The Walking Dead

This Halloween I did something I had never done before. Not go trick or treating. However I did watch the world premier of The Walking Dead on AMC. Oh my that was amazing. Let me warn you right now, this is a violent seres. The amount of blood and gore is disgusting. However there are many other reasons for watching this show.

The story is simple yet effective. The writing staff does such a good job of keeping things real, dramatic and scary without it becoming cheesy. From the blocking to the actual duologue, its hard to not believe whats happening on screen. The cast of characters really helps the mood and they each fill their role perfectly. I'm even enjoying the slight mid-western accent the main character (Rick) has. I thought the cast and writing aspects of the seres are amazing.

The Zombies in the show are scary realistic. If zombies were real, I'm sure thats what they would look like. From the gory and bloody realistic flesh wounds to the look in their eyes and animistic actions, its hard to believe they used to be human. The make up team working on

this show does such a fantastic job. In fact there is a contest going on where you can win a chance to have a "stagger on role" where you get to be a zombie in the show. I think that would be tons of fun. Though I.won a contest when I was at PAX earlier this year where I'm going to be a zombie in their video game. I'm waiting for that e-mail guys! But I digress. The zombies in this show are so amazingly real and I cant wait for the rest of the zombies.

As you have probably noticed from my writing so far, the show is incredibly realistic. From the sad family troubles to the bloody and gory realism about life, its hard to not look at this show and not believe its real. Now obviously zombies are not real, but the way they are portrayed in this show makes it really realistic. If there was a zombie outbreak, I feel this is one of the most realistic possibilities for that doomsday scenario. From the easiness of humans to revert to primal beings (willing to loot and ignore laws), to the difference of fighting to survive/giving up easily, to the zombies feasting on the flesh of the living, The Walking Dead gives a realistic image as to the possibility of Zombies.

Overall The Walking Dead is one of the best TV shows I have watched in a long time and if you can hold your lunch, this is definitely a show for you. If you enjoy zombies, this is the show for you. If you just like amazing story and/or blood and gore this is the show for you. I will continue to watch this show because it is just so amazing. I can see some flaws, but I wont talk about those ha! I hope this helped form your decision about this show. Thanks for reading and feel free to comment!

-Zam