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It is connected Trace, yes - it is a prequel of sorts showing the beginnings of the outbreak that preceded Rick awakening in hospital to an apocalyptic world.
The strain ... I wanted to like it. I had the audiobooks of the trilogy and I made it to halfway through the second one before the cardboard characters and cliched dialogue finally beat me into submission and I gave up. At the time I thought it read like a screenplay more than a novel (as it turns out, they wrote it with a view to making it into a tv show so not so far off in that assessment), and a really creaky screenplay at that. Then the tv show started and I was hyped thinking it would make much more sense on the screen. But the dialogue is, if anything, even worse on the tv version than it was in the books. The characters piss me off. They routinely do stupid shit. And neither of the writers has the slightest concept of how to write a female character that is anything other than a crutch, or spur for the male characters. That annoyed me in the book, but I figured with a tv budget and a writers room maybe they'd do something about that. Nope.
I dunno. I like the gore and stuff. I like some good schlock horror. But it has soooo much wrong with it.
I'm not even gonna go into the baaaad wig that Eph's sporting. That's the kind of thing I'm happy to forgive if the show earns it in other ways.
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