Line #22 Series/TheWalkingDead2010


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5	[[caption-width-right:350:''[[DoubleMeaningTitle "We tell ourselves...]] [[TitleDrop that we are the walking dead."]]'']]
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7	->''"You step outside, you risk your life. Take a drink of water, you risk your life. Nowadays you breathe, you risk your life. Every moment now, you don't have a choice. The only thing you can choose is what you're risking it for!"''
8	-->-- '''Hershel Greene'''
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10	''The Walking Dead'' is a {{live action\|Adaptation}} ZombieApocalypse television series based on [[ComicBook/TheWalkingDead the comic of the same name]] by Creator/RobertKirkman. It is the first installment in Franchise/TheWalkingDeadTelevisionUniverse. Like the comic, its story focuses on a group of survivors struggling to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.
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12	Rick Grimes (Creator/AndrewLincoln), the leader of the group, awakens in the hospital from a coma to find everything has gone downhill. He sets out to find his family, and the rest of the show focuses on him and the rest of the characters as they adapt and relate to each other in a grim new world. Though the survivors face great hardship -- not just from the undead (referred to as "walkers"), but also [[BewareTheLiving from people who are far worse]] -- they find that their most vital resources are [[TrueCompanions each other]], and the will to survive day by day. The group takes casualties, finds new members, and suffers brutal defeats, but they push on, with the hope that things get better, no matter how briefly, beyond the horizon.
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14	The series premiered on October 31, 2010 on Creator/{{AMC}} as a SundayEveningDramaSeries, and was produced by Creator/FrankDarabont and Gale Anne Hurd. Darabont served as showrunner for the first season, and Glen Mazzara took over for seasons 2 and 3, followed by Scott M. Gimple, who oversaw seasons 4-8, with Angela Kang taking the reins starting with season 9. Comic creator Robert Kirkman was also heavily involved with the production, including being the writer for several episodes. ''The Walking Dead'' concluded with its eleventh and final season, nearly twice the length of a usual season; the GrandFinale aired on November 20, 2022.
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16	The series has [[http://www.amctv.com/shows/the-walking-dead its own homepage]]. It includes three series of {{webisode}}s, the six-part ''Torn Apart'', the four-part ''Cold Storage'', and the three-part ''The Oath'' along with other extra content, including online content for the ''Talking Dead'' talk show accompanying the series. A fourth series of {{webisode}}s titled ''Red Machete'' ran alongside Season 8 from fall 2017 to spring 2018. A [[http://www.amctv.com/shows/the-walking-dead/dead-reckoning flash-based]] adventure game entitled ''Dead Reckoning'' is also available on the website, and shows the initial walker encounters of the character Shane Walsh (Creator/JonBernthal) when the outbreak began.
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18	The show's writers knowingly took [[ApprovalOfGod (creator-approved)]] liberties with its source material, so comic readers, don't expect to come into this knowing everything beforehand. WordOfGod says that the intention from the start has been to approach the series as an AlternateContinuity of its own, in which certain events play out differently -- [[NotHisSled sometimes radically so]] -- due to the ButterflyEffect ripples of the [[AdaptationExpansion additions]] and [[AdaptedOut subtractions]] of [[SchrodingersCast various characters]] and events major and minor.
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20	Several spin-offs taking place in the same canon as this series have been produced, with several more slated for future production; see [[Franchise/TheWalkingDeadTelevisionUniverse here]] for more information about these projects.
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22	A ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' special titled ''[[Recap/RobotChickenTheWalkingDeadSpecialLookWhosWalking Look Who's Walking]]'', based off the series, aired in late 2017, with many of the show's actors reprising their roles.
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24	See also ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSurvivalInstinct'', a first person shooter video game set in the TV series continuity. And ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadArcade'', a rail shooter arcade based off the TV show.
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26	!!Trope subpages:
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28	[[index]]
29	* TheWalkingDead/TropesAToC
30	* TheWalkingDead/TropesDToK
31	** [[DeathByAdaptation/TheWalkingDead2010 Death by Adaptation]]
32	** [[DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation/TheWalkingDead2010 Dies Differently in Adaptation]]
33	** [[Foreshadowing/TheWalkingDead2010 Foreshadowing]]
34	* TheWalkingDead/TropesLToR
35	* TheWalkingDead/TropesSToZ
36	** [[SparedByTheAdaptation/TheWalkingDead2010 Spared by the Adaptation]]
37	[[/index]]
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39	----
40	->''"We're the ones who live."''

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