A BREATHTAKING PORTRAIT OF THE END OF DAYS: I like zombies, and I like TV, so I -- ouch, what the -- was already pretty excited for Sunday's premiere of AMC's Walking Dead, which is basically the next Mad Men, except that the style is tattered instead of retro and Pete Campbell is decaying and people order their scotch with grey matter, not ice. Then I saw the fan-made unofficial credits, and my excitement boiled over into a, I don't know, a dull, aching hunger, a hunger, a hurrrrrrrr hurrrrr
braaaains
Great--who's got the shotgun?
ReplyDeleteMuch, much more efficient than a lawnmower. Don't forget to double tap.
ReplyDelete<span>Much, much more efficient than a lawnmower. Don't forget to double tap.</span>
ReplyDeleteI was not sure I was going to tivo this one at first, but I think it will get at least sampled.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I have to trick my fiancee into halloween costumes each year as I am an actor/performer/artist and LURVE costumes and he is a computer geek/jazz piano player and feels all costumes but tuxedos are silly and tuxedos are not costumes so much as what is required of a performer.
Anyway. This year, I am going to zombie up and tell him not to worry about his costume. Until we go out when I will lurch towards him calling for brains, and he will be enforced into my plans as victim!!!
No way. Not watching this. Don't like scary TV and movies. I even found last night's Community too oogie-inducing for my tastes. No way no how no brains for me, thank you.
ReplyDeleteAh, yes. I'm out of town on Halloween, but the DVR is set.
ReplyDeleteCan't decide on this show because I'm not sure I actually like zombie-related entertainment that takes itself 100% seriously. I've thoroughly enjoyed Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland and last night's Community, but have been meh on the actual zombie flicks I've seen.
ReplyDeleteI'm certainly in.
ReplyDeleteThis does, of course, require a link to some Jonathan Coulton:
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I'm in. I think this does call for some Jonathan Coulton:
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We were just listening to this today. I am strangely proud that my children enjoy singing the chorus.
ReplyDeleteAlong with "The Lumberjack Song" its one of the songs you can most commonly catch my 2.5 year old signing to herself.
ReplyDeleteRule 1: Cardio.
ReplyDeleteI'm down, naturally.
And Coulton's "Re: Your Brains" is priceless. Humming it to myself is always a good antidote for flashbacks to my biglaw days. (We're not unreasonable: no one's going to eat your eyes.) I keep meaning to get back to Vietnam so I can declare him a "fave".
I've been reading the comic it's based on for years, and when you throw Frank Darabont and Gale Anne Hurd into the mix it's just a match made in nerdvana.
ReplyDeleteThis only looks like the most awesomest awesome that ever awesomed. So yeah, I'll be watching. Been TiVoing "Dead Set" off IFC this week too, so it'll be a major zombiefest once I sit down with it all.
ReplyDeleteThinking about TWD made me think of the last stateside attempt at a zombie TV show -- "Babylon Fields," which went to pilot with Amber Tamblyn and Ray Stevenson (and ALOTT5MA near-fave Finn DeTrollio!) a few years ago. I always wondered why it didn't make it to air. Well, someone put the pilot online, and I don't have to wonder anymore.
ReplyDeleteI had never heard this before. Awesome!
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ReplyDeleteI'd like to thank everyone posting in this thread for the cornucopia of new or new-to-me zombie-related things for my dvr.
ReplyDeleteThe big problem is that my DVR is having a small clog on Sunday nights already, what with needing to pad TAR, Bored to Death (I dropped Boardwalk Empire, despite my admiration for it, because I found it more good than enjoyable), Desperate Housewives (Vanessa Williams has reinvigorated the show), Brothers and Sisters, Sherlock, and now this.
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