I'm hopelessly out of it, I guess. Never had any interest in seeing this series. Since "Person of Interest" ended, there's no TV series anywhere that Mr. M and I watch, except for NYPD Blue reruns and Barnwood Builders.
@mountaineer It had already been airing for several years before I ever tuned in to see if I could understand why so many people liked it. I do NOT go for horror movies,and being afraid of monsters that can only shamble along as 1 MPH,can't climb,have no brains,no defense,and growl to warn you they are coming made no sense at all.
Then I watched the first episode and figured out the zombies were just a "tool" to sell a show about survival after "The World As We Know It Comes To An End",and it clicked. It's a first rate series about survival,the sacrifices that will have to be made,the changes in thinking that have to be made to survive,and about how people from different backgrounds and cultures will have to come together to form a new society if any of them want to survive.
They could have used a giant Asteroid crashing into the Earth as a plot anchor if they had wanted,but that type of thing had been done several times before,so I guess they settled on Zombies to pull in the young crowd and to be different.