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Seasons(11) / Episodes(177)
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Season 1 (2010) - 6 episodes
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Season 2 (2011) - 13 episodes
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Season 3 (2012) - 16 episodes
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Season 4 (2013) - 16 episodes
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Season 5 (2014) - 16 episodes
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Season 6 (2015) - 16 episodes
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Season 7 (2016) - 16 episodes
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Season 8 (2017) - 16 episodes
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Season 9 (2018) - 16 episodes
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Season 10 (2019) - 22 episodes
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Season 11 (2021) - 24 episodes
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Waking up in an empty hospital after weeks in a coma, County Sheriff Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) finds himself utterly alone. The world as he knows it is gone, ravaged by a zombie epidemic. The Walking Dead tells the story of the weeks and months that follow after the apocalypse. Based on Robert Kirkman’s hugely successful and popular comic book series. (official distributor synopsis)
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Season 1: well-done work that has issues mainly in melodramatic dialogues, but otherwise excels in weedy Atlanta and excellent twists (home for the elderly, digging graves, etc.). Some conflicts between characters are defined as bearable, others are completely forgettable, but the atmosphere is daunting enough for a person to go through the first season in the pleasant tension that similarly realistic visions of the end of the world evoke. [75%] Season 2: phenomenal start, the atmosphere of the first two episodes whipped to the max. Then, unfortunately, the redneck syndrome begins, and all the characters (with small Daryl-sumps) degenerate into rednecks chasing their own tails and saying the same things all the time. It’s been a long time since I've hated anyone as much as Dale and his skunk suffering. What would be enough for three episodes is stretched to a good 7 episodes (not counting the strong start and solid ending). Even new acquisitions will have to be defended in the next series, because almost nothing works out here. A very “dead" experience. [55%] Season 3: or how interest became passion and quite sympathetic characters become regular family members. Compared to the second season, everything is good - the beginning is not overdone, the individual situations are played out, the chemistry of the characters is variable, the situations and dilemmas are repeated only minimally (they benefited a lot from the removal of the love triangle), the return of Merle confirms the greatest foreign exchange of WD: the ability to unpredictably change attitudes towards the character on a very small area. The poetics of post-apocalyptic disruption go much further in psychological and ethical depth than any similarly oriented film. The way walkers become more of a facade in the conflicts of extinct civilization is chilling. If it wasn't for the fact that the last episodes of the series sometimes "pull time" a little (13 would be just right), I'd go into euphoric turns. Even so, WD is becoming something I enjoy, and Rick and Daryl are some of the best characters in current TV. [85%]
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The first episode sets up the entire vision and then the group of survivors move on. And meanwhile, we get four episodes in which nothing happens! Only the pilot, charged with emotions like Remington ´870, and the finale, which brings something new, are slightly above average, the rest of the episodes are unwatchable boredom. What takes an hour could be done in half the time. In retrospect, I can't remember what it was all about when family squabbles are resolved in a flash, and the shooting of the perfect (phenomenal make-up work!) zombies takes minimal time. Such a sparse plot wouldn't even make a feature film, let alone a six-part series. I actually watched it because I was waiting for "something." This is the biggest trap for TV audiences in a long time. The audience success overseas is a mystery to me, but in any case, I can understand why Darabont fired all the writers in the run-up to the second season, even though I actually don't care much about its origins.
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The original review: it was supposed to be one of the major horror events in recent years, but unfortunately, it was bitter disappointment. Darabont failed to look after the project and, instead of a proper zombie carnage and tense dramatic events, we got lots of lifeless chatter among unlikeable characters. Only the pilot episode is worth some attention. Hopefully, something (anything!) will happen in the second season. Update 2016: I stopped watching the series early in the second season, but I’ve returned to it and watched it in the course of several weeks. The short first season turned out to be the initial flaw in something beautiful. What hurt it the most was that it didn’t have time to get anything proper going and you couldn’t bond with the characters. Fortunately, that gradually improves in the second season and the unexpected deaths of (even popular) characters begin to hurt. The best season for me is the third (thanks to the strong antagonist, the Governor), and then the fifth (the hopelessness of the first half and the drastic change of the situation during the second). Unfortunately, the latest season, the sixth, is a bit worse. I didn’t like some of the questionable decisions characters make that get them in trouble through their own fault, the incomprehensible screenwriting of some of the characters (WFT Carol?!) and that every new character that a little interesting doesn’t survive for more than a couple of episodes (there’ve been at least three deaths this season that really pissed me off, because they could have developed those characters much better).
