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In the first episode it showed infected eating other people. Now, please correct me if I am wrong, but isn't that pretty much what Zombies do? I'm not slamming the show, and trust me, I WILL watch it because I am sci fi junkie ESPECIALLY anything about viruses (something I have been obsessed with since 7th grade and the Andromeda Strain movie first aired on TV and I was HOOKED), so...that being said...I did catch on to the freaky cauliflower head people the "upcoming" scenes showed and it reminded me of a novel series that I read last year during the lockdowns...it's called The Ruins by T.W. Piperbrook, where people are infected with a virus that mutates them into mindless monsters...anyway, the way they are described in the book looks like the mutated victims in the upcoming scenes. I also picked up on the similar story concept to Children of Men, but aren't all stories a bit of retelling of other stories? We already know she IS infected, but it doesn't kill her or mutate her, she fights it off.
Wow, you know your Zombie lore! I've seen all of those films, except Snyder's remake. I just hope HBO doesn't abandon the story like they did with Raised by Wolves which was really really good. I am so fed up with good shows getting abandoned right when they start getting really really deep into the story.
perc2100 puts up a passionate defense and I hope he's right. But after seeing how HALO was butchered by Paramount+ I have my doubts. Also having the original creator on board is no guarantee of fidelity to the source material. Kirkman was a producer on "Walking Dead", and it diverted from the original in the first season.
I recall reading that Kirkman diverted the tv series from the comics deliberately and I have the ENTIRE comic series in the hardcover books. It was a Christmas tradition that I would buy the annual Hardcover book for me and my kids to read, but admit that I need to go back read the last two because he ends the story differently than it was ended in the series. In a way, for me, it's like having one of those "alternate endings" options some directors like to add to their director's cuts.
Tess' exit/sacrifice
No one has even mentioned that Olivia Dunham is in this yet...or did I miss that? Anna Torv is Tess and last night's episode was heartbreaking.
Last night’s second episode however has broken a new record for the channel. According to ratings giant Nielsen combined with first-party data from Warner Bros. Discovery, the show’s second episode pulled in 5.7 million viewers across linear airings on HBO and streams on HBO Max.That’s a 22% increase on last week’s record-breaking 4.7 million in overnights – a number that jumped to 10 million after two days of availability.That 22% jump from the initial premiere viewership to second episode debut audience is also, according to HBO, the “largest week 2 audience growth for an HBO Original drama series in the history of the network.”