prologue

If you weren’t sure what you were in for, you certainly knew by the time the opening title credits rolled through, after a small zombie-child had her brains blown out at point-blank range by Sheriff Rick Grimes...”

The shattered picture frames, urban decay, and total lack of zombies in the show's opening credits reflect the fact that The Walking Dead is very much a show about humans forced into inhuman situations.”

But speaking of shows that had instant-classic pilots with astounding opening sequences, I loved how The Walking Dead began. The prologue introduced us to a world ravaged by Sudden Onset Zombie Pandemic – an infection that’s part super-flu, part demonic take-over that saps your life and reformats your complex, robust operating system of self into something sad, rabid, and wrong. ”