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As far as this year’s TV series are concerned, The Walking Dead is the best thing to appear. Frank is talented and knows how to lay it on the people. He makes fans’ fantasies come true and adds elements that we don’t see that often in zombie movies, such as sympathy and sorrow (the scene with the bicycle girl with no legs, and the black man’s wife). The budget is very visible, it’s so powerful that you wouldn’t expect that this is a TV production. If you’ve seen The Fog, then you’ve seen how perfectly Frank handles journeys through apocalyptic landscape and, believe it or not, those journeys are even better, because it isn’t all clouded by fog. The finale in Atlanta is the absolute peak of this pilot. Those of the cast who we have met so far include Andrew Lincoln who fits perfectly into Rick Grimes’ shoes. We haven’t seen much of the others, so I had better keep any rushed conclusions to myself for the while. I can’t wait for episode two. Season one: The tops. Of all the series starting up this year, this one grabbed me the most. A faultless pilot is followed by juicy action, interspersed with ordinary survival in a desolate world. The scenes with the zombies aren’t so much terrifying as realistic. I already mentioned Rick and even though the whole cast’s acting is excellent, I would like to highlight Jon Bernthal’s Shane, who I grew to like toward the end, and Norman Reedus whose Daryl Dixon is just right. The finale left the door wide open for a continuation next season and now I have to wait a year to find out what on earth it was that he whispered to him! Season two: A long wait, but well worth it. A bubbling stewpot of emotions - that’s how I would describe this season. Shane quickly grew to being my favorite character, mainly thanks to his being the catalyst for things to happen. Changing the main characters drives this forward. The first half lays the foundations for the gigantic finale which has several fundamental and iconic moments. The final reanimation of the whole group and particularly Rick had my hair on end. But this was long needed. Currently the best series on air. So bring on season three. Jail awaits... Season three: Still the best series hands down. More episodes to watch with an atmosphere thick as bread dough. The main protagonists drop like flies so effectively, or heavily, that the it’ll take a long time for the TV to recover. Rick the emotional wreck is miles away from the dumb optimist in season one. Carl is turning into a killing machine, even the child armies of Africa have more pity. Daryl finally meets his brother and that is very emotional. But mainly the Governor appears here. He’s just awesome, you just can’t help loving him. David Morrissey works with his positive aura, actively radiating it and using it to manipulate and murder so matter-of-factly and justifiably that the viewer has no problem believing that the people of Woodbury would not want to follow him. The ending is a little patchy and honestly doesn’t promise any more adventures for Rick and his gang, but there is still a lot to tell and roads to take. Meek people like me... it’s us who inherited the earth. Honestly, season four drags out like gum and lacks the freshness and emotional depth of the preceding seasons, but still this is a series that’s worth watching because it has a tendency to be frequently very pleasantly surprising. It’s no longer so much about zombies, and apart from a couple of situations where they might turn up, the main evil is human nature and a disease decimating the cast. The biggest problem this season is farmer Rick. “Where’s that deranged, heartless nutcase?" the disappointed viewer asks. Well, the last episode answers that very satisfactorily. Terminus could hold a lot in store, but I hope that now - when conscience number two has kicked the bucket at last - the real fun can begin. Season five: Rick is back and also the chilling atmosphere in the flesh-eaters’ den, which is promising. The last series disappointed me a little, but here heartlessness returns right from the start. The journey to Washington is really heavy and the last few episodes are some of the best yet. The page has turned nicely, too bad the creators were afraid to go even a little further. In any case, I look forward again to another season, maybe I’ll even give that spin-off a try.
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It doesn't work on me. It doesn't work on me at all, just like everything that comes out and imitates the work of George A. Romero and his legendary Dawn of the Dead. Romero gave his little sheep... sorry, zombies qualities that unfortunately don't give them much hope of existence in a hostile world, where they would be subjected to competitive pressure. In nature, it's not the taller, heavier or stronger that triumphs, but the smarter one. In the real world, the unfortunate zombies would be brutally massacred by the living humans, who, despite the pressures of civilization in recent centuries, still retain a hidden instinctual aggression, which they unleash through hunting, various games, or war campaigns. Huge arsenals of armies, security forces, and all sorts of lunatics preparing for doomsday would quickly reduce their numbers to almost zero. If the zombie genre is not approached as a parody or significantly modified, then it simply misses the mark for me. By the way, it's quite interesting how the American film industry loves the end of civilization from a zombie invasion. I can imagine dozens of completely real collapses of civilization that no one bothers to adapt for the big screen, and these silly things are churned out one after another. One more thing I would specifically criticize Darabont for - although it's more of a job for the screenwriter - is that he approached his story more as a depiction of survival of an isolated community in the midst of a hostile world. If such a collapse really happened, I feel like I would have completely different concerns and would use completely different expressions and do completely different things than the protagonists of the series. I watched the first three episodes and then the final episode of the second season, and I painfully realized that I, as I often do, did a good job of predicting and understanding how it would all develop, including the character development. Overall impression: 45%.
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