Thanks, 'The walking dead'
Finish
The Walking Dead
.
The second part of its eleventh season has already started.
It is the latest installment in a series so successful that its achievements have been paradoxically ignored.
And it has them, go if it has them.
The walking dead
is, to begin with, the product that took Spanish pay television to heights never seen before.
In 2010, FOX's wise decision to broadcast it in our country at the same time as in the US gave
spectacular results
, also showing the way for the rest of the sector.
On Monday nights,
The Walking Dead
was seen , period.
Because, in addition, the zombie series (sorry: walkers) was then one of the best broadcast.
Frank Darabont, responsible for the television adaptation of Robert Kirkman's popular comics, did a magnificent job, finding the perfect tone, cast and aesthetic from the start.
Darabont put the machine into operation with such indisputable authority and authorship that, when 10 years later he argued with the AMC network, producer of the series, the distribution of profits, they had to compensate him for his services with
200 million dollars
.
In a world without
Game of Thrones
or
The Crown
, the showmanship of Kirkman and Darabont's series moved the television industry forward.
His refusal to infantilize his plots, to make them for all audiences, was also a milestone.
The post-apocalyptic world of
The Walking Dead
was never complacent or hopeful.
The series, like the comics, took advantage of its premise to confront the human being with
his most primitive instincts
, his deepest longings and his oldest fears.
His many risky and powerful narrative decisions today seem to have come to nothing, buried under the weight of almost 200 episodes.
But on the other hand that longevity has allowed us to witness some of the most interesting character arcs in recent television.
Carol's
(Melissa McBride) journey to power,
Daryl's
(Norman Reedus) journey to serenity, and
Negan's
(Jeffrey Dean Morgan) journey to redemption are anything but abrupt.
And, like so many things in
The Walking Dead
, they already belong to the sediment of a series that we cannot eliminate from the canon.
Just like the sad loss of innocence of the boy Carl (Chandler Riggs) who we saw playing with guns when he should be messing around in the schoolyard.
But
what school and what innocence
, if there is no longer that.
The walking dead, consistent since its first season with the world it portrays, a world without schools, a world without innocence, has had to invent challenges and obstacles in order to continue advancing in an environment in which progress is flight and hope it only exists in the short term.
Its end comes with a new plot of, again, two sides.
Again the good and the bad.
Of course, who are the good guys in
The Walking Dead?
At this point, probably no one.
You're welcome, 'The walking dead'
The rules of the game of
The Walking Dead
are so perfect and so well oiled that the temptation to turn the series into an eternal soap opera must have been almost irresistible from very early on.
Once all the possible experiments had been done
with it, sometimes it seemed that the only thing left was to extend it to infinity.
Propose a new dilemma between nomadism and barricade, bring out a more nihilistic villain than the previous one.
Even these monsters have succumbed to the inertia of long-running television success.
It took just a few seasons of taming
to
dissolve Negan's chilling evil .
Thus, a bad guy whose mere appearance raised the profile of the series was integrated into the side of the good guys.
The choice of the charismatic Jeffrey Dean Morgan to embody the brute of the bat was the television news of his year.
A few months after that, the pornographically violent resolution of the
cliffhanger
of the previous season, the sixth, returned to place Negan and
The walking dead
in the center of the series conversation.
AMC's fiction thus demonstrated that its seventh installment still had
enough fuel
, that narrative exhaustion had no place in the lives of Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his people.
Five years later neither Rick nor his son are still in the series and
a supposedly resocialized Negan doesn't add up
.
Tiredness, in the end, has reached
The Walking Dead
and that is why
The Walking Dead
It does well to close the deal.
Even Alpha, the fearsome villain played by
Samantha Morton
from the ninth season, seems, at times, to want to look at the camera and, in tribute to Rosa Benito, drop the "I can't pull the car anymore."
To say that
The Walking Dead
is a zombie series is unfair.
They already wish fictions with those conceptual limitations had endured more than a decade alive.
But the reality is what it is: many viewers
have gone from having a relationship of absolute fidelity with this series (as I said above,
The Walking Dead
was seen on Monday nights,
period) to watching it out of inertia.
And from there to seeing her little or directly to not seeing her
.
Who was going to tell us that
re-enlisting would be so sadly easy
.
You put on the first episode of this latest batch of episodes and there's Carol, Negan, Daryl, Maggie and that priest that no one understands how he's still alive.
Family people.
Heat of home.
More of the same.
In
The walking dead
there is still plenty of room for things to happen.
In theory there is still a game.
Another issue is that we care about their things, that we really love the characters who are still in the series and
miss those who are no longer
.
When Andrew Lincoln jumped ship, the idea was for the Briton to return shortly in some
TWD
movies that were highly desirable at the time and now sound like a
random
fourth-edition
OT
contestant looking at yacht prices before even having a record deal.
They say that Rick still returns to close the series.
Well, fine, fine, I'm glad.
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