The 90-minute Halloween-night premiere of AMC’s The Walking Dead delivered 5.3 million viewers, the highest numbers for any series in AMC’s history — and enough to beat most non-sports programs on Sunday night.
For those not familiar with the genre, it’s not really about zombies:
A survivalist story at its core, the series explores how the living are changed by the overwhelming realization that those who survive can be far more dangerous than the mindless walkers roaming the earth. They themselves have become the walking dead.
After discussing the indestructibility of Toyota trucks, I was amused to see Toyota advertising its Corolla as equipped for a zombie attack… or just life with its hard-core dependability.