I think he could have gotten the answer by tweaking that guy's nose, based on how he was acting…

Zombie stadium generator refueler—this week on Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe!

This is about the *one* thing that has impressed me about FTWD—having an appropriately-aged actor (born 1948) tied in with a traumatic real-world situation (late 70s-early 90s). Someone did a little homework!

That would have been a great relief.

Having read WWZ, I kept thinking "Those soldiers are firing too many bullets! Just one in the head!"

Maybe he'll just fling him over the top of the fence, since Nick weighs 120 pounds. Strand probably sized up the other guy as being too heavy to throw (his master plan).

I know—did he even ask "what is Cobalt" before starting his little torture spiel?

I also have no idea where the heck he is coming from:
"..and the people who won the last round with their grande lattes and frequent flier miles are about to become the buffet."

Is this show set in the future? if not, why is there a 40ish woman named Madison in it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

Is Marty McFly going to invent rap music this time?

True! Probably attributable to the cultural biases and insecurities of well-off LA showrunners and writers.

There are US shows that play around more with characters and our expectations, but TWD is more in the hack-y end of the pool. There's human "drama" but most of the characters end up as action figures with pseudo-issues.

But zombie-ness spreads so quickly in TWD universe. People are at least going to think there's a methhead-ish madness going around, since there are going to be many more stories and videos in addition to the one we saw. Curious to see how far it advances next week.

In this age of social media, all it's gonna take is one hospital worker to share photos and information on Facebook (which everybody uses), and it's on everyone's news feed. This is already an issue in hospitals everywhere, and a zombie outbreak is the biggest news possible.

Never get tired of 'disaffected teen girl on phone/with headphones on all the time' as a character…KIDS TODAY!

The 1981 version wasn't bad, despite the protagonist's beard. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j…

Watching this first episode kept reminding me of how well Shaun of the Dead set up the zombie infestation in the background, teasing the viewer's expectations—maybe to such a degree that it'll be hard to effectively do it straight.

However…the Olympics and the Royal Wedding did not originate as US TV network programming, so American viewers & networks didn't have much choice in the matter, much as any international viewers of the Oscars have to watch it when they can. I really can't imagine an American network *willingly* doing that to…

It doesn't seem plausible that they would blow their finale on a morning time slot, though, does it? Everyone would just read about it at work.

This bothered the hell out of me (distractingly) while watching the finale and afterward. UnREAL has been stretching the bounds of credibility the whole time, but this time zone business just seemed like very lazy writing, assuming (correctly, it seems) that most of its audience wouldn't think about it. Live…