It’s no secret that I love zombies. I love black and white zombie flicks, George Romano, fast zombies, slow zombies, zombie games. Anything that involves corpses, guns, apocalypses, survival and lots of ohlordI’mgoingtodie moments makes me very happy. 

But I can’t seem to like the Walking Dead. I should like it. What I’ve read of the comic (I can’t claim to be like, the biggest Walking Dead fan ever) was cool. The series looked good and the first season ended ok, nothing big, nothing awesome. The effects are epic and I love how they can come up with the grossest zombies ever. The tension and build-up is okay, the cinematography is fine (except a lot of it involves green, forest, foresty areas that bores me to death etc). But I just can’t seem to get behind the characters. All I want to do is let them die. Especially Lori and Carl. Especially that useless girl who doesn’t do anything but complain. If you can’t figure out who that is, it’s because everyone in this series complains. Except Daryl. And maybe Glenn. 

Hence the memes: 

More here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/the-best-memes-from-the-walking-dead-season-two

I read a comment once in a forum that said “If they blow up everyone in this series and start it again with a brand new cast, I couldn’t be happier.” Whoever said that summed up exactly what I feel.

I know the metaphor for the series is the characters are also the walking dead, blahblah, struggle to survive but dead inside, blahblah, hard choices, blahblah, changing mores, blahblah. But seriously, I wish people were just smarter. 

Here are my points for this tiny review:

• Apparently nobody’s ever heard of silencers/suppressors, which unlike in the movies do not completely muffle the sound of gunshots, but they can prevent zombies from miles away from hearing where the hell you are.
• Bawal mag-perimeter defense? BAWAL? You got yourself a sweet farm. Maybe you all should spend less time crying and making up drama and problems for yourself and build a goddamn moat. With landmines or I don’t know, spikes made out of wood. A mire. Water. A wall of dead zombies to throw them off the scent. 
• On that same note, fuel runs out. It’s a good idea to keep a supply handy. But nobody in this series has a contingency plan. It’s more like, well, run like hell. 
• Why the hell do you have to go to the same pharmacy several times when you want supplies? Why don’t you just take everything? 
• After dodging zombie herds and hordes and surviving for an unspecified number of weeks/months/days, this is the only time you think that hey, maybe I should conserve some ammo? Whatever gave you that idea? The fact that perhaps this is a permanent situation? 
• Teach your stupid kids to fend for themselves! Half the time Lori has no idea where her son is because she’s too busy mindfucking everyone else. I mean, what part of stay here did Sophie not understand? 

I really want this series to be good, but I’m not looking forward to Season 3.

The writers really did a good job here, because there’s definitely nothing wrong when your viewers hate the cast so much that when the little child gets into trouble the people on the couch are shouting: “Eat him! Please! EAAATTTT HIMMM!”