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Thinking about it - there are some specific things that are pissing me off about it. First, the idea that the only teenager aware of what is happening, is the geeky loner kid is ridiculous. There's been like one video that went out on social media and the only person who saw it seems to be this kid. This is like the internet circa 2000, the speed that information and buzz is happening.
We're like 24-48 hours into the beginnings of people eating other people's faces off and hardly anybody is talking about it - videos haven't gone viral and school kids are clueless.
The second thing that is pissing me off is that the characters, for the most part seem pretty flat and uninteresting. I'm hoping they'll get better and draw me in, but right now I'm so not feeling it, for the most part. They seem like a family designed by a committee to show-case the modern concept of family. Aside from the drug addict son, none of them seem to have any on-screen presence or charisma.
It is tense at times - I'll give it that. And some really lovely moments where, with what we know of where they're headed we see people doing very normal things that we know will become very dangerous things, very quickly - like the paramedics wrapping the bite wounds of the police officer who was bitten in the riot and climbing into an ambulance with him.
Not sure how long us knowing what they're about to face can sustain the narrative though. I'm hoping if I stick with it that I might warm to the characters a bit. Walking Dead would not have sustained as long as it has without compelling and charismatic characters. During times when the meta story hasn't been up to scratch, the characters kept me watching. I'd watch that cast of characters for a whole season of narrative stalling.
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