Can you expand on this? I never thought of it like that, and watched for the first ~4 seasons (largely because I had quite enjoyed the comic up until that point)
The shows have almost identical tropes. Danger is only exceeded by drama, acting is all hyper emotional, characters are killed off for dramatic effect, random acts of betrayal, etc.
It’s not? If you replace zombies with criminals you have the exact same show. Hyper emotional people, random acts of betrayal, characters dying for dramatic effect, nonsensical relationships, etc
Meh, cop drama with zombies sucked to begin with
Look closer, they are quite literally the exact same formula
Can you expand on this? I never thought of it like that, and watched for the first ~4 seasons (largely because I had quite enjoyed the comic up until that point)
The shows have almost identical tropes. Danger is only exceeded by drama, acting is all hyper emotional, characters are killed off for dramatic effect, random acts of betrayal, etc.
It did feel formulaic to me in how every episode basically followed the same pattern of:
-Inciting incident from last episode’s conclusion dealt with
-quiet down time for female characters to babble / setup upcoming interpersonal conflicts
-brief taste of the ol’ ultra violence
-more prolonged babbling
-high tension incident set up for next episode
But not the police procedural formula - it was like a really poorly written Breaking Bad imo
It’s not? If you replace zombies with criminals you have the exact same show. Hyper emotional people, random acts of betrayal, characters dying for dramatic effect, nonsensical relationships, etc