The Walking Dead - Season 3 Review
Hello folks, its time for a another review again. This time it will be AMC's hit series The Walking Dead Season 3. I actually started this series while back in season one i finished that and then i kinda dropped it. Now i picked the series up from S2E02 and watched every episode. Although i won't cover what happened on season two, i will mention it few times perhaps during this review.
So those who don't know, The Walking Dead is a Zombie/Apocalypse Drama series by AMC. It revolves around group of survivors lead by former Cop who try to find a place, which is safe from Zombies (Walkers what they refer them as in the series). I'm well aware of that Horror and Zombie related stuff is very popular in US, so that kinda explains why the series is very popular there.
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So let's dig into the Season Three of The Walking Dead. So back in season two, the farm was overrun by walkers and they had to abandon it and find a new place to live. There is cap of time between the end of Season Two and Start of Season Three, i believe they spent the winter on the road going from house to house finding supplies, also during this time Lorrie's baby was almost ready to come to this world (It would mean 6 months in road). So they finally a find a place to be at and that is a Prison. It is overrun by walkers, but Rick and his gang will clear them out and set up a pretty new home on one of the cell blocks. From the prison they find place to stay and supplies, later on they stumble on group of former prisoners who have been trapped inside for long time. Tension builds up between the former prisoner group and ricks group, but they manage to handle things with killing half of the prisoners (The new characters come and go in this series, you never know whose gonna die next). At some point alarm gets switched on the prison and more walkers try to attack it and in the process T-Dog and Lorrie die. Lorrie is able to give birth to her baby girl before she dies. Rick goes insane and starts to see hallucinations during rest of the season.
Other important aspect of the season is the Woodberry a safehaven made by Phillip a.k.a the Governor, who is your typical violent guy who appears totally different on outside. He is maniac and i have to say looking his smiling face whole season makes me want to punch him on the face hehe. As some of you already remember Andrea got separated from the group in season 2 and she was actually found by this Kill Bill like Uma thurman (Michonne), but black version. They created a friendship and stayed together whole winter, eventually they were found by Governor and were taken in Woodberry. Michonne was able to uncover the ugly side of the governor and tried to tell Andrea that, but she didn't really want to believe that. Also other returning character is Merle who is brother of Daryl. He was taken by governor and he captain at Woodberry or officer whatever you want to put it. He starts to get in trouble quite a lot, lying to governor and daryl and everyone practically. Also he beats Glenn pretty badly.
Governor and Rick go head to head couple of times and there is a ending war at the end lot of people end up dead, i won't spoil all that who and when. This is merely a synopsis what happened, i might have left out of few bits out, but i told the important stuff. They left few cliffhangers quite a lot especially the one with who had been feeding the walkers in the prison. Also i leave a trailer below so you can see whats in store for season 4.
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The Ratings
My rating system has maximum of 20 points, will be rated based on 4 criteria, Music, Actors, Story and Drama (this will change based on genre of the series). I am not paid to rate some shows higher than others, these are my honest opinions, some of you will disagree and thats fine, but i have lots of experience when it comes to the series, since i watched this stuff for my whole life.
Music
This series has its own musical scoring, which is always a good thing. The intro song is pretty decent i have to say. Then again we got this American Country music playing now and then, by all no means i am not Country hater, but this is just so popular thing in some series. The OST and soundtrack are average so ill give it average score as well. (2.5/5.0)
Actors
I think the key of the series is not the Walkers its actually the drama between the characters (some of you don't notice it). Andrew Lincoln (Rick) does good job as a main character with all that leadership stuff and whole dilemma after Lorrie dies. Hershel's actor is also really great and convincing. I Gotta say Norman Reedus (Daryl) plays really well this redneck kinda thing, if some of you have seen Boondock saints that is totally different role he got there. I think its pretty talented cast, well thats what you gotta have in Drama series although. I gotta say that i always give good ratings to actors part, since i just drop the shows with bad actors usually. Anyhow i think this show has few outstanding performances so for that reason i will give it good rating. (3.5/5.0)
Story
The Story of the Walking Dead, is more about character conflicts than actual huge plot twists (my 2 cents). I wasn't really shocked during the season, Lorries death was kinda unexpected though. Some of the stuff didn't make much sense during the season, but i won't go in detail with that. I Kinda felt like season one had better story, although ending was bit retarded with that explosion stuff. As for season two, nothing really happened expect Shane's betrayal and some stuff at the farm, but i guess we went bit down storywise, maybe because directors got changed, i don't know, but i hope/think season 4 will do better. (2.0/5.0)
Drama & Horror
It's drama series by Heart, but horror is just nice add-on to it. The whole series never used those cliche parts where, something suddenly comes out of the dark and scares everyone. Then again, i think thats something you should have couple of times i guess. Part of me wanted to be bit scared. Although i have to give big props for the clothing and make up the zombies have they look really cool and convincing. As for drama i think it was up to the level it should have been, of course there is always room up for improvement. The character conflicts were interesting, like who Merle tried to get in the back to the group and all that stuff with Michonne. (3.0/5.0)
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