Genre Analysis: The 100 And The Walking Dead

I chose to write about “The Walking Dead Opens Its Season in Lively Fashion”, by Mark Dawidziak because, I personally love this show which is the purpose of my choice! “The Walking Dead” is a TV series that is currently beginning its 8th Season this October. This show is based on an apocalypse that takes place following some government experimenting. Their experiments go terribly wrong and zombies are the end result. The author of “The Walking Dead Opens Its Season in Lively Fashion” really pulls in the heart of the story by being so passionate with his own descriptions of the series.

The Walking Dead is a televised American drama series about a group of people trying to survive a zombie apocalypse developed by Frank Darabont. The series stars Andrew Lincoln as sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes, who awakens from a coma after the world yields to a zombie plague (Griffiths, 2011). Dazed and confused from months in the hospital he wanders out to figure out why he cannot find anyone alive. He makes his way home only to find his wife and son missing. He sets out to locate his family and finds many other survivors on his journey (Tucker, 2010). The Walking Dead coordinates with many social themes such as

This scene plays a vital role in pointing out major characteristics of Rick which are: mysterious, complicated, discriminating, and headstrong by just looking at his costume, his acting, and props. When Rick is first introduced into the film,

Throughout the episode, there was a very clear sense of what everyone was fighting for. They were fighting for their friends, family, and their future. Rick is fighting for the future as well as his personal vengeance against Negan.

What Rick, the main character of ‘The Walking Dead,’ implies in this quote is that one must advance through their life in order to aim at their objectives. In this case, Rick and his group must withstand the impediments that they face in the zombie apocalypse to live. In the scene that this quote is given in, Rick spoke to his group about his grandfather, a veteran from World War II. Rather than bail out, Rick’s grandfather continued to fight in the war and fabricated his death to live. As shown, one must do what is necessary in order to attain an ambition. For Rick and his group, they must recall that they, in fact, are the walking dead; they are what will dominate southeastern America. Similarly, humans can reassure themselves that

Children between the ages 7 to 12 are exposed to many television shows. These television shows, play an important role in children this age by opening their eyes to new ideas, cultures and to new places. As a 5th grade teacher, I was surprised to hear how many of my students were excited about the return of The Walking Dead on February 14, 2016. Before today, I had never seen this show, but I knew it was not appropriate for 10 and 11-year-olds to watch.

The TV series "The Walking Dead" first showed on October 31 , 2010, the main character is Rick Grimes who is was a sheriff in his home town. Rick Grimes was shot before the out break and his good friend Shane locked him in his hospital room and hoped for the best. Through out the TV series Rick is faced with many struggles, he ends up shooting his best friend Shane and his wife ends up dying while giving birth to his daughter. Rick also has a son named Carl who starts out as a young boy who can't fight for himself, he eventually turns out to be a strong member of there group. Now the villain is many people in this show, the first human threat turns out to be the Governor who ends up going crazy about killing Rick. This act cause many of Ricks group to die as well as killing the governor. The real threat happens when the group finally encounters a group that calls themselves the Saviors, Rick makes an agreement to another group called the

At the beginning of the series, Rick wakes from a coma ad finds himself in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. Similar to the man, Rick values his family more than anything. After he wakes from the coma, the first thing Rick does is travel to Atlanta, GA in search of his wife, Lori, and son, Carl. Rick is a former sheriff deputy and is a key leader of the survivors group. Although we expect the man to have some military background, we aren’t entirely sure but we know he has strong survival skills like Rick. Rick and the man also share being incredibly protective over their sons in the apocalypse. Similar to the man in The Road, Rick tries to retain his son’s innocence but his extremely hesitance to welcoming non-group members to the group tests his brutality. At one point, Rick kills anyone who approaches the group. The man is not this extreme but similarly, the man doesn’t allow anyone to travel his him and his son for more than one night (Elly). Rick and the man also share a tendency to place blame on themselves. When the boy forgets to close the gas tank valve and all the gas leaks out, the man takes blame for forgetting to check that the valve was closed. Rick blames himself for the death of his best friend Shane and wife Lori because he is the leader of the group, however it wasn’t really his fault. The man and Rick Grimes share many similarities given their apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic

Mikah Walker spent quality time at home with her family for the first time since Christmas break. All the members of the Walker family work everyday and get home very late, because of this the family barely spends time together. Walker works a part-time job and spends the majority of the day studying and doing scholarships. This spring break the whole family took off and spent the whole week doing fun and exciting things. Walker went to the movies, tried new restaurants, and prepared for Easter. When the family wasn’t out exploring they sat on the couch munching on potato chips and binge watching the latest episodes of The Walking Dead and Thirteen Reasons Why.

Both Rick Grimes and his actions are moral and unselfish. Rather than being self-centered, Rick puts his life on the line to protect the group and his family with the best of his ability. The well-intentioned actions and selfless motives of Rick is evident in these three examples. In the early events of

People dress up as zombies and suddenly, this fan base all over the country comes together to talk about the one thing they love. “The Walking Dead” opened a world that had never been seen before. Take, for example, a horror show from the 90’s, a show mainly for kids, “Goosebumps” brought a revolutionary take over to many individuals across the nation. By using effects and story telling it revolutionized TV and that is exactly what can be seen in “The Walking Dead”. The difference with “The Walking Dead” is that it is one of the bloodiest shows on TV today plus, what is most unique about it all is that it is a very bleak and depressing show.

Fear the Walking Dead is the highly anticipated prequel to AMC’s The Walking Dead. The pilot episode depicts the struggle that Travis Manawa encounters as the zombie apocalypse slowly occurs in Los Angeles. Travis Manawa is a recently divorced high school English teacher who is in a relationship with the school’s counselor, Madison Clark. Madison Clark is the mother of two children: a model student who was recently accepted into Berkley, Alicia, and a drug addicted community college dropout, Nick. Travis Manawa has a son, Chris Ortiz, with his ex-wife, Liza Ortiz.

Rick is a democratic leader that helps the group remain calm, is inclusive, but also makes decisions. During the entire episode, Rick is able to remain calm and help others be calm as well. He encourages positivity within the group and attempts to manage relationships.

With the Season 6 finale of “The Walking Dead” not revealing the identity of Negan’s victim (presumed to be Daryl) and leaving us on tenterhooks, Melissa McBride aka Carol has made some interesting revelations in an interview recently.

As a culture we are obsessed with the concept of the end of the modern world as we know it. We contemplate what would happen if everything we love and care about were to suddenly disappear and never come back. The everyday commodities we enjoy gone in the matter of days, and left in its place is a sinister survivalistic world where no one is safe and the only thing that matters is surviving day by day. Doesn’t matter what caused the world to come to an end, only matters what we do after in order to survive. This genre of movies and films is known as post-apocalyptic. Although the film may delve into the causes of the apocalypse through flashbacks or memories, the film will generally revolve around the characters struggle to survive the aftermath. The genre is riddled with hundreds of films with unique twists and turns, but the majority share similar patterns that help us identify the fears of our culture. The major fears of our culture which post-apocalyptic movies portray is the fear of loneliness, major change in routine, losing our humanity, and losing the feeling of security present in our modern day society.