AMC's "The Walking Dead" Greenlit for Season 2 | Techland

Two episodes into its first season, AMC’s zombie-show The Walking Dead has already been greenlit for season two.

Now, we could have said “I told you so,” but we’ll let the numbers speak for themselves. 4.7 million people tuned into “Guts” this Sunday, a slight decrease from the 5.3 million who watched the premiere. It’s still ahead of AMC’s other hit Mad Men, which only averaged 3 million viewers an episode this last season.

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“The Dead has spread!” AMC President Charlie Collier said in an emailed statement. “No other cable series has ever attracted as many Adults 18-49 as The Walking Dead. This reaffirms viewers’ hunger for premium television on basic cable. We are so proud to be bringing back The Walking Dead again, across the globe.”

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We love this show because it’s not just about the undead, but about human nature in light of tragedy. It makes for moving drama, which can appeal to everyone. “What’s so wonderful about The Walking Dead is that we’re able to explore human nature at its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode,” executive producer Gale Anne Hurd said in the production notes for the show. “We strip each character down to their most basic survival instincts – or lack thereof. It’s actually the zombies who are the most predictable: you know what zombies are after. What you can’t anticipate is how one surviving human is going to interact with another. And that’s what keeps the series fresh and compelling.”

Sadly, since the first season is only six episodes long, we’re almost half way through the first series. Knowing the saga isn’t going to end in a few weeks, though, is something we can all look forward to. Let’s just hope for next season to be a lot longer.

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chimparzan

This show has been great so far, glad to hear it got a second season. On my first viewing of episode 2 I was a little wary of how much the show strays from the books but I think they are doing better than expected with the changes made. Rick went from “bewildered just woke up in the apocolypse guy” to “hardened its us versus them guy” a little too fast though, his character hinted at what I expected to see in about 3 or 4 episodes in, not right away.
anubus

I think the show has been great as well, really happy with the quality of the show and the effort put in by everyone involved. Glad it got picked up for the second season!
http://corriemasterlee.wordpress.com corrie1976

this show is great. i haven’t read the books but this is the only tv show i can remember that has my stomach clenching up waiting for the next thing to happen. The characters are entertaining and pull you in. the only negative thing i can say is the timeline seems a little off to me–Rick was in the hospital for weeks but didn’t starve? and his wife seemed to move on quickly and why did she leave him? did they just assume he was dead in the hospital?
redishbaron

@corrie1976

I, too, have been trying to figure out how long Rick was in the hospital. Long enough for the flowers Shane brought to get all dried out and nasty (2 weeks?) but not long enough for him to die of thirst after his IV ran out. I think Kirkman himself said it best in an interview, when asked a similar question, “Who cares?” (I think that’s almost verbatim). Essentially meaning that the little nitpicky things don’t actually matter in a story like this, it’s the characters and their own actions and reactions to others.

But it still bugs me.

As to Lori hooking up with Shane, they do expand on that a little in the comic. They essentially left Rick at the last possible moment thinking he would never wake up and that the dead would get him. She basically thinks she will never see him again and it might be better for him to die in the coma never seeing what the world turned into.

In the comic she only has sex with Shane once, more as a desperate I-need-human-comfort thing, rather than my-husband-is-dead-it’s-sexy-time thing. Plus she really feels bad about it afterward. I’m not sure I like how they changed it up for the show. On one hand I can understand it; she thinks Rick’s dead after all. But on the other hand, she seems a little too…eager.
http://davidcrumbs.wordpress.com davidcrumbs

I didn’t know there was a book on the series, but I think this show is great! bits an peices I think are missing from the show but it might work out in the end… I want to know why they are way up in the hills far away from the city but still can see it from the outpost… I also have one more question, why are there only 6 episodes in a season.. is there going to be 2 seasons in one year or what… I do think the producers need a little more action in the creation of the series, try to take Resident Evil’s new Zombies and recreate something that hasen’t been thought of… but other than that I do like the series the way it is, just twist it up a little!!!
http://jeffcontreras.wordpress.com jeffcontreras

they need to make a second season this show is by far one of the best i ever seen I liked since the first episode. Is there going to be a second season on the walking dead
chimparzan

@jeffcontreras
Thankfully the show got renewed for a 12 episode second season, I think the second season was greenlighted after the first or second episode aired.