Walking Dead...and well horror series ramble

Watching The Walking Dead ...makes me miss Stephen King's mini-series The Stand for some reason. Possibly because it was better written. It is oddly amusing in somewhat the same ways as Ringer...the dialogue is so cheesy and you can feel the writers working really hard to get the characters from point A - B. Also very pulpy - but hey, based on a series of comic books. It is supposed to be pulpy and cheesy, what are you expecting Mattheison? Or Shakespeare? Please. It's fun in places. Drags in others. I don't take it too seriously, and enjoy it for what it is like everything else I watch. It's a bit like reading - some days you are in the mood for Dosetovosky's Crime and Punishment (yet to happen for me - but I have the book just in case), and some days you are in the mood for well George RR Martin (which I'm plodding through), and other's...Jim Butcher or Harry Potter or Bridget Jone's Diary.
Or that some guilty pleasure romance novel. Or fanfic erotica. Tv? The same thing.

But in comparison to other pulp novels and series? It could be a lot better. Lacks a bit of punch. American Horror Story has more punch to it. As does Supernatural. Examples of shows that enjoy their pulp status and don't drag quite so much. Vamp Diaries is another example. Best horror series on at the moment is Vamp Diaries.

I laughed out loud at this line:
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