By Chris Summerfield
Days Gone Bye
So I just had to review the first ever episode of this breath taking and outstanding show that is gripping the world at the moment…
The beginning… Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) arrives at what looks like a disaster scene, cars and other vehicles all crashed and smashed in to each other, devastation and dead everywhere and the reason for Rick being there… seeking fuel. He hears footsteps to see a child wondering round, the child, zombified; he has the heartbreaking task to shoot her…
Then a flash back to, Rick with his partner, Shane Walsh (Jon Bernthal) they are sitting in their patrol car, both trying to figure out the difference with regards the behavioural habits of men and women, basically trying to understand womankind…
They are then called to an incident, armed bandits are on the way, a road block is set up, a road stinger takes the car out, what happens next, a gun battle breaks out between the bandits and the police…
Rick Grimes is hit…
Rick wakes, finally fully conscious; he’s alone, however, thought for a moment he was talking to Shane, having slipped in and out of consciousness for so long… Confused, he wonders around a deserted hospital, where there is no signs of life, communication also down, though it isn’t too long before he starts to witness the horror that had unfolded while he was unconscious…The body bags, abounded vehicles, the endless dead roaming… sure he would think he was in hell…
Rick does what anyone would in his situation, head for home… As for home, deserted, just like everywhere else, then obviously Rick meets, Dwayne (Adrian Kali Turner) and his father, Morgan (Lennie James) they first mistake him as being bit but are soon convinced otherwise. Morgan then explains to Rick what went down…
They eventually go their separate ways.
A touching part within this episode is when Morgan, stares through the site on his rifle at his zombified wife, and how it is breaking his heart to attempt to shoot her…
And as for, Rick who is out of fuel, (going back to the beginning again) decides to saddle up and heads for Atlanta on horseback, his mission, hoping the rescue centre is there and more than anything so are his family…
This is a series that as much thought injected in to it, a huge emotional journey for the characters, in which you get to meet many along the way, who face a desperate struggle to survive and to just keep their friendships bonded that are constantly being tested, as for the zombies they are first class, creepy, ugly and sure freak you out sometimes and as we are aware not just zombies are the threat…
A must see series…
Rating: 10/10
