Just finished the first season of the walking dead so here's my little review of it.
~may contain spoilers~

The season starts off suspenseful with the protagonist looking for gas, instead, discovering a zombie girl, and proceeding to shoot her in the head. Here, we see the what is in store for us, about every 5 minutes throughout the rest of the season. I still do not know how this little snippet links in with the rest of the story line as I'm finding it difficult to pin point a time where this even could have actually occured. (Must have been after he was shot and healed as the virus was not known beforehand and he would have freaked-like he initially did after the hospital, but then he goes another path so hmmm...)
Oooh, I thoroughly enjoyed the hospital scene, well the little corridor part anyway, leading up to the door because the background just looked amazing and depleted (also shown in episode six).
After this chilling event, things get a little slow as depth is added to the plot and he wonders around slowly and aimlessly (which is all back-storied in the last ep anyway).
In most episodes, the best parts are about 10 seconds before the completion (especially the first ep)
Progressing through the season, it becomes less scary to watch, by yourself, in the dark, at night.. after the initial gore in the first episode and subsequent loud noises.
On thing on sounds is however, that it keeps jumping so it is difficult to maintain a constant level unless you want the whole cinema-feel in which case you'd have the volume on max the whole time, with periodic inclines and declines of sound randomly.
The zombies are portrayed quite well, if not the best I have seen and they even attended zombie school (during shooting) in order to master the walk. Make-up is also done extremely well and they are very realistic-looking, which just makes the graphic scenes of chopped heads and half-eaten bodies all the more chilling and gruesome.
Relationships between characters form as expected and yet I am still left wondering what the characters names are upon finishing. But maybe, that's due to my own goldfish memory.
On thing I did enjoy however, was the fact that almost every little thing becomes apparently significant at one point or another.
Hmm, as many twists and turns that are put into the plot, there is still that inevitable zombie-apocalypse-so-this-whole-thing-will-be-about-survival thought in the back of my head. But there's really no way around that.
There are stark similarities in some parts with When the War Began but admittedly, I loved that movie. Well, the first half, and temper trap in the soundtrack.
This show is quite good, but would have been perfect if it weren't for the whole focus on pretty much just survival because straight story lines aren't the most interesting thing to follow.
Oh yeah, there was also about 5 seconds of passion but this isn't that type of show so I didn't really expect much more in that department.
Some aspects are really obvious so the show fluffs around in some parts but then again there are some situations where you wonder how on earth they can escape/move on.

So overall, I give season one: ★★★★☆ (that's four out of five stars for those who struggle)
And I'd like to remind you that this is actually quite a high rating! And although I am a huge wimp, I enjoyed being frightened sometimes. Some.




au revoir. xo