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In this one, it appears that a lefty MoveOn.org activist is being dragged, pushed and stepped on by supporters of Rand Paul at an Oct. 25 candidate debate for the Kentucky Senate race. Set loose by West African and Caribbean voodoo traditions and later revivified as a Cold War-era, counterculture metaphor by George Romero’s campy “Night of the Living Dead” in 1968, zombies have proven themselves immune to the whims of monster trends and fads.
There’s Jane Austen’s Elizabeth Bennet with decomposed flesh falling off her chin on the cover of the best-selling “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.” There’s always a Facebook invite to yet another event where people dress up as zombies and slowly amble along the streets or shopping plazas. Imagine the founding fathers, up out of the soil that contained them, wormy and squirmy, watching the Don’t-Tread-on-Me crowd march by and stomp on dissenters. Join the crowd? Or eat them?
But an ongoing nightmare requires ongoing viewers, and therefore a show that stays strong as it goes along, if not one that gets better and better over time, and I’m not sold that “The Walking Dead” is that kind of show. Going into the show as someone without deep affection for either the genre or the source material, I still found myself riveted by the pilot episode, which will air in a 90-minute timeslot on Halloween. Written and directed by Darabont, it’s a master class in suspense filmmaking, of dread and atmosphere and grief.
(The zombies were designed by acclaimed make-up master Greg Nicotero, and understandably look fantastic/disgusting.) He takes a less-is-more approach to the score by Bear McCreary, letting long stretches play out with nothing but the sound of the wind, the creaking of doors, or the shuffling of zombie feet.
It’s wonderfully creepy, and then Darabont turns on the pathos as Rick makes the acquaintance of Morgan Jones (guest star Lennie James of “Jericho” fame) and his son Duane (Adrian Kali Turner), who have suffered a horrible, seemingly unending tragedy as part of this zombie apocalypse. That subplot’s pretty much beat-for-beat from Kirkman, and it plays out beautifully. (Though James does upstage Lincoln in the process.)Many of the zombie encounters in the pilot are one-on-one, as the focus is less on action than on conveying a feeling of loss. Rick fell asleep in one world and woke up in another. But it’s also possible that there’s a reason there’s never been a zombie TV series before that goes beyond the technical difficulties of pulling it off. Maybe the zombie apocalypse is a horror that’s better off in brief glimpses than as a story with no end in sight.
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