The Walking Dead’s debut episode had 5.3 million viewers, making it AMC’s highest rated show and the highest rated cable debut of the year:

The show, which was originally scheduled to premiere a week earlier but was pushed back to Halloween because of a football game, opened with more than 5.3 million viewers — the largest numbers ever for an AMC original series (so Brett Favre can still influence an outcome nowadays?). In the adults 18 to 49 demo, the show earned an average of 3.6 million viewers, making it 2010’s highest cable debut.

America, is this really the kind of entertainment you want? Violence against oppressed minorities, or at least, Hollywood actors dressed as them and covered in karo syrup and food coloring?

What’s next? Do we go back to bread and circuses?

Appalling.

Tags: Robert Kirkman, Social Justice, Television

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