As the Halloween season has come and gone, only one thing made this holiday weekend more fantastic than an unlimited supply of Almond Joys and Mounds is The Walking Dead on AMC. AMC has graced us with top notch entertainment such as Mad Men, and Breaking Bad. The story centers around Richard Grimes who wakes up after being in a coma for an undisclosed amount of time only to find that the zombie apocalypse has struck Georgia and there is no one "alive" to be found. His home is completely deserted and he goes on a mission to find survivors and of course his family if they're still alive.
In the season premiere (90 minutes) it racked up 5.3 million viewers in the heavily coveted 18-49 year old demographic and I haven't read a bad review about it yet. I had heard of this show back over the summer when Norman Reedus signed on to it. I found out via Twitter. He will appear in the third episode and have a regular role. I pray to God he doesn't die anytime soon. I have a tendency to pick a favorite for every movie or series and he always ends up dying. Reedus' character is Daryl Dixon, a redneck with a pension for hunting with a crossbow. Needless to say, I am overwhelming excited for this.
The Walking Dead is based off of the graphic novel series by Robert Kirkman. He does an excellent job in the graphic novels illustrating the grit and rawness of the situation Grimes and his brood are put through. As far as book to screen adaptation, even the actors that worked on the set marveled at how the sets looked just like the graphic novels. For example, the downtown set of Atlanta, is distraught with wrecked cars, an "abandoned" army tank, and just flat out destruction. It was like looking at it straight out of the novel.
I have high hopes for this television series. In a world overtaken by spunky chorus kids, over-indulged adolescents, and pregnant teenagers, this seems to be something of good quality, and I can't wait to see all the gory details.
In the season premiere (90 minutes) it racked up 5.3 million viewers in the heavily coveted 18-49 year old demographic and I haven't read a bad review about it yet. I had heard of this show back over the summer when Norman Reedus signed on to it. I found out via Twitter. He will appear in the third episode and have a regular role. I pray to God he doesn't die anytime soon. I have a tendency to pick a favorite for every movie or series and he always ends up dying. Reedus' character is Daryl Dixon, a redneck with a pension for hunting with a crossbow. Needless to say, I am overwhelming excited for this.
The Walking Dead is based off of the graphic novel series by Robert Kirkman. He does an excellent job in the graphic novels illustrating the grit and rawness of the situation Grimes and his brood are put through. As far as book to screen adaptation, even the actors that worked on the set marveled at how the sets looked just like the graphic novels. For example, the downtown set of Atlanta, is distraught with wrecked cars, an "abandoned" army tank, and just flat out destruction. It was like looking at it straight out of the novel.
I have high hopes for this television series. In a world overtaken by spunky chorus kids, over-indulged adolescents, and pregnant teenagers, this seems to be something of good quality, and I can't wait to see all the gory details.
