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The zombie craze continues. I think we can safely say that The Walking Dead‘s first season finale next week will do gangbuster ratings. The penultimate fifth episode of the AMC zombie drama last night drew 5.6 million viewers, a series high, besting the series’ monster premiere that averaged 5.3 million. In adults 18-49, the series, which has already been renewed for Season 2, attracted 3.7 million viewers, also a record.
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Yeah, that’s because The Walking Dead is AMAZING and it gets better and better with every episode… too bad there’s only 6 this season!
A great show that maintains its quality through the first 5 episodes. The creative team behind this series has done a great job so far.
Lemme know when it starts getting good cause I’ll watch…
You are hilarious.
Incredible!
This show is just plain boring… how can they keep me watching if they just plain old ignore the blood splatter from zombies on everyone’s face!.. they wore protective suits in the earlier episodes but are just ignoring it now… way to insult your audience… dumb show for middle America.
…and thank you middle America for the great ratings!
(someone’s taking blood splatter a little too seriously.)
The protective suits were worn when they were out hunting for Walkers. You can’t expect them to wear them when they are attacked randomly, or expect them to wear them at all times or that they have an unlimited supply of suits! You know what?! Its like 50 Cent said let the HATERS HATE AND JUST WATCH THE MONEY PILE UP!
Kind of amazed at the comments here.
The show is been wildly uneven in quality.
Last night’s episode was by far the worse while the pilot was outstanding.
There have been some excellent actors drifting in and out of the show.
Some of the regulars need to get chomped and some of the passers-by need to be added to the cast as regulars Michael Rooker and Lennie James in particular.
Jeffrey DeMunn should be given much, much more to do! His brief moments in last nights episode were the highlights of the evening.
Here’s hoping for a smashing finale.
Most accurate and realistic post of all. Soooo many continuity issues on “rules” exist on this show makes it so unrealistic (re: splatters, etc.)! Make rules, stick to them…that’s what makes speculative situations real.
Not every show hits its stride right out the gate. This show has awesome potential – deserves to find it’s footing. Took Seinfeld 2 years to find it’s. Top-flight creative team behind this – give them a chance. 99% of TV sucks – this show is good.
Where are all the idiots who said the ratings would drop every week until it was cancelled? Go back and look at all the articles about the pilot’s ratings.
i was thinking the same
Great ratings and very much deserved too.
Yes, indeed the show has been sort of uneven. We were told earlier that one should not get into contact with the ‘blood’ of the Zombies, obviously the rules have changed because there’s some touching there. That said, this is a brilliant show. Love it. And am pretty sure next Sunday will bring in a new series high given the final minutes of the recent episodes.
And then the mythology that started unfolding on the most recent episode….
I noticed that contact-with-blood inconsistency last night too (notably the woman holding onto her dead sister until she resurrected as a zombie). But then in the “On the next episode…” previews, it shows that woman apparently registers as infected and is thrown into some kind of quarantine at the CDC building.
At any rate, I love the show.
They are creating a horror 1 hr. A basic cable show where the lead shoots a 6 year old girl in the head in the first 90 seconds! Are you serious?
6-year old zombie girl–there’s a difference.
a zombie 6 year old.
It’s been a mixed bag, yes, but still, even at its worst, much more compelling than the average television drama. Good mix of emotion, tension and gore. Though last nights was poorly directed, there were some good moments. How they sustain this, though, is beyond me. But the trick of making Romero Zombie ethos feel fresh and evocative again is a real good one.
Kirkman should be pretty happy about that.
America loves those zombies !
Never underestimate the audience appeal of the undead.
That’s too bad, I thought this week’s episode was its worst, very drawn out and boring. With that said, I’m sure things are only going to get better and better. Just too bad that whoever tuned in for the first time was met with this week’s ep.
