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From advertising men to intelligence spooks to meth-cooking cancer patients, AMC has a proclivity for developing shows about vastly different subjects. With “The Walking Dead,” which premiered earlier tonight, the cable channel can now add zombies to the list.
Adapted from the engrossing, if bleak graphic novels by Robert Kirkman, the undead drama stars Andrew Lincoln (a.k.a. the sign-happy Brit who’s in love with Keira Knightley in “Love, Actually”) as Rick Grimes, a small-town sheriff. In a tone-setting opening scene, Rick sees what looks like a little girl walking by in grungy slippers. Except, of course, she’s not a little girl; she’s a zombie. He shoots her in the head.We flash back to happier, non-zombified times. Rick and his partner Shane Walsh are complaining about the women in their lives when they’re are called in as backup for a shoot-out (is it just me, or all these cops extremely bad shots given how closely they’re parked to the criminals?). Rick gets hit and blacks out as the screen fades to white and we get hazy images of Shane coming to visit him in the hospital with flowers.
Rick eventually wakes up from his coma, and calls out for a nurse that’s not there. He makes his way down a dirty hospital hall riddled with bullet holes until he finds a locked set of doors with the words “Don’t Open - Dead Inside” printed on on them — making the long white fingers that reach out to Rick even more jarring. In a tense sequence, the lawman rushes to the stairwell and exits the building, only to find an large pile of dead bodies outside, swarming with flies. Making his way up the adjacent hill, he finds an abandoned helicopter and scattered military equipment, which prompts the question: what has happened? Zombies, that’s what — undead bodies that continue on, even as, say, their entire bottom halves have been blown off and they’re just a torso pulling themselves along the ground.
After searching his own house for traces of his wife Lori and son Carl, Rick is hit upside the head by a young African-American boy, whose father wants to know where Rick’s wound is from. (The zombies, you see, infect humans by biting them.) After Rick explains he’s been in a hospital in a coma, father and son — Morgan and Duane — slowly start to trust Rick and brief him on the apocalyptic scene surrounding them.
Returning to his house, Rick realizes that his wife must have escaped because all of their photo albums are gone (Morgan, whose wife is now a zombie, concurs that this was a very womanly thing to do), and makes plans to go Atlanta, where there’s supposed to be military protection as the government attempts to figure out how to solve this mess. To prep himself for his journey, Rick goes to his police station to pick up guns and gives some to Morgan — who plans to use them to shoot his zombified wife, to put her out of her misery. Rick, too, is still in a compassionate mood, and blasts the half-corpse he encountered earlier so she can finally die (”I’m sorry this happened to you.”)
Then, in one the episode’s most stirring visual shots, we see Rick approach the city of Atlanta on horseback via the highway, with a stream of now-frozen cars attempting to flee. And then we see the zombies, who attack Rick… because they are eager to eat the live flesh of his horse. To escape, he crawls under a tank and into its belly, where he shoots at the zombie soldier inside. But being inside a tank, the bullet ricochets and temporarily deafens him. Luckily, he comes to just in time to hear someone ask, “Hey, you in the tank.”
What did you think of the episode, readers? Having read the Robert Kirkman series, I can tell you that things are going to get bleak and fast.. and I can’t wait to see them unfold on screen. There’s something about the combination of zombies and apocalyptic times that brings out the worst in human beings, which is where the true horror — and good drama — lies.
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