I'm really enjoying this series. Just hope it maintains such high standards. Plenty of British actors in it too which is a trend in American TV at the moment. Below is a review from The Guardian.
Sam Wollaston
They love us over there. There’s a new addition to the list of Brits who star, as Americans, in big American TV dramas, a list that already includes Hugh Laurie, Ian McShane, Eddie Izzard, Minnie Driver, Idris Elba, Dominic West and Joseph Fiennes. Now add Andrew Lincoln. Yes, Egg from This Life and whatshisname from Teachers; now he’s Rick Grimes, a police officer in Georgia, with an awful lot on his plate. He’s having to deal with the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse.
And he’s excellent. I’m not properly qualified to judge the accent – you’d need an American for that – but he’s convinced me. I’m not normally a massive fan of the zombie drama, apart from Shaun of the Dead, obviously. But The Walking Dead, based on the comic book of the same name, is quality. There’s an eeriness to it, a cinematic feel, and a languidness that both suits its southern setting, and is such a relief after all the manic attention-deficit dramas such as Fast Forward and The Event. It doesn’t mean things don’t happen – they do, majorly – but they happen in time. And because it’s not 100 mile-an-hour splatter-gun action, there’s time for the tension to gnaw away at you. There’s something of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road about it, as well as Dawn of the Dead.
And man is it grisly. The zombies’ state of decay varies, from a look that most of us can achieve the morning after a big night, to vile creatures that lack flesh and bottom halves and drag themselves along the ground trailing their entrails. I can’t believe they ate that poor horse, too! Maybe those ones were French zombies. Zeurmbeez.
It’s a shame The Waking Dead is hidden away on FX. But that’s where The Wire started, too; maybe it will be picked up by someone further to the left on the listings pages. Otherwise, if you haven’t got all the channels, it might be a case of waiting for the box set.
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