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THE SHUFFLING DEAD
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All of what you say is 100% true friend radii.
I add my angst to include the really needless stupid aftershow replete with meaningless placeholder interviews and commentaries that are so damn blah and defines the term ‘meh.'
An overlong 1.5 hr. episode is so Frank Darabont-ish unentertaining or rather disappointing if you want to be charitable; 100% predictable and painful to watch.
It's so formula derivative; even the new attempts at zombie human interaction are not nearly so cleaver. As far as the actors go, the included onscreen folks are ALL token minority* stereotypes played by uninteresting actors** reciting hackneyed plotlines photographed in 16 mm ever so leisurely. Good camera angles and zombie makeup are all that saves the show from me turning to watch the Fashion police rerun. Barely.
Compare this waste of time to almost ANY EPISODE of "Breaking Bad."
(I especially liked the episode where Gus offs the cartel leaders - all brilliantly photographed, paced, and acted).
Can anything save this series radii? Ya think?
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* I was surprised to learn in the aftershow outtakes that the lead character southern-drawled ‘Rick' was played by an English actor, hearing him speak God's own mother tongued English!
** except for Laurie Holden who I am so much in love with and always will be. Sweet.
if the show had a sense of humor they would use that crawling half-lady zombie as a running chorus - just cut to her crawling and dub some lines in her mouth "You won't want to miss the second half of this episode" "KFC bucket-o-wings are half-off" "Have you seen my kitty-cat?" baddump-bump
Oh, I forgot to mention I saw a pretty good zombie movie on AMC by George Romero - Survival of the Dead - which had this whole Irish fued subplot - entertaining with the right dose of camp (all zombie movies need camp)
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