The Walking Dead Season 2 — my opinion and review
The Walking Dead is a TV show based on a group of survivors during a zombie apocalypse. The second season recently started on AMC and the intertubes really need to hear my opinion on it.
The Walking Dead is, contrary to standard zombie stories, not exclusively about gore and scaring the viewers. A lot of time is spent on the individual character's back story and on solving problems the group has. Of course, a TV show like this has to watch out that it doesn't turn into As The World Turns with zombies. In my opinion they got close into turning into a soap opera during the second half of season 1 and I was close to not liking it anymore. But they managed to pick up the pace again and air a great first episode for the second season. They took some time to develop interpersonal-relationships but I never felt that the episode was slowing down.
One of the main problems the group has in the first episode is that they lost track of one of the characters during a zombie 'attack', normally I hate stories about finding people that are in danger, stories like that feel forced and unoriginal. But for some reason they executed it well and I had a great time watching the episode. The first episode had some horror clichés and a few inconsistencies but overall these points are minor to the overall quality of the episode.
What dissapoints me is that they introduced Lennie James' character Morgan Jones during the first season but we haven't seen him back yet. I doubt we'll see him again but it annoys me a little.
If you like zombie or post-apocalypse movies I highly recommend The Walking Dead. The first episode of season 2 definitely gave me the impression that they're doing a great job.
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