Who Is The Walking Dead?
With a respectable rating of 85% on popular television and movie review site, Rotten Tomatoes, it is easy to see The Walking Dead has effectively made a positive impression on its large viewer base. The Walking Dead has repeatedly set and broken viewership records throughout its six seasons as the most watched non-sports program on cable television. Rotten Tomatoes has no shortage of films with perfect 100% ratings, yet somehow record-breaking powerhouse, The Walking Dead, falls short of a perfect rating. Based on actor talent, visual effects, and writing, we will evaluate the popular zombie filled horror/drama in an attempt to understand why the show loses appeal to some viewers.
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The threat of death is constant, but the show excels at using character deaths to propel story arcs and explore the residual effects a character’s demise has on the overall story. Because of the writers’ emphasis on character development, The Walking Dead must continuously seek out exceedingly talented actors to fill their roles. In 2012, the show won a Satellite Award for best cast. Cast members lucky enough to make it from the shows inception to the end of the current season have a multitude of awards and nominations to show for their endeavors. Melissa McBride, Chandler Riggs, and Andrew Lincoln have won awards for Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a television series, Best Supporting Actress on television, and Best Actor on television, respectively. Amongst themselves, these three actors have a combined total of thirty-one nominations and fifteen awards for performances throughout their careers. The Walking Dead presents viewers with an unbelievable world only a consistently strong cast can carry, luckily the show has a tremendous depth of talent to do the …show more content…
Linda Stasi, writer for The New York Post, describes The Walking Dead as, “the flat-out scariest, best, most unusual show to ever hit the small screen.” If the amount of records broken by The Walking Dead are any indication, the writers must be on to something. The show’s genre blending style, stellar cast, and outstanding visual effects team, have been essential to the its success; however, The Walking Dead’s reluctance to feature a more consistent zombie presence has inevitably left some viewers
In order to understand where some fans feel let down, we must …show more content…
The threat of death is constant, but the show excels at using character deaths to propel story arcs and explore the residual effects a character’s demise has on the overall story. Because of the writers’ emphasis on character development, The Walking Dead must continuously seek out exceedingly talented actors to fill their roles. In 2012, the show won a Satellite Award for best cast. Cast members lucky enough to make it from the shows inception to the end of the current season have a multitude of awards and nominations to show for their endeavors. Melissa McBride, Chandler Riggs, and Andrew Lincoln have won awards for Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a television series, Best Supporting Actress on television, and Best Actor on television, respectively. Amongst themselves, these three actors have a combined total of thirty-one nominations and fifteen awards for performances throughout their careers. The Walking Dead presents viewers with an unbelievable world only a consistently strong cast can carry, luckily the show has a tremendous depth of talent to do the …show more content…
Linda Stasi, writer for The New York Post, describes The Walking Dead as, “the flat-out scariest, best, most unusual show to ever hit the small screen.” If the amount of records broken by The Walking Dead are any indication, the writers must be on to something. The show’s genre blending style, stellar cast, and outstanding visual effects team, have been essential to the its success; however, The Walking Dead’s reluctance to feature a more consistent zombie presence has inevitably left some viewers