Recently, as discussed on the ZRC’s twitter, I binge reviewed all of ‘The Walking Dead’ up on Netflix, in anticipation of the upcoming release of the fourth season in August.

There are a lot of things one can say about the world of ‘The Walking Dead’. (Mild spoilers below)

–Skulls are very, very soft. Be gentle! Everyone should wear helmets. Especially the Zombies. Err, Walkers.

–The CDC has a spiffy headquarters apparently modeled after the War Room in Dr. Strangelove. There’s a lot of that going around lately though.

–Everyone is really, really bad at spotting lies. It’s a schemer’s paradise! At least until a Season Finale.

As for characters, I mostly found myself wondering why everyone trusts Shane, nobody watches Carl, and nobody tells the Governor that it’s easier to recruit people to your budding civilization if you don’t shoot them repeatedly.

And then there’s Michonne. Oh, Michonne and her magic sword. Which never chips, never needs sharpening, never even seems to need cleaning.

Still, Michonne’s pretty likable compared to the rest of the cast. She may be a paranoid, violent, sword-toting carnage machine, but at least she keeps the monologuing to a minimum.

It hardly needs to be said, but ‘The Walking Dead’ Seasons 1-3 easily earned our lowest rating, that of Living Supremacist.

Tags: Robert Kirkman, Television

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