The Walking Dead: Season 1 (3-Disc Special Edition)

The First Season is all around amazing. We find ourselves thrown into the world of some very strong characters and great writing. In this short and absolutely awesome season you will probably find yourself attached to over half a dozen characters. The interactions between our players comes off as real and it doesn't take much to become invested in them.'The effects are great. A lot of attention and detail went into the zombies (walkers), and things didn't come across as over-done. It looks like real make-up and prosthetics were used and there isn't a lot of crappy CGI to pull you out of the zone. The music, when used, is good, but there are a lot of silent parts too in which you get a sense of what the atmosphere would really be like. Sometimes less is more and this show made good use of that. They didn't take the shaky-camera cop-out, they also didn't exaggerate things to the point it looked unbelievable. They kept it honest - as if they sat around and thought - "what would this actually look like" and then showed it to us as realistically as they could! I was able to suspend my disbelief and get lost in the story!Another thing I appreciate is that in this season they did not go out of their way to try to make ruthlessly pick on religion. A certain survivor and his son say a prayer over their meal after rescuing a stranger - its fast, short, and too the point. That was appreciated - that a family that just so happened to believe in God was able to keep to their faith and it was no big deal. It wasn't done from a standpoint to try to prosyletize, it was simple just in the show because that was that family's beliefs. Too many new shows I watch go out of their way to make cartoonishly awful religious characters when its CLEAR it had nothing to do with the story line and was just some crack-pot writer standing on a soap box who wanted to throw his or her opinion in your face - so really - it was really refreshing to watch something that was simply about what it claims to be about - the Walking Dead, and how a group of very like-able characters come together to manage in the face of that.

I really don't understand the popularity of this series. IMO, it's incredibly slow in the action-department and spends WAY too much time on the touchy-feely BS with the characters.Who cares about character-development when the Zombies are probably gonna eat 'em all in the end, anyway?I watched the first season to the end since I'd already paid for it, but for no other reason. No interest in what came afterward.Not recommended.

My favorite TV series of all time! I am 44 years old and this is easily, by far, the best TV show I have ever seen! Vanity Fair says "The Walking Dead is the best new television show of the year". AGREED. DreadCentral says this is "The greatest zombie epic of the last three decades". After waking up out of a coma, a police man finds that he is in a nightmare world. Atlanta, Georgia is deserted and he finds that zombies have taken it over! He soon finds some human survivors in a camp outside of town that are barely surviving the zombie apocalypse. This is a story of human survival against cataclysmic odds. This TV show airs Sunday nights on AMC network and is directed and made by the same people who made The Shawshank Redemption, The Terminator, and Aliens. It is based on the comic book/magazine of the same name. VERY, VERY GRAPHIC. THIS IS NOT FOR CHILDREN. I would rate this TV show R or MA for violence, gore, blood, occasional cussing, occasional nudity, and intense action.

The zombie as reimagined by George Romero in 1967 was a remarkably potent monster that seemed to reach the deepest levels of primal fear. Yet it was a remarkably limited monster. It wasn't intelligent and even romantic like a vampire or even a werewolf when not transformed; not coldly intelligent like an evil space alien, or able to crush cities like Godzilla. Within the short time span of a movie, everything that could be done with them was essentially done in the original Night of the Living Dead. You might change the location to a shopping mall or whatever, but the setup was always the same: a group of people were trapped somewhere and the zombies were trying, always relentlessly, to get at them. It didn't help that the numerous films that followed usually had miniscule budgets, poor writing and minimally talented actors.Then The Walking Dead showed the way. With a TV series there was time to do more than be trapped in some building. You could develop characters, move around, show interaction between groups of survivors, open the whole thing up, and this is what the Walking Dead staff and actors have done with great success. It's still a bit limited. You can go into the primary group's relationships and dynamics and this can develop characters, but too much of this and it can turn into a soap opera of who's in love with who or whatever and lose its way. Or, you can introduce the possibilities of conflict with other groups or villainous leaders of groups which creates opportunities for action beyond zombie killing. A few people have complained that it is getting somewhat repetitious by the end of season five, but it is still a somewhat limited template. I don't think those fans would want a full season of peace and happiness which is about the only alternative.The Walking Dead has tried both directions with maybe a bit too much soap opera in the first half of season two and maybe too long of a single villain arc in season three, but each time has pulled back and brought the show back on track. Mostly it explores human nature when the protected life we knew that allowed us to be ultra-nice people disappears and the world becomes a hostile and dangerous place where niceness doesn't suffice any more and we have to bring out the tougher, harsher side of ourselves.,The show does this wonderfully well and this is where you start. Be forewarned that the show can be pretty ruthless about killing off major characters. But if the primary characters were always safe like in older TV fare, it wouldn't be very unsettling and would become a bore. Like any of the better series coming out of cable these days it can be addicting. ENJOY!

A rich fantastic character driven drama, with Zombies thrown in. A Lawman wakes from a coma, to a world different from the oneHe left while awakeThe Director did a brilliant job, the make-up and special effects were excellent, you can Side with so many of the charactersThis series cannot be faulted. This review is for the season 1 Blu Ray region B

Exciting, scary, human. The Walking Dead Season 1 was a great introduction to the canon world. There were plenty of times I was actually a little scared - and others where I laughed out loud.The makeup and cinematography is beautiful, too. I would highly recommend this show if you’re into zombies, horror, and how we, as humans, react to a dramatic change in our society.

Undoubtedly the best series of the walking dead, and some would even say the only good season, leaving to question wether this should have just been a miniseries or not, it follows the lives of a group of survivors during the opening stages of the apocalypse, this is based heavily around the comics and follows the narrative of them very closely.I'd reccomend just getting the comics though if you wanna go further than this series, I can confidently say that season 2 is pretty good too, season 3 was ok, and past that you are getting into dead zones (haha get it)this review is about series 1 though, and I would most definitely like to talk about it a bit, I wouldn't call it god tier cause it is still flawed in some places, the CGI can be a bit bad in some places, some of the sets feel a little forced, there are a few logic questions and you can see some of the characters still struggling to get into their roles a little bit towards the begining.the main thing I would say is actually good here though is the use of the opening to set the theme, it's quite a good one, and sets the tone for the rest of the series to come, a good opener showing a later on scene that never appears again and doesn't relate to anything hard really story wise can work but it's a risk as if it doesn't sell it can very quickly turn people off the production.overall I give this an 8.5 out of 10, I know some people even say this series is bad but this is my opinion.

Great series its the first time ive seen it ,much better than 28 days later and its follow on ,ive just ordered 2,3 and 4 ,I think it goes up to season 9.Excellent service and quality from musicMagpie .THANK YOU 😀

Those that are familiar with the series will know that this is where it all began. It really does visually look lovely on Blu Ray and is not available on Netflix UK (as of the date of this review). Therefore, this is a very worthy purchase. I paid £3.48 for this Season 1 Blu Ray (pre-owned) and it is definitely worth it.