Although AMC produces only a couple series, the channel has struck television gold with Mad Men and Breaking Bad, and now they can add The Walking Dead to their list of hits to be proud of.It might seem a little strange at first; the channel known for its painstakingly realistic series is producing a show about zombies? But The Walking Dead isn't your typical zombie fare. Created by critically acclaimed director Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption), and based on the popular comic book by Robert Kirkman, the series is introspective and thought-provoking, will still managing to deliver the chills and thrills associated with the zombie "genre."
The Walking Dead opens with Sheriff Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln, Love Actually) awaking alone in a hospital, having been admitted for a near fatal gunshot wound. The hospital, however, is empty except for some gruesome corpses. Rick makes his way outside and soon finds that a zombie apocalypse has more or less run everyone out of town, including his wife (Sarah Wayne Callies, Prison Break) and young son. Certain that they are still alive, he sets off to find them, and thus the story of this fast-paced series is......
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