Keeping Up With the Dead

If you were thinking the zombie craze wasn’t back in full swing after the series premiere last week, you know that’s not the case now.

Make no mistake about it; AMC’s “The Walking Dead” is the best show on television right now.

Despite the fact that many comic book readers may feel that the changes and new characters added take away from the beauty of the inspired work, the show is still stellar from start to finish.

In spite of that, it’s hard not to agree with the fan boys. The changes made in episode two were ones made to bring in a talented actor like Michael Rooker and to make the story more appealing to the masses, rather than to push the ideas of Robert Kirkman’s George Romero-inspired world of death, loneliness and self-discovery. While those motifs are still all there in the show, many will argue that the scenes covered in this episode didn’t need to be changed and mainstream fans would have ate it up anyway.

We’ll never know if that’s indeed the case though. The same thing goes for why the writers have decided to tone down Tyrese’s character, making him much weaker than the former NFLer and zombie-killing madman he is in the comic. We’ll just have to wait and see how much this ends up impacting the series in the future.

Again, these things only make fans of the comic scratch their heads, as a newbie to the series will think everything going on is fantastic. Between the excellent production values and top-notch acting, it’s too hard not to fall in love with this show, even if you hate zombies. At this point, the first two episodes have flown by and next Sunday can’t come fast enough.

With the crew out of downtown Atlanta and Rick about to reunite with his family, the already frenetically paced show is about to get a little bit crazier.

The only question is with two nearly perfect episodes already under its belt, how long can this series keep this up?

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14230 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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