EPIC Comic-Con Trailer of the Week

AMC is known for their badass series. Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Killing. Yeah I only watch one of those series, but fuck it, we all know they’re sick shows. A while back, I did a post on The Walking Dead, the first season, like two fucking years ago (Holy shit, why I have blogged for so long?), and since then I’ve been following it lazily since last Comic-Con and eventually when it aired…

…You can imagine my reaction.

Point is, season one is worth watching. Honestly, it is a great series, probably not on par with long-running critical and commercial successes like Mad Men and to a lesser extent Breaking Bad, there is a lot of really good material here. And I don’t need to tell you how ambitious this is. This is horror drama, with zombies. Instead of period suits, there’s hours of grimy dead person make-up and sweltering on-location heat. Instead of drug deals, there’s guns and blades and crossbows and trust issues.

This series takes a lot to make. Check out the behind-the-scenes production featurettes at amctv.com to see how much goes into making this series.

If you need more reassurance: this isn’t a summer horror blockbuster. This isn’t a satire. This isn’t a B-movie with a budget.

It’s a drama. It has characters, it has conflicts, and it has writing.

The kicker—and probably the best kicker in all of modern television history—is that there are zombies thrown in.

There is not a logical way that something like that could be bad.

Season 1, while hyped to oblivion, didn’t capture as many of the audience’s hearts as I imagined Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile—he’s legit), executive producer along with Gale Anne Hurd (The Terminator) may have wanted, but shit, the fanbase is so huge now, I don’t see this stopping anytime soon.

Talks of a third season were well underway before Comic-Con. Put it in the bag.

God, I fucking love zombies.

Oh yeah, read the graphic novel series. Still ongoing. Started nine years ago. Award-winning and best-selling since then. You’re dumb if you don’t read it.