewozik. Related Stories. Already a print subscriber? Go here to link your subscription. Need help? Visit our Help Center. I loved that he was this closed-off guy with a big heart who just wanted to try and find some way to help without getting too close.
I could understand why he was doing it. But by God did he annoy me in the later seasons. All they did was make him grunt and groan and take away any character aspect that we all liked about him. The same goes for many of the other characters as well. For so long, they were making such terrible decisions and I felt that we had truly lost the group of survivors we all became close with at the beginning of The Walking Dead.
That was what made the show so good, not the zombies around them but the people fighting back against them. In the more recent seasons, though, they really dig deep back into these characters that we adore and give them stories that are some of their best. One of the most recent episodes covered a major character development for Daryl, Michonne has become a seriously badass woman who has the best heart in the world — I even learned to love Carol , because, for a long time, I hated all the decisions she was making.
I feel like I mentioned this earlier, but in the earlier seasons of The Walking Dead, there were so many episodes that felt like they should not have been there. I hope that the last season will provide just as much action, story, and character development as the last seasons have.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan's Negan is a great villain but he's not enough to keep you interested. Let's hope the next season delivers some of the action they've been promising and carries on from the momentum of the last episode.
Review of Season Eight: Season 8 is unfortunately just as problematic as the last. It's now all-out war with Negan and his crew, which is more exciting, but the show suffers from poor writing, a lack of continuity and detail, and too many filler episodes where nothing happens.
I still love the action and certain set-pieces and sub-plots, but too many characters remain one-dimensional and the show is middling as a result. Let's hope things get back on track for the next series. Review of Season Nine: And so the quality continues to drop. Rick's departure is handled weirdly, the time jumps are off-putting and the new characters completely uninteresting.
The zombie action feels tired and there's very little in the way of suspense from the new baddies compare this with Negan's introduction. Negan's the only character with depth on the show now, and it's a struggle to keep watching. I have to be honest i was stunned at just how much i enjoyed this, been a while since i can say i'm impatient for part 2 of anything, the first episode was captivating.
Big big fan of Andrew Lincoln, quite a surprise to hear him with an American accent but i think he pulls it off well enough. True enough there were a few leaky points, like why was he left untouched in an unlocked hospital room but who cares. The scene when he walks out of the hospital past all the dead bodies and empty streets, wow, what a piece of brilliance.
The effects were great, wouldn't recommend anyone having a kebab while watching it though :- Update, , I'm not surprised it's still going, and I'm looking forward to the introduction of Samantha Morton. It has varied in quality since the first series, but it's still a great watch. Rick Grimes Andrew Lincoln awakes from a coma to find that the world has ended, and they are now in the midst of a zombie Holocaust.
Where is his wife? Where is his son? Where is anybody? He must press on, surviving in a world that seems to offer no reason to live. I do not need to say how great "The Walking Dead" is.
The critics have chimed in, the show comes from Frank Darabont and Gale Anne Hurd, both legendary in the horror and science fiction field.
And the original comic the show is based on? Possibly the most popular and critically acclaimed comic of the past decade. I admit I was hesitant about the show -- how many episodes can you make about fighting zombies? After one or two episodes, you are bound to run out of original takes on a tired genre, right? Not here. And the reason is simple: the show is not about zombies at all, even if they are constantly in the background.
At the heart of the show is how people interact with each other when society breaks down. How do people work together for a common goal when they would otherwise rather punch their cohort in the face? And there are issues that remain constant, even when society disappears: infidelity, love, trust.
There is the practical and philosophical question of what is real now: money has no value. Is a marriage real or a canceled government contract? What good is it being a police officer when you no longer have a state to work for or laws to uphold?
The whole "game of life" is changed, and you better learn to adapt quickly. The cast is fantastic, with a mixture of genre favorites and some more or less unknowns.
Jon Bernthal, who I do not know, is Shane Walsh, possibly the most complex character on the show -- he is both the protagonist's best friend and his biggest interference depending on the day and time.
His motives are clear to the viewer, but not always to his friends. Sarah Wayne Callies is Lori Grimes, another complex character with a secret.
I personally think Callies is a poor actress who exaggerates her emotions, and is the weak part of casting, but fans of "Prison Break" may be glad to see her. Steven Yeun, as Glenn the Pizza Guy, is the strongest part of the cast, and the one character viewers will look forward to seeing, as he is the only comic relief you will get in this post-apocalyptic world.
And Michael Rooker, who is always great, and took the horror world by story as Henry in "Portrait of a Serial Killer". How well the show will hold up remains to be seen, with only six episodes down and countless more to come. But with the intricate characters, plenty of open-ended plot lines, and dynamic cast and crew connected with this project, it is sure to maintain a level of greatness for the foreseeable future.
An occasional theme in popular culture is a post-apocalyptic world, and how people try to survive in such a world. This is how I interpret "The Walking Dead". The first episode reminded me of "Day of the Triffids" a man waking up in a hospital and finding the place a mess.
Beyond that, the issue is how people manage to work together - assuming that they even attempt to do so - to make their way in a world that isn't like the one that they've always known. In zombie-themed movies, the zombies are usually the coolest characters; it must be fun to play them. Here the zombies called walkers are background characters. The main topic is whether or not the people can work together. There are instances when the people can be just as dangerous to each as the zombies are to any of them.
Frank Darabont first came to the world's attention when he directed "The Shawshank Redemption". He then directed "The Green Mile". This latest effort is another feather in his cap.
