Any wistful Mad Men fan WHO Turned AMC on Sunday night thinking, Perhaps, That There Might Be an MM RERUN, or Perhaps an hour of Halloween Outtakes in Which Sally Draper takes a hatchet to her Mommy Dearest, May Have Been startled to Come upon the opening scene of The Walking Dead: In an effort Thurs Communicate the kind of show you're in for, Walking Dead HAD ITS hero, Sheriff Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), shoot a little-girl zombie in the head. If you did not get Drawn in by That splatter-shock, This Was Not Clearly the show for you.
The Walking Dead, based on Robert Kirkman's comic books, takes the standard modern zombie trope-urban survivors of a zombie invasion-and faces down the problem with turning Notion That enthusiasm for a weekly series. The challenge was To Make running away from zombies (called the "Walkers" here) engrossing every week. Under the guidance of Executive Producers Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) and Gale Ann Hurd (The Terminator), Walking Dead found a solution. The focus shifts to the Various Humans still extant, and folds in elements from TV shows Ranging from Thurs Lost Survivor, To Make You Care About WHO These People Are and How They eke out an Existence. (And the use of The Walker Brothers' 1966 version of the great of "The Sun Is not Gonna Shine Any More" in the trailer Gives me the confidence Filmmakers That Really Know How to Work a Metaphor. In Addition to the song ... I mean Itself , there's a reason They chose the version of the Walkers, Instead of Frank Valli and the Four Seasons.)
Thus the Sheriff Rick is searching for his wife, Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) and son, Carl (Chandler Riggs), who've found "some approximation of safety with a group of survivors include WHO, Rick's former deputy, Shane (Jon Bernthal). Uh-oh: Believing Rick dead, Lori has Taken up with Shane. There's also a ragtag group of folks who'll Develop Their own subplots.
There were striking images scattered Throughout The Walking Dead, and, encouragingly, weren't They simply lifted from the (fine, smart, despairing) Kirkman comic books. There's the Sheriff Rick riding a horse through a Blasted Atlanta - shot evoked the old Westerns and old horror movies while adding a modern air of Desolation. The Other was the final of the pull-back shot of the zombies swarming all over the tank in Which Rick has found temporary safety. The distance in the camera placement Reduced The Zombies Thurs Even More inhuman Proportions; They were more like ants Swaddling a piece of food. Inside, we'd just seen Rick shoot a zombie who'd Been sitting next to him. The Combination of blood spray and the result of his unthinking reflex - That gun-shot made a terrible, Vibrating Noise That momentarily caused Rick To Lose his hear - did a lot To Make The Walking Dead thrillingly frightening.
Much as I enjoyed Walking Dead, I have a small prediction: I think the pilot will score very good ratings for AMC - first, Because the show has lots of good hype, second, Because it's Halloween and what could be better programming, and the third to , Because it doesn't take a helluva a lot of Viewers Thurs Qualify as a hit with AMC. (A couple Million Will Be a Roaring Success.) But: That I predict ratings will fall on This Week Because AMC Many Viewers who like Mad Men and Breaking Bad will look at this and say, "Um, ick." I think AMC has Thurs import an Almost Entirely new audience Thurs ITS channel for Walking Dead to be a long-running success. I hope my prediction is wrong, I Also Hope Walking Dead Can Sustain the ITS quality.
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