In 2010, succumbing to fads create their own series, the American cable channel AMC ordered development of the project director and screenwriter Frank Darabont, the famous film "The Green Mile" and "The Shawshank Redemption." Thus was born the drama "The Walking Dead", which was to turn the idea of ​​a TV serial.

Waking up after the end of the world

The drama "The Walking Dead" tells the story of a group of people surviving after being on the planet came the zombie apocalypse. Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), wounded during a firefight policeman, wakes up in a hospital after a long coma and realizes that, while he slept, the world changed forever, now it belongs to the living dead.

Once out of the hospital, Rick goes in search of his wife Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) and son Carl (Chandler Riggs) to Atlanta, where he learns the beginning evacuated healthy. Along the way he meets people from the camp survivors, among them it finds and their loved ones. Together with a small group of strangers, the family Grimes travels across America in search of a safe haven, and those who also managed to escape.

Zombies are relevant in any weather

"The Walking Dead" is based on the eponymous comic book series by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard. The idea to move hand-drawn story to the screen belonged to Frank Darabont, he became a developer wrote and directed the first season of the show. The track record Darabont had previously been both successful and failed projects, therefore, ordering series, AMC risk, but the risk paid off.

The series was released and surpassed all expectations. Six episodes of the first season called critical acclaim, jubilation among fans of the zombie apocalypse, and brought the creators of several nominations for the "Golden Globe", including in the category of "Best television series - drama." AMC Channel was also pleasantly surprised by high ratings and, without thinking twice, extended the "walking dead" for a second season.

However, as is the case with successful projects, it was not without scandal. After the end of the first season of the series and left it showrunner Frank Darabont mastermind, allegedly due to creative differences with the channel, which is that Darbont wanted for his creation all the best, and the channel was trying to cut the budget of each series. However, on the success of "The Walking Dead," a change of leadership is not affected, the premiere of the second season showed record ratings for cable television. In a subsequent series I lost another showrunner and was extended for a third, fourth and fifth seasons.

Components of success

The success of "The Walking Dead" laid together incongruous and playing archetypes. Even those who do not like movies about zombies addicted intricacies of plot lines and acting. Against the background scenery ensuing post-apocalypse before the audience played the classic human tragedy, betrayal, treason Treason: Fall or loyalty to yourself? The loss of loved ones.

Heroes live in the household screen drama, clear, close, appeals to viewers the ability to empathize and understand. Zombies in this universe are secondary, they exist as an element reinforcing the dramatic effect of constant external threat, a kind of supplement to the gloomy atmosphere of the inner loneliness Loneliness - this is not new, or why am I still alone? Experienced by each character.

Rick Grimes, played by Andrew Lincoln - a stern hero with a gun in his belt, he goes ahead and leads the people, as the leader of a caring but demanding, the embodiment of a new order in the world where there are no laws. He is the central figure of the story. However, he's not a superhero, he is human, and it is its main advantage.

The cast of the show - an important component of its popularity, in addition to Andrew Lincoln, perfectly fulfills its role in "The Walking Dead" played John Bernthal, Stephen Yong, Jeffrey Demanov, Laurie Holden, Emma Bell, Michael Rooker, Norman Reedus, and many others.

The gap between feature films and serials dramas gradually decreases, today they are not inferior either in quality or skill, for shooting the actors in the series into a class of paid work and the critics.

The appearance of the series "The Walking Dead" and its growing popularity - one of the first harbingers of a new era of American cable television, born today projects such as "True Detective" and "Game of Thrones", it is clear that this area is developing and will develop further as demand for high-quality drama series is extremely high.

Anna Chizh

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