Having just binge-watched the first season, I'm eager to watch the rest. It is one show that's full of life pun intended. If you are a fan of the Living Dead films from George A. Romero, or perhaps you watched the series Dead Set, then this is for you, from creator Frank Darabont, director of The Shawshank Redemption. It is basically an extended zombie movie as a television series, like many of those films it doesn't have a story as such, it is the simple survival of the fittest premise.
The main characters are a gang of survivors, and their leader becomes police officer Rick Grimes Love Actually's Andrew Lincoln , who reunites with his wife and, for ages unaware that his wife Lori Sarah Wayne Callies was sleeping with his partner Shane Walsh Jon Bernthal. It is simple viewing, they are surviving in the now dangerous world surrounded by the living walking dead zombies, that they call the "walkers", and they grab weapons and whatever they can to kill them.
The creatures can obviously only be killed with a strike to the head, they are attracted by loud noise and the smell of living flesh, and obviously you become one with a simple bite or scratch from one of them. Its reasonable acting, the special effects with make up, lots of blood spill and weapons use makes for some good viewing, it is certainly a worthwhile television horror drama.
Very good! This exciting TV series results to one of the highest earning horror movies of the last years , full of eerie scenes with zombies and trilling events.
The Walking Dead, based on the comic book series written by Robert Kirkman out of the 20 characters at the camp, only 10 are actually in the comic , these are Rick, Lori, Carl, Shane, Carol, Sophia, Jim, Dale, Andrea, Amy and Glenn and published by Image Comics, tells the story of the months and years that follow after a zombie apocalypse.
A police officer named Rick Grimes Andrew Lincoln has been in a coma for several months wakes up and discovers that the world has been taken over by zombies. He heads for Atlanta to search for his family. It follows a group of survivors, led by police officer Rick along with his wife and son , who travel in search of a safe and secure home.
The series goes on to explore the challenges of life in a world overrun by zombies who take a toll on the survivors, and sometimes the interpersonal conflicts present a greater danger to their continuing survival than the zombies that roam the country. Over time, the characters are changed by the constant exposure to death and some grow willing to do anything to survive. This magnificent TV series packs noisy action , intense drama , violence , enjoyable relationship among motley characters and lots of blood and gore.
It's a solid series , a terror story plenty of suspense , restless horror, and in cinematographic style. It deals with a merciless fight for survival in which some survivors struggle to fend off the zombie hordes ; as well as competing with other survivor groups who are prepared to do whatever it takes to survive. The main roles are well played by Andrew Lincoln as Rick who attempts to survive at whatever cost , his wife played by Sarah Wayne Callies , Rick's son Carl performed by Chandler Riggs as a kid become into a violent Zombie-killer , the attractive couple performed by Lauren Cohan and Steven Yuen , Laurie Holden as Andrea , the swordswoman Danai Gurira as Michonne , the sympathetic teen acted by Emily Kinney and special mention to Norman Reedus as tough Daryl Dixon who is always wielding his crossbow and ready to kill Zombies.
The flesh-eating zombies appearance deliver the goods plenty of screams, shocks and tension. The horror moments are compactly made and fast moving. Mostly set at a farm and in prison where take place attacks by starving zombies and by a nasty Mayor well played by David Morrissey. As the prison set took about two months to build. The Zombies are well carried out , excellent make-up and acting , in fact actors who played zombies had to go through zombie school to learn how to walk and move like zombies.
However , the word "zombie" is never used. The zombies are either referred to as "Walkers", "Geeks", "Skanks" ; in season 2 the terms "Roamers", "Lurkers", and to Hershel, "People", and "Lame Brains" are added ; in season 3 "Biters" was introduced to the lexical , for this season , the make up team used darker skin tones for the Biters to show further decay as time has progressed.
Rating : Above average series. Well, as a zombie aficionado, then what can I say about this series that haven't already been said? Nothing, I am quite sure. So what is it that makes me all wired up and excited about this?
Well, there are multiple things for that reason. The first and foremost of reasons is, of course, it is a series with zombies! Secondly, it is a series that is heavily character driven.
The story is solid and great, with some nice plot twists and events along the way, but what really makes this show stand out is the depths of the characters in the series.
These are characters that you bond with, because you get to know most of them quite well, so you grow with them and come to love some and hate others; for reasons that is mostly well qualified. The characters are well developed and have interesting personalities, and the chemistry good and bad between the various characters is all helping to move the series along and keeps you coming back to find out what happens next. But of course, it wouldn't be a zombie series without zombies, obviously!
And the zombies in "The Walking Dead" are quite interesting, especially as they are in the realm of the Romero style zombies; slow moving, staggering and weak, but becomes ultimately dangerous when they herd together in groups. These are as zombies are supposed to be, and not be all agile, athletic and be mutated to a stage where it stopped being fun a long time ago.
And then, of course, there is the zombie make-up and prosthetics. With a man like Greg Nicotero on the job, then you know what you are getting. And boy, does he deliver in this series.
The zombies are all unique with great personal touches to each individual zombie, which just makes it all that much more of a treat to look at the various states of decay, decomposition and damage these walkers are in and have sustained. There is plenty of bloods and gore in the series as well, to keep up ghastly gore-hounds happy.
But as I mentioned just above, this series is driven by a solid foundation upon the development and interaction of the characters. But season eight broke me. I can tell you exactly when I bailed. But the character had grown in complexity as Riggs had grown in years — he was, after all, just 10 years old when the show debuted.
When the time came to kill him off, it felt like a desperate move. Prominent characters had met their end before, yes. A reason to extend his run, at the expense of the show. Yeah, sorry about the Trash Hipsters and the introduction of the anaemic Oceanside plot arc! Look at Carl! He dead!
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