The Walking Dead

If the streets of our beloved nation ever became filled with the living dead, what’s the first thing I would do to survive?... Head to Costco.

That’s just some of the random things that the show The Walking Dead made me think about after watching the series premiere.

After a couple of friends raved on how good show The Walking Dead is, I decided to check it out for myself.  Though the show is already in its second season, I was able to catch the very first episode on my Netflix account just to see if this zombie series is really something to get excited about.

The foundation for the story begins when the sheriff’s deputy Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) awakens from a coma and finds himself in a hospital bed after being shot by a runaway criminal. 

Grimes then decides to venture around the hospital after not receiving any attention from his would-be nurses. With bullet holes decorating the walls, flickering lights at every corner and a cafeteria door reading “don’t open, dead inside,” Grimes realizes that, to say the least, the world is not how he remembers it.

As the protagonist, Grimes ultimately comes to the realization that a zombie epidemic has swept the nation, and he then attempts to find his wife Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) and his son Carl, meeting other survivors of the zombie infestation along the way.

The show is filled with suspenseful encounters with flesh-hungry zombies at almost every turn. With all of the drama, it made this first-time viewer imagine if I could survive in a world with zombies trying to take huge chunks out of my body.

The zombies are shown in an amazingly realistic fashion, and the special effects, such as the blood-splattering after a zombie is shot, accents the killing of zombies very well and adds a another dimension of realism.

This show is very unique in that there has not been any shows, pertaining to zombies, though there have been many movies based on the topic.  The make-up, special affects, and thrilling zombie confrontations make this show very comparable to its big-screen counterparts like Zombieland and Dawn of the Dead.

If you ever get the chance, I would suggest that you make a trip to Barnes & Nobles and purchase the book The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead before it’s to late (yes, its a real book).