The Walking Dead

Okay, so I know when I first made this blog, I mentioned that I would center it on Once Upon a Time and Downton Abbey, but recently, I got into a new show that is also on Sunday nights, so I think it deserves a shout-out. The Walking Dead. On from  9 to 10 PM on AMC, this show is one of the best I have ever seen. Apart from the genius storyline, the show has some of the best makeup and special effects I have ever seen on TV. It makes you feel like you are right in the middle of the action with great camera angles and amazing filming in general.

Every single week, The Walking Dead delivers. It follows a group of people, lead by a former Sheriff's Deputy, Rick Grimes, trying to survive what we would call a zombie apocalypse. Accompanying Rick are a rag-tag group of survivors. Glenn and Maggie are a married couple who are both great fighters. Carol is a woman who knows that sometimes you have to make sacrifices for the greater good. Tyresse is a generally gentle man who realizes that sometimes violence is necessary. Sasha and Bob are another couple on the show. Abraham protects Eugene, a man who supposedly knows the cure for the apocalypse. Rick's only family consists of his daughter (we think), Judith, and his son, Carl. Finally, there's Daryl. Daryl is like the new Chuck Norris. He's an amazing killer who takes out dozens of walkers with his crossbow. However, he's a lot more than that. We see many sides of Daryl through his relationships with different people of the show, and he is a definite viewer favorite.  

Andrew Lincoln (the actor who plays Rick) and a "walker"

The premise of the show is that a disease caused people when they died to come back to life. However, the only part of their brain that worked was the one to run their movements. They have no recollection of the people they knew before they "turned." When they come back to life, the people are called "walkers". If you get bit by a walker, you turn by the end of the day. The only way to kill these creatures is to stop their brain function by shooting them, stabbing them, or bashing them in the
head. Because of this, the show tends to be very graphic and hard to watch at some points.

The walkers aren't the only things that Rick and his group need to watch for. Sometimes the people can be worse. The survivors started out with a policy to not kill humans. Soon they had to rethink that. The characters in TWD are locked in a constant struggle to maintain their morality but still stay alive. I think one of the reasons why the show is so popular is because some of the problems they face are just heightened versions of the problems we face every day.