The Zombie Myth In Amc's The Walking Dead

The myth of zombies has been debated for centuries and has brought about insane creative ideas about the unknown. Over time creative geniuses have looked to share their thoughts on the zombie myth through video games, comic books and television shows. One of the newest television shows that depicts a post-apocalyptic world filled with zombies is AMC’s The Walking Dead. The setting of The Walking Dead takes place in a world in which a massive, fatal, and gore filled disease has killed a majority of civilization on earth and has forsaken whomever that is left to fight to survive against the flesh eating, walking zombies and the other people that are also trying to live. The very first episode, “Days Gone Bye”, allows the audience to share the introduction to the post-apocalyptic world with the main character of the show, Rick Grimes, and build a strong bond between the audience and Rick Grimes because it is both of their first experiences with the new world. The episode focused on the core introduction of the world by explaining it all through the eyes of a character who understood just as much as the audience. Rick Grimes was introduced to the audience as a sheriff who was shot in an altercation; he went into a coma, after being shot, and woke up into
The Walking Dead is filled with gore, horror, death, and disgusting examples of the destruction brought onto the world by the disease. From the very first scene of Days Gone Bye the audience is shown how horrific the show will be; Rick Grimes shoots a little girl, holding a teddy bear, in the forehead because she had turned into a zombie and was trying to devour him and eat his flesh. It also shares a scene before the apocalypse showing that Rick was a good man and not a heartless killer in order for the audience to connect with him on a personal