THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 2

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Robert Kirkman’s original comic book series “The Walking Dead” first aired on AMC on October 31^st, 2010 to critical acclaim. The series follows protagonist Rick Grimes, who has awakened from a gunshot-induced coma to an apocalyptic reality. Unable to find medical support, he stumbles through and out of the hospital to find everything rotting and decaying away. He meet up with a man and his son, the latter originally hitting him over the head because he was thought to be a “walker.” After being debriefed on the chaos the world has fallen into, Rick departs for Atlanta in hopes of finding some amount of hope in the form of other people or a cure. After being ambushed in the city by a horde of zombies, he meets a group that is scouring the city for supplies to bring back to their home camp just outside the city limits. After a daring escape, Rick joins the group back outside the city and finds his wife and son among the refugees.  The story continually follows the trials and tribulations of the group as they try to deal with supplies, sanity, and each other. The zombies, thankfully Romero-style, antagonize the group at times when they need it most, often where they are at their most disconnected. Amid their struggles with one another, zombies attack the camp and kill nearly a third of all the members their, leading to some truly heart wrenching moments, as viewers are forced to watch a sister let her sibling reanimate from a zombie bite and kill her. Pressured, the group departs for the CDC, Center for Disease Control, in hopes of finding a cure or perhaps a glimmer of hope for the forlorn travelers. There they meet with a scientist, who reluctantly welcomes the group, who tells them that their chance at a cure has been eliminated and that all contact has been lost with the others across the world. Worse yet, the power is failing within the center and will self-destruct when the power is fully drained. Acknowledging this information, the group enjoys their temporary sojourn with food, friendship, and a little bit of alcohol that remind viewers that despite whatever tragedy can occur, we are and will always be human. However, the center eventually saps and a few members of the group remain to face a death far more peaceful than one they could receive from a zombie attack. After the main group leaves, one runs back to save another member, which is later revealed in the second season to be a regretful decision. The group leaves the CDC with the remaining members in hopes of finding a military facility that will hopefully offer conditions similar to the CDC without a self-destruct system. Season two picks up shortly afterwards, with the group running into a highway plagued with abandoned cars that bar their path. While looking for more supplies among the cars, the members are rushed by a horde of zombies that forces them to hide under cars. Members are injured in the process, and one little girl is discovered by the zombies and flees into the forest. She is chased by Rick, who eliminates the two zombies chasing her. Unfortunately, she is lost during the escape, and the rest of the season so far has been spent trying to find her. A search party is sent after the young girl, Sophia, and this leads their search to a church. She is not there, but Rick asks for a sign from God. The party splits again, and Rick finds a deer in the forest that he allows his son, Carl to approach. As he nears the deer, a shot rings out, piercing the deer and Carl by accident. In order to save his life, Carl is carried by his father to the hunter’s residence, where another group of survivors resides. Again, a part of the group finds temporary respite from the dangers of zombies, the ever-present danger. Shane, Rick’s partner throughout the entire series, is dispatched with the hunter to a local high school that will have the medical supplies necessary to save Carl’s life. Shane is forced to make a decision in this quest that will remind viewers of the disturbing steps one may take in order to get what they need. The characters must now prepare to hold their ground to hunt for Sophia, so that they may continue their quest towards the military base. However, the events at the high school where those medical supplies were held indicate that an even more harrowing journey lies ahead for the group.

I fell in in love with this series through the approach to the characters. While I skimmed over huge plot points, it was for the sake of letting you, the reader, watch the series yourself to develop the connections necessary to appreciate the characters. The phenomenal plot twists and moments of humanity are a great reminder of how people may be in the event of an apocalypse such as this. In the same way Max Brooks examined how people would react to different levels of zombie infection in The Zombie Survival Guide, this series is essentially the “what If” of a level-5 catastrophic outbreak. Also, the zombies are used in a way to complicate difficult situations which creates the suspense that has drawn hundreds of thousands of people to their televisions on Sunday nights. I have been a fan of Romero’s work since watching the Night of the Living

Dead, so the director using his archetype instead of the running zombies popularized by movies such as 28 Days Later is a pleasant homage.

5 Stars out of 5. You need to watch this series.

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