"The Walking Dead" (2010 ->)

There's been a lot of hype and discussion regarding The Walking Dead, so I figured it was about time I checked out what all the fuzz was about. I actually did most of the catch-up last week, but with only one episode left of season two I awaited watching the season finale to write this post.

Season one was good, despite my personal reluctance to take the character of Rick too seriously. He had more than a few strange moments early on when he should be more than aware of dangers and such, but failed miserably to act or react accordingly. Anyway. Overall the story moved on quite well, introduced us to the characters involved and their current situation. With only 6 episodes they didn't have time to take too many unnecessary twists in wrong directions, and it all held a lot of promise.

Season two does the opposite. It has all the promise and possibilities of greatness, and sadly it's little else than a soapy drama. And to add insult to injury; without letting the interesting characters getting any serious airtime. Without dropping into details or spoilers, there's at least some things happening in the late stages of the season which promises renewed greatness in seasons to come. Hopefully they'll get back more focused with the new show-runner taking solid control of a franchise with so much potential already wasted. There's also a couple of great touches in the finale making us curious about things to come.

I for one am also getting increasingly interested in the comics this is based on, as I find it hard to believe they ruined as much on bad storyline-decisions. I doubt they could be as successful if they did. In other words there's already about 100 comic books out there with The Walking Dead tag on it, and I'll have to consider snatching up a few to really get my moneys worth of the franchise's potential.


★★★☆☆ Season 1
★★☆☆☆ Season 2


★★★☆☆ Overall Quality (thus far)


Season two have been agonizingly slow, and a weak two stars season from me, but I'm still hanging on... mostly thanks to the huge potential and the teasers of things to come. Along with the strong three stars from season one that just about makes up for a very weak third star on the overalls thus far. But have no doubt about it; there's a lot of untapped potential within this show. Hopefully they'll deliver in the seasons to come.