TRAILER TUESDAY RETURNS FROM THE DEAD!
APROAPRIATELY ENOUGH
WITH THE WALKING DEAD!
American Movie Classics brings back The Walking Dead with a
second season of thirteen episodes. If you missed out on the first season of
six episodes, here is the official synopsis from AMC for season one:
Waking up in an empty hospital after weeks in a coma, County
Sheriff Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) finds himself utterly alone. The world as
he knows it is gone, ravaged by a zombie epidemic. The Walking Dead tells the
story of the weeks and months that follow after the apocalypse. Based on Robert
Kirkman's hugely successful and popular comic book series, AMC's The Walking
Dead is an epic, edge-of-your-seat drama where personal struggles are magnified
against a backdrop of moment-to-moment survival. A survivalist story at its
core, the series explores how the living are changed by the overwhelming
realization that those who survive can be far more dangerous than the mindless
walkers roaming the earth. They themselves have become the walking dead.
Here is the official plot tease from AMC for season two:
The Walking Dead is back with its much anticipated second
season. When we last left the The Walking Dead, the characters were in the
midst of a high-intensity struggle to survive, fleeing the CDC as it burst into
flames. In Season 2, they are still on the move, facing more threats and
obstacles than ever. Rick leads the group out of Atlanta. On the highway, they
are stopped by a threat unlike anything they have seen before. The group
searches for someone who has gone missing.
There has been some controversy surrounding the second
season. In July 2011, series developer and showrunner Frank Darabont stepped
down from his position as showrunner for the series, with believed reasoning he
was unable to adjust to the schedule of running a television series. Executive
producer Glen Mazzara will be the series' new showrunner. Darabont's sudden departure further sparked
controversy in August when The Hollywood Reporter broke a story revealing that
Darabont had in fact been fired due to issues of the show's reduced budget and
a strained relationship with AMC executives. Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt
Sutter went off on Frank Darabont being fired as showrunner of The Walking Dead
on Twitter saying, “Darabont reacted strongly to slashed budgets. He made
mistakes, he was fired." "No
creative in town will trust AMC to back up their artists." "I don't
know MW, got no beef with him. Just hate that Darabont is being demonized. No
one has the balls to tell the truth. MM gutted AMC.” Regardless of the reasons
for the changes in season two’s showrunner and purported reduced budget, I as a
fan of the show can only hope that the quality of the show remains as high as
the first season.
I have only read the first six issues of the Image Comics
that The Walking Dead is based on and didn’t enjoy it enough to continue
reading it. The Walking Dead is continuing to be published as a monthly
black-and-white comic book series. The comic was created by writer Robert Kirkman
and artist Tony Moore, who was replaced by Charlie Adlard from issue #7 onward.
The comics series has already run to 89 issues, so there is plenty of stories
for the AMC TV series to draw on. Readers of the comic have already been warned
by producers of the show that the AMC series will not follow the comics series
plot exactly.
Season 2 of The Walking Dead premieres with a 90-minute
episode on Sun., Oct. 16 at 9/8c. After the first seven episodes air, the
series will go on hiatus, and then return on February 12, 2012, where the final
six episodes of the season will begin airing.
Enjoy the trailer for The Walking Dead, Season
Two!
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