The Walking Dead shambles back for a second season next weekend, and so we thought we’d do a Haunted October review of the source material. The Walking Dead may be purchased as a comic or in trade paperbacks; we’re reviewing the large size Book One, which chronicles issues 1-12, the source of the tv series’ first two seasons.
Category Archives: The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead Review: “TS-19”
The first season finale begins well, and develops in directions not charted by the source material. The final bang, alas, proves something of a whimper.
The Walking Dead Review: “Wildfire”
The penultimate episode of the first season proves perhaps the most intense since the first.
The Walking Dead Review: “Vatos”
“Vatos” represents the series’ most uneven episode to date– but it comes to a dark, uncompromising, and powerful conclusion.
The Walking Dead Review: “Tell It to the Frogs”
In addition to zombies, the survivors have to deal with racial tensions, class issues, gender inequities, relationship problems, and basic primate behavior. Even in its slowest episode to date, Walking Dead buries 95% of contemporary television.
And we still get some zombie mayhem.
The Walking Dead Review: “Guts”
Walking Dead shambled on the screen last week, devouring ratings and critical acclaim, and raising questions about our basic humanity. How do we respond to pressure?
This week serves up more of the same. It’s impressive stuff, but should we want to see a show that features its protagonist chopping up a dead body with an axe?
The Walking Dead Review– “Days Gone Bye”
Zombies—specifically, post-Romero zombies—have lurched and crawled into nearly every aspect of our culture. We’ve had low-budget zombies, high-budget zombies, zombie horror, zombie comedy, zombie walks, and zombies injected into classic lit.
Now we have a prestige zombie television show, based on a zombie comic.
Drink, anyone?