Zombies... a good place to start!

OK Can I just say that I'm new to this and haven't the foggiest of where to start? Seriously, I've been thinking about starting a blog for a while and have FINALLY gotten the guts up to start. My mission statement- I have none. Anyone that knows me knows that I'm random and I like to vent, so I figure that's probably the best direction (or lack of one) for me to start with.

My husband and I watched the first episode of that new AMC show The Walking Dead last night. I have to say, it's not bad at all. It was a whopping hour and half long, that was my only complaint. Hopefully that was just an "intro episode special length" and it won't be that long every time. Half hour sitcoms have a hard enough time holding my attention... OO squirrel! I have to be honest, if it weren't for my husband's obsession with zombies, I probably wouldn't have watched the show on my own. He has this innate need to be prepared for an impending zombie attack that is no doubt in our future. He watches zombie movies very intently, critiquing their "not-so-thought-through" plans and making mental notes of the good ones. Sigh. This is what the next 60 years of my life look like. At least he's cute. Anywho, onto the show. It's about a sheriff who gets shot during a high speed chase and goes into a coma. He wakes up in zombieland and sets out on his mission to find his wife and son and I'm having a feeling the premise for the show will be his "quest" to find them. The main character is played by Andrew Lincoln, which means nothing. He was the "To me, you are perfect" guy in Love Actually. (Yeah, the cute one we all thought Kiera Knightley should have left her husband for.) The show actually goes in a different direction on zombies, which was refreshing. I know it's being filmed after a comic book series or something, and before anyone criticizes me for my ignorance, I haven't read them. The guy commandeers a horse after he runs out of gas and that's about the point where the show got really interesting for me. For about 5 minutes until the horse got eaten by zombies. Yeah, I'm pretty much scarred for life now. Overall, I enjoyed it. It's pretty gruesome, not good for entertainment while eating. Trust me. I have done this. My favorite part is that it's on AMC and there are almost no commercials and the few breaks they do take are like 2 minutes. Long enough to take a trip to the crapper and grab a soda.

Final score- 4 stars. **SPOILER!** It lost a star because his wife is canoodling with his old partner from before the coma. Messed up.