Exactly - the slow build-up and then the fast forward cheat. No tv/internet news reports on what is going on during the fall (the 2004 Dawn Of The Dead film did a great job with this in a budget stylee - here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBia991p73E), no newspapers flapping about in the wind, or even the son Chris with his love for youtube and media - nowt. Just the jump to afterwards with the characters hearing, seeing and seemingly questioning nothing in the meantime.
Maybe we'll see flashbacks of other new characters as the series progresses - though if it happens it'll likely be a smaller scale focusing on their own perspective rather than the outside world - doh!
There is still the one episode to go of course - but a good quote on the show from elsewhere had it down as 'right now it seems the Zombies have taken over the world - yet no-one here has noticed'.