The Walking Dead's brief 6 episode first season wasn't actually packed with heaps of events - all that happened was lead Rick Grimes (Lincoln) wakes up in a hospital to find everyone dead from a zombie epidemic and tries to find his wife and kid. He finds them and the group she's travelling with and they eventually decide to try to get to the local CDC facility. Oh and there are a couple of trips into the city, Atlanta, which is packed to the gills with flesh-hungry dead people. As well as using some pretty horrific effects to create the zombies and their inevitably bloody destruction, the series takes a quieter, slower examination of the living and their relationships, especially in the context of the rest of the country being wiped out.
Rick's wife, believing he was dead, has shacked up with his police-partner, only to ditch him when Rick came back, creating a bit of drama. Survivor Andrea loses her sister to the virus during the series, after their relationship had grown. There's also a wife-beater amongst the group, and a red-neck racist pair who naturally would rather pick on their black companion than concentrate on the zombies in hand. Some of this drama is a bit soapy, but it also shows that the people flung together after an apocalypse won't and don't have to get along harmoniously! Especially considering the stress levels caused by your dead loved ones trying to eat your face. I'll be searching out a second helping and hoping it returns to terrestrial TV next year.
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