“Don’t open it, it’s dead inside”: These are the first words that Sheriff Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) finds on one of the doors of the hospital in which he has just woken up from a long coma. He quickly realizes that the world in which he lived has changed a lot: an epidemic of unknown origin, the awakening of the dead, the remaining survivors trying to survive by any means (ethical or not), a wife and a son that he must now find. : Thus begins the terrifying adventure of the Walking Dead.
In 2010, the zombie series debuted on the small screen. Adapted from the black-and-white comics, with a screenplay by Robert Kirkman, who also produced the show, it quickly captivated its audience. Anything goes in TWD (for those close to you): The series is deep in horror and doesn’t shy away from breaking our hearts. After all, no character is safe, and saying goodbye is heartbreaking.
If the first season was interested in an average of “only” 5.2 million Americans at that time – already a record for the cable channel AMC -, from the second everything explodes. The show’s rise back then was meteoric: in 2014, the first episode of Season 5 drew no fewer than 17.3 million viewers, becoming the most-watched series episode in American cable history and making TWD one of the most-watched programs ever. time.
and its success Walking Dead It’s more than just a zombie story – a word that’s never mentioned in the series. It is primarily about humanity and what will become of it when society collapses and laws evaporate. The “walkers” really become a secondary threat when the biggest “bad guys” of the series appear: the Governor, Negan, Alpha… so many “people” who won’t hesitate to go (too) far. We still haven’t gotten over one of the series’ most tragic — and most graphic — scenes in the infamous first episode of Season 7: thank Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and his barbed wire-wrapped baseball named Lucille for that. trauma.
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From the height of his 11 seasons almighty walking Dead Create a real franchise. To date, it’s the mother of six spin-offs (in addition to four web series): from Fear The Walking Dead (2015-2023) to The Walking Dead: Rick & Michonne , set to debut in 2024, the TWD universe can handle more . than ever before. In the meantime, we’re bringing you back to basics with an original series that’s ready to be watched in its entirety. be ready
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