If you don't watch much cable television you may not have heard about a new show that features ZOMBIES. You probably did. IT has been advertised everywhere, and with a Halloween night premiere you had to have been ready for The Walking Dead pilot.
Created from a series of graphic novels, it is an hour long weekly show on AMC that probably has a few skeptics. How can they possibly have a show about a Zompie Apocalypse every week? If you are familiar with the novels you know exactly how they will, and you were pumped. All you needed was to see that the production values were going to be high, and the actors weren't horrible. Both passed.
Combine this show with Dexter on Sunday nights and you won't find more violence. This show is raw. There isn't anything hidden in the blood lust department. The opening scenes alone should have told you that this wasn't for the squeemish. Seeing a girl likely no older than 10 years old shot in the head in the first 10 minutes is disturbing.
OF course some will say it pulled from stories like 28 Days Later where a guy popped out of a hospital bed looking for anyone in nursing scrubs to give him a clue, and then wandered out in the streets to see it deserted. This show has way more going on than that, and if you can stomach the blood and gore, we may be lookign at another hit for AMC. It was the best pilot since Lost.
