Tony J Case
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Okay, many moons ago I had this to say about Z-Nation (from the Halloween Challenge thread):
and then. . . .At least someone out there is enjoying it. I'm finding the show eye-rollingly bad - and this is coming from someone who enjoys the hell out of bad movies. It's just boring as dishwater.
I would go on throughout the month tolerating the show, watching it because it was Halloween. And then, something happened - the show found it's legs about half-way through. The characters started getting fleshed out, the story started being engaging and I found myself actually enjoying the series, so much so - well, let me cross-post this:Why do I keep watching this? It's such a terrible, badly written show with thinly written characters I cant be bother give two shits about. Is it a comedy? is it horror? Is it drama? I don't know - and it fails on all fronts. It's not funny, has zero suspense and as mentioned above, dumb ass characters doing dumb ass things. It's like it's doing it's level best to make the terrible episodes of Walking Dead look like works of art.
So yes, I came to realized that instead of being a cheap walking dead knockoff, it's actually - well, lets face it - it still probably got grenlit because of the Walking Dead, but I learned to stop making comparisons. One is drama and one is goofy zombie killing fun. If you passed the show up because the weak start to the season (and yes, I stand by those early day comments - the show was terrible back then), go try later on in the season. You might find yourself shocked like me!Well, color me shocked. I actually came around on this series. The season ending was actually really, really good! I found myself going from tolerating these characters to actually going "Oh shit! How do they get out of this?!?!?" - and man, how in the world do they pick up for season two from here? They've painted themselves into a serious corner with . . . . well, go watch for yourself.