- Network: AMC
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 31, 2010
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You'll be happy to know that at least as far as the first two episodes go (90 -minute season premiere this Sunday night), the show is better than ever--which would have seemed impossible.
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If Kirkman, writer/show runner Glen Mazzara ("The Shield") and the rest of the team continue doing what they're doing--and following the template Darabont created--The Walking Dead can have a bloody long life.
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For anyone seeking edge-of-your-chair tension, Dead delivers. But what separates this fine series from similar shows is the honesty of its human interactions.
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Six million zombiephiles watched the finale of the first season and those 6 million will not want to miss Sunday's opener, which is excellent and appropriately disgusting.
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The Walking Dead hasn't lost the most important ingredient in its strangely successful recipe: it's thrilling.
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[It's] a new season of jump-from-your-seat scares and shivery twists that will leave you breathless.
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Based on the first two installments of a 13-episode season, it will continue to have viewers perched on the edge of their sofas.
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Season 2 so far is still a watchable feast of decayed human flesh and frayed nerve endings.
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In its second season, The Walking Dead remains the most suspenseful show on any TV network.
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Like Rick Grimes, all I can do is focus on what lies directly in front of me, and the here and now of The Walking Dead looks very good.
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In many ways, it was where the series ought to have begun.
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The show creates tension--through atmosphere and characters the audience cares about--and offers so many make-you-jump scares that by the end of an episode, you're left breathless.
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The Walking Dead will leave you hungry for more.
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The show seems somehow sleeker and better paced. Characters may now be people first and archetypes second. This has the subtle but immediate effect of making The Walking Dead less predictable and more frightening.
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The bottom line is, if you liked the what the show was dishing out in its first season--genre storytelling made with admirable restraint and economy, except for those jump-out-of-your-seat scary/gross moments--you're likely to enjoy what you see in season 2.
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Beyond a couple of truly gut-churning moments courtesy of the special-FX wizards, the second season showcases the topnotch cast the producers have assembled, as well as the program's skill milking terror in broad daylight.
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If the characters are a bit weak, The Walking Dead still has a compelling scenario going for it.
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The Walking Dead is starting season 2 much more strongly than it ended season 1.
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As we head into Season 2, it's becoming increasingly clear that they [the actors] can't make these characters interesting, because they're too thinly conceived.
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The Walking Dead may be under new management, but it seems to have kept its rhythm, moving easily between bursts of intense violence and long stretches of psychological sparring.
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The show is a grim spectacle, and juicy bait for end-of-the-world addicts such as myself. But the living people in The Walking Dead, those uninfected with the mysterious virus, they are far less compelling.
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A wiry, tired jitteriness has crept in. [24 Oct 2011, p.48]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 1,150 out of 1547
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Mixed: 180 out of 1547
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Negative: 217 out of 1547
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