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Showing posts with label The Walking Dead Season 3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Walking Dead Season 3. Show all posts
The Walking Dead Returns....and it is as good as ever.
Honestly at this point there is really no reason to go and ever see a Zombie movie in the movie theaters anymore. No movie can capture the level of emotion and tension and back story and character development that this great TV show has now achieved. It took me awhile, but this show continues to grow in its greatness and its audience appeal the longer it is on the air. Why see World War Z starring Brad Pitt that looks like a digital mess when you can tune into this amazing world of zombies on TV. The interactions between the different groups of survivors are just as interesting if not more so than the zombies themselves. It is like great sci-fi show where the sci-fi itself is just he backdrop for some really deep and amazing human stories that are told like on Battlestar Gallactica or the original Star Trek.
A Walking Dead Update: Season 1 started out and while I was excited that there was a Zombie show on TV I wasn't sold yet. The plot moved a little too slowly for me. The Zombie scares were few and far between, but I stuck around for some reason letting the show develop. By Season 2 the show was hitting its stride and I sold hook line and sinker. By season end it had reached the quality of X-Files at its peak...(before Mulder left and the show stayed past its welcome and became a mess). When X-Files was clicking on all cylinders it was better than any horror or thriller movies in the theater. Why go and see a horror movie it the theater when X-files delivered every week. The Walking Dead at the end of Season 2 hit that same stride... There are no horror movies and especially no Zombie movies that have come out lately that can match the intensity and excellence that The Walking Dead has achieved by the first couple of episodes of Season 3.
Season 2 ended with a bang ....Season 3 started with a full scale prison invasion and Zombie take down...followed by a thrilling Zombie clear out and showdown with surviving prisoners. The show is a tour de force at this point...each episode is thrilling and shocking and a great look into the breakdown of humanity during the Zombie Apocalypse. Despite the buckets of gore and Severed heads rolling around it is much like Battlestar Gallactica or other good Sci-fi where it really digs into the human emotions and points of view --both good and bad. The decisions the characters must make to survive and how those decisions shape and change them. As a TV series the characters have had the time to develop great depth and you realy care for them at this point. The show keeps you on edge because main characters can die at any moment and with over 2 seasons behind them you have much more emotional attachment to the characters than you ever could in a single movie.
