Has The Walking Dead ever produced a more iconic image than Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) riding into an abandoned Atlanta via an empty highway? It’s a wonderfully bleak shot that establishes the tone flawlessly, and its reputation has spread so far that even people who have never watched the show can recognize it.
Seemingly AMC also realized its power considering how much they slapped it on every piece of marketing for the show’s first season – a season that, in retrospect, feels like it belongs from an entirely different show.
There was a time when The Walking Dead was considered prestige television, talked about in the same way as fellow AMC shows like Breaking Bad and Mad Men.
But those days are long gone, and now The Walking Dead seems to exist simply because watching the latest episode has become part of our weekly routine.
Recent seasons may have
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