Walking Dead, Season 2

[Ms Harriet Vane]

I've only just caught up with the US for Walking Dead. I only watched the first half of S1 and let my husband fill me in on the rest, because it was starting to feel a bit too similar to the UK show Survivors.

But I've enjoyed the second season so far. It's not a subtle show, but Daryl, Andrea and Glenn are fun characters and I like the moral ambiguity of Shane.

Anyone else following it this season?

[shakespeherian]

We're keeping up with it, and while I do feel that at least some of that is feeling a weird sort of obligation to the one zombie teevee show in existence, I think the second season shows some signs of correction for many of the errors of the first season (I had a pretty hard time figuring out who all the characters were for the whole first season because they were constantly in crisis and in large groups). The show still has a lot of problems-- I don't feel like I know anything about any of the female characters, for example-- but since it's only had a handful of episodes so far I'm remaining skeptically optimistic. It still has time to figure itself out.

The thing that has worked so far this season, I think, is that the main conflict has arisen from the circumstances of the premise but isn't the premise itself directly: If the show is going to have interesting arcs and any sort of longevity, I think the zombies need to be a characteristic of the universe rather than the direct source of plot, otherwise I can't see it being anything but a CSI-type procedural where the characters wander aimlessly through Georgia and fight zombies every episode.