A few days ago The Walking Dead premiered, a zombie series set in the comic of the same name that, given what has been seen, promises to be one of the sensations of the new season. As readers of the blog know, zombies seem like a fascinating and fun topic to me, so the premiere of this series was burned into my agenda (Espoiler TV).
The series belongs to the American network AMC, creator among others of the magnificent Mad Men (I donāt know why I havenāt talked about it yet) so quality was assured since it was announced.
The first chapter, which lasts more than an hour, puts us in the situation and introduces us to the main characters. It begins when a police officer falls into a coma after being wounded in a shooting and when he wakes up he discovers that there is no one left in the hospital he is in, at least no one alive. It seems as if there had been a war and everything is destroyed, with corpses in the hallways and of course, the occasional zombie. The how or why of the situation is unknown, but it doesnāt matter because Rick Grimes, the police officer, has only one objective: to find his missing wife and son.
With this preamble we are presented with The Walking Dead, which from what we have seen seems to aim to combine gore, zombies and personal stories of characters in the right measure, without abusing any of them and leaving aside the comic part of the situation, which is non-existent in this case, recognizing the zombies as unfortunate and sick people and trying to make the viewer feel compassion for them (and it succeeds).
Initially the first season is planned in 6 episodes, and the fact that the pilot episode has managed to be the most watched premiere of the year in the United States is just one more excuse to watch it because it is practically guaranteed a second season (this scares me a little because it can cause a loss of quality).