A few weeks ago I read that the Walking Dead, a comic book that I had discovered last year, was being made into a TV series. In fact, it was getting shown about a month later. It looked interesting, with a cast including Egg from that awful 90s lawyer drama thing."This Life"? Never liked it, although I think it was aimed at my demographic.
I'm happy to say that's not the case for "Walking Dead". I enjoyed it. It's a decent adaptation of the comic book. The effects aren't top notch (the torso only zombie early on is clearly a bloke buried below the waist the first time we see it), but they're acceptable on the whole. I did notice the curious American habit of being totally happy with seeing graphic violence, but not happy with seeing women's boobs (or maybe American women shag with their bra on?)
The story opens very like "28 Days Later" (or even "Day of the Triffids" if you like), with the hero, a police man, waking in hospital, alone, not quite sure what's going on. In short, the perfect vehicle to tell the zompocalypse story to the audience, via a survivor who he happens across. Every hero needs a quest, and this one decides that his family has survived and he'll go to find them. Any more and I'd spoil it.
If you aren't bored of zombies yet, give it a go: you should enjoy it.
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