Given the ubiquity of zombie films, it was impressive to say the least that The Walking Dead managed to inject fresh life (sorry) into the genre, albeit on the small screen which necessarily gives more space for developing better fleshed-out (sorry) character arcs and mythology. At a tight and pacy six episodes, season one was gripping, visceral, affecting stuff and left all of us hungry for more (last time, I promise).
If IMDb is to be believed, we’re looking at 13 episodes for season 2 and so I have everything crossed, hoping it won’t result in a dilution of quality, or a dearth of good ideas. The US will see it in the autumn and presumably we in the UK will get it, as before, on F/X and then Channel 5.
Collider have posted a trailer for season 2, though it describes it as a fan teaser. Who knows? It looks good, that’s all I’ll say for the time being. We’ve had a poster to feast on already (okay, maybe one more), with some troublingly funky looking eyes and this teaser gives us precious little else to go on, other than the blessed assurance that season 2 is on the way and we don’t have long to wait.
Roll on autumn.
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