The Walking Dead Review +++SPOILER ALERT+++

The walking dead is now on a bit of a mid-season break and so the question now is what do I do to get my zombie fix? The first thing I’ll do is look back at the first part of the current season.
     The series pretty much carries on from the 1st season with Rick Grimes and his fellow survivors playing hide and seek with the undead. The main plot points so far have been…
+ the hunt for Sofia (the young daughter of one of the survivors), who went missing in the 1st episode.
+Shane shooting a fellow survivor (Otis) in the leg so he could escape a hoard of Zombies. Otis ended up getting torn apart.
+The discovery of a farm that seems like the perfect sanctuary. That is until they discover that the owner of the farm (a veterinary called Hershel) is keeping Zombies locked in his barn.
The good thing about The Walking dead is that it is pretty good at tying up plots. It rarely leaves a plot hanging and often ends it in a truly shocking way. All of these plot points have been pretty much tied up leaving me excited for the 2nd half of the season wondering what madness is going to happen next.
     Another thing I like about this series is that it doesn’t sugar coat anything. The survivors are living in a world that is far different from ours. It is a world of no hope and no real future and the creators of The Walking Dead have painted the picture accordingly. If you haven’t watched this yet then I’m about to really spoil the show for you but this is a perfect example of the kind of show this is.
     Throughout the 7 episodes so far this season, the hunt for Sofia has pretty much dominated. There has been this faint hope that she would be found with signs of her being found everywhere. One or two of the survivors have even been seriously hurt in the hunt for her. Right at the end of episode 7, Shane takes matters into his own hands regarding the barn. He opens the barn doors and begins slaughtering the Zombies one by one. They think that it’s over until out of the darkness staggers one last Zombie, Sofia! It is left to Rick to shoot her in the head, delivering the audience with a true sucker punch. That is the kind of show that this is and it should come with a public health warning. Saying that, it is so fresh. It’s pretty rare to get a truly honest television show these days . The Walking Dead delivers a pretty honest portrayal of what life would be like were a zombie apocalypse to happen.
     It’s back on our screens in early February next year and I for one can’t wait.