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03-17-2013 05:02 AM |
In the Flesh: a new twist on the zombie drama
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-rad...t-zombie-drama
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The undead are everywhere on TV, most successfully in The Walking Dead. But BBC3's new drama seems to prove the genre is still capable of reinventing itself
There is just no killing the zombie. They groan from books, lurch from cinemas and feast upon the flesh of television once again. Where vampires once ruled, the zombie hoard now shuffles ever onwards. The Walking Dead, now nearing the end of its third series on Fox in the UK, is currently leading the pack, but BBC3, having just bid farwell to one supernatural drama, follows up its much-mourned The Fades on Sunday with new zombie show In the Flesh.
The appeal of zombies to drama-makers rests in their capacity to reflect human nature in extreme situations ? and it doesn't get much more desperate than fighting for survival against the undead. As explored in stories such as 28 Days Later and Max Brooks' book World War Z, the real horror isn't the monsters but those fighting against them, and their descent into becoming monsters themselves. The best use of zombies, as is true of most supernatural elements, is when they're a part of the tale rather than the whole story.
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