The Walking Dead Was Best Pilot Since Lost!
It isn’t often I am excited about a Pilot for a new TV show. Most of them fall short if you have any hype at all going in. So many shows have tried to recapture the magic that L o s t had and reel you in right away. They fail miserably because they try to throw out some obnoxious mystery rather than give us good writing and characters.
Until now! The Walking Dead’s Halloween premiere set the tone better than any pilot since Lost for me. High quality effects, filming, and story. It had the feel of an Epic movie. Something that L o s t had almost every single week. The Walkign Dead seems to have this going on as well.
The opening scenes of The Walking Dead told us straight away that we just weren’t going to have our hand held, or give you a club flyer. They were going balls out and showing us violence. The first major kill you see is a girl that couldn’t be any older than 10 years-old getting a bullet between the eyes.
The 90 minute Pilot was intense and had the epic zombie movie feel. While you got some homages to movies like 28 Days Later with a hospital to empty town scene, expectations of a more character driven story seem to be something we can expect. It’s not going to be zombie killing for an hour every week.
Sundays just became the most violent day of the week for me. Dexter and The Walking Dead are going to be the bloodiest 2 hours you may ever get on television in one day.

Posted October 31, 2010
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