Ok, I finally got around to watching this.
I have to admit I was very excited, being a TWD fan I wanted to see how it all collapsed but I was kind of disappointed to be honest. It's not completely shite but it definitely isn't what I hoped for.
The show looks and "feels" rather cheap. I read this thread today after I finished watching and I agree with a few posters who said that it looks like an 80s tv film, it really does.
The characters are all a bit meh so far, especially Madison. Her entire reaction to the world falling apart doesn't look realistic at all. I mean, here we have your "run of the mill" middle aged woman who works in a school so her reaction to some of the situations that she goes
through are laughably bad. She has to beat her co-worker to death with a fire extinguisher and then she just goes home and remains completely normal, plays Monopoly, laughs and shit. Wtf was that? Yeah, they did show her crying in the bathroom for a few moments but it didn't feel real to me at all.
I saw people here were discussing certain points that I wanted to discuss too, like the fat kid going back to school to pick up a few cans and his knife. It was laughable really. Yeah, he would do that, there are no knives of any kind at his house. Baffling.
The whole collapse and official reaction was also very disappointing. I think most of the viewers were waiting to see that part of the story and that "9 days later" jump was a big fuck you to all of us.
What to say about the army shooting EVERYONE outside the fences, whether infected or not?! What the fuck was that? How would you even enforce that considering each and every soldier has a family of his own somwhere and knows that what they're doing here(LA) is being done to his own family by other soldiers, wherever it may be. And also, what exactly is the point of having fenced zones if you're gonna abandon them and the people in them?
Then there's 10 km of "infected" free radius around the zone. Really? In 9 days you've gone from a packed LA to not a single person, dead or alive in 10km radius. How? Why didn't we see any of that shit?
Also, what's with the teenage kids in shows like this? They're really doing my head in with their - "how to be a stupid teenager in horror conditions" textbook behaviour.
I don't know, maybe I'm bitter because I expected it to be different so I went on a rant here.
I liked the boat idea but was disappointed when I saw it's a motor yacht and not a sailboat.
Hopefully the 2nd season will be much better.
EDIT: I just remembered - the scene where the 3 of them are driving away and Nick is checking the radio stations for news and then we hear a fella talking about it being an apocalypse and it ends up being about a sport team. I laughed there, great scene.