Having not seen the 5th episode yet, this is a great show. I had issues with the writing early on (and, growing up in the south, still don’t like how much they focus on racism and misogyny in a southern setting) but they’ve cleaned that up. Early on, the goal of the episode (beyond “survival”) was either unclear or just a little meh. Now they’re getting into focusing the episode, giving the characters obstacles beyond “don’t die” and generating tension between them. And all of that is working for me. Like good zombie horror films, they understand that you’re putting characters under a microscope, not just trying to make the audience uncomfortable. Kudos to Frank Darabont and especially AMC for having the bravery to take a chance on this.
Overall so far, I’m kinda meh on this show. Big Darabont fan, but he really hasn’t done anything new with the whole zombie concept. Most characters are really unlikeable, which doesn’t foster any emotional tie with the audience. Have been fast forwarding my way through parts since the pilot ep. Unless things twist up in a new direction in the finale, it’s coming off the dvr series recording list.
Yeah, I like it too and hope I could watch more, more, and looking forward to see new episodes. I love zombies films and series and Walking Dead is just definitely right to watch over.
it’s not particularly compelling or intelligent at all but i do see potential. as a fan of the genre though (and considering the current environment of worthless TV being aired and quickly canceled) im ecstatic to see the ratings so high and climbing.
with all this attention, im confident we’ll begin to see the full potential of the series in season 2.
I’m not giving up on the show, but the cumulative effect of all its problems is started to become impossible to ignore.
- Melodrama found in long, static, boring scenes involving characters I do not know well enough yet and thus don’t care about when they go (bearded guy, blonde sister, Latino family, etc.). I almost wished they ripped off Lost and used pre-zombie apocalypse flashbacks to give us character insight instead of these drawn out moments.
- The lapses in logic are awful. First they’re scared of infection, but then they practically bathe themselves in zombie blood on purpose without a moment’s thought. Having their camp outdoors as opposed to holding up indoors somewhere is ludicrous. The whole “I dropped the key but don’t have time to hand you this hacksaw,” followed by the “I’ll cut through my wrist rather than the chain, just for the lulz” thing is atrocious. Not to mention how over-the-top ridiculous Michael Rooker’s cracker act was.
- The cinematography has a sharp, crisp, bright TV look to it. I would prefer it have a look more in line with its own main title sequence rather than Hawaii Five O.
- And now they got Noah Emmerich. Does that mean New Line is doing the movie?
/rant. Still watching regardless of all this. It still beats Burn Notice and NCIS and all that garbage.
I have found the acting on the show to veer from uneven to awful but I thought Laurie Holden was fantastic last night.
If it’s not living up to your lofty standards, stop watching! More than likely, you’ll keep watching and then find places to complain about it online.
I liked the show when it first premiered but I’m quickly head into “Meh” territory with these last 3 episodes.
@the Truth, I totally agree with you on the blood thing. I watched last night as the blonde held her dead sister and kept thinkingbto myself, “she’s touching infected blood, how come nobody’s freaking out?” And, now I’m kind of having trouble suspending my disbelief at a zombie apocalypse. I mean, soldiers wear heavy duty armor, how did they get so easily overtaken by zombies. Then the CDC guy mentioning every country has fallen just screamed bullshit to me. Not even in 28 Days later did the infection spread that far. It’s really testing my willingness to keep watching. But with one episode left in the season, i might as well watch.
Dreadfully slow-moving, boring show. The stuff they’ve accomplished in the 5 episodes thus far easily would fit in a 90-minute movie. That’s just bad writing when you draw things out like that for no reason other than to get more episodes out of thin material.
A great first 4 episodes, then last night’s 5th was bland. It had a pacing problem to me in that too much of the episode was just dealing with the aftermath of the zombie attack, and two of the story lines were too similar in tone and substance. They should have played the dead Sis going Zombie much scarier/creepier, and have the other bitten guy, who could still talk, do the more reflective/somber angle…
I also think the getting of food, ammo, essentials, should be a much more urgent matter in the series. Can’t somebody be diabetic, bipolar, something. Needs to have “somebody needs their meds” episodes. Long story short, the story has to keep forcing them to go where zombies or other trouble might be and keep hitting the community vs. the self issues…. just my two cents. Now hire me on staff.
One of the best shows I’ve seen in the past decade… It’s soooooo addictive.