Following the conclusion of yet another war (this time against the creepy Whisperers), our remaining survivors have been placed back to square one. Much of AMC’s marketing material for The Walking Dead’s final season has revolved around the concept of hunger. Now in season 11, the Alexandrians are back to building again and it’s leading to some surprisingly effective television. They were confronting their own flaws, fixing them, and trying to create a new society out of the ashes of an old one. The Alexandrians were building something. Not only that, but the Savior war came across as an unnecessary interruption. The cartoonish aspects of Negan’s personality were grating rather than appealing and the show’s limited budget could’t accommodate a full-on war in addition to all the zombies. While the “All Out War” arc is one of the most beloved aspects of the original comic, when adapted to screen it quite simply did not work. That era didn’t last long, however, as Alexandria’s nation-building efforts were quickly interrupted by a war with Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and his Saviors. Not coincidentally, the back half of season 5 was arguably The Walking Dead’s first golden era. It wasn’t until midway through season 5 that the survivors found a fulltime sanctuary in the form of the Alexandria Safe Zone, were able to catch their breath, and begin the work of rebuilding rather than merely surviving. It took The Walking Dead a surprisingly long time to fully understand that inescapable fact of zombie drama life. They are an environmental risk that also just happen to serve as a reminder to beleaguered survivors that no matter how tough things are now, they could always be worse. When deployed correctly, zombies are a setting, not antagonists. While The Walking Dead has produced some of the most visually interesting zombies in the history of the genre, the show’s success was never tied to the shambling hordes of dead bodies that gave it its name. It’s no secret that zombies themselves are often the least interesting part of zombie storytelling. It’s also quite good…perhaps the best it’s been in nearly a decade.
As things stand right now, The Walking Dead is more like Little House on the Prairie than Night of the Living Dead.
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(Perhaps not coincidentally right around the time that Glenn died and actor Steven Yeun began his rightful ascent as a movie star).Ĭonsider this feature a public service announcement then.
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And yet, it’s hard to shake the feeling that the average TV viewer’s knowledge of the show ended years ago. We know people are still watching The Walking Dead, now three episodes into its 24-episode final season. The show, based on Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard’s 193-issue comic of the same name, still receives plenty of active fans and bemused weekly onlookers.
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Once TV’s most-watched series, AMC’s long-running zombie drama is…still one of TV’s most-watched series but significantly less so than it was at its peak. You’d be forgiven for not knowing what’s going on with The Walking Dead at the moment.
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