- Network: AMC
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 31, 2010
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The Walking Dead, the flat-out scariest, best, most unusual show to ever hit the small screen, is back, and I'm loving every sickening minute of it.
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Sunday is a blast. Heads will roll, and roll well. The gore quotient is through the roof. And finally this guarantee--there is one, maybe even two, spots where you will yell out at the screen, "Oh, my God, that just didn't happen." Yes, the new season is that good.
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If you can handle it, The Walking Dead is grade-A terror.
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The Walking Dead has managed to work fresh morsels into television's grimmest stew. [22 Oct 2012, p.41]
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While Mazzara has amped up the action, he doesn't skimp on the angst.
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This is way too well-made a series to be dubbed a "guilty pleasure," even if a sizable percentage of the audience may watch purely for the visceral thrills of all that weekly bloodletting.
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Dead is always at its most unsettling--and poignant--when its characters have a moment to breathe and to address their dark, nightmarish world.
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The Walking Dead is excellent with action, with suspense, and with atmosphere, and these early episodes have all three in spades.
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The kill count is unprecedented, and before all is said and done, Rick will have to make a terrible, terrible choice while the fate of one of his own hangs in the balance. [12/19 Oct 2012, p.97]
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If early episodes are any indication, Season 3 will provide a glorious payoff for those EST-ian weeks down on the farm.
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The Walking Dead can still surprise us that way. And that's one of the reasons why we must keep watching.
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Just the beginning scene, which lasts almost six minutes before anyone says a word, will plunge everyone right back into a world where there may be no way out.
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Tactical wins, taut storytelling and zombies munching tasty, tasty braaaaains: All that plus the addition of Michonne and David Morrissey as the Governor in upcoming episodes make me pretty damned happy that The Walking Dead is back.
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That the show delivered so ably under the stewardship of Glen Mazzara makes season three less surprising but no less riveting, with the first couple of episodes offering a buffet of character, tension and the inevitable can-you-top-this, stomach-churning gore.
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The show is at its best when the confrontational tension among the humans is palpable.
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There's still a sense that The Walking Dead is shambling along too lackadaisically. Great pulp is propulsive, ruthless. But the show's embrace of "B"-movie values is a heartening sign.
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The Walking Dead is extremely realistic about the decayed, vast, destroyed world, and dopily idealistic about its main character.
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Plenty of new challenges await the survivors, led by Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), whose performance as a man who's had ruthlessness thrust upon him continues to be a series highlight.
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Sunday's premiere doesn't advance the story much--shades of early season two--but there's enough zombie carnage that fans of mayhem may not care.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 1,167 out of 1471
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Mixed: 116 out of 1471
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Negative: 188 out of 1471
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