Netflix Zombie Series Outshines The Walking Dead
Netflix has a 16-part zombie spinoff that's apparently teaching The Walking Dead franchise a lesson in how spinoffs should actually work. While The Walking Dead didn't start the zombie craze—that honor belongs to Night of the Living Dead back in 1968—it definitely became one of the genre's pillars. But the franchise's spinoff attempts have been spotty at best, and this Netflix series apparently nailed what the others couldn't. It's worth noting that zombie fatigue is real, yet this series seems to have found something The Walking Dead lost.
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Netflix's success here suggests that zombie stories need fresh narrative approaches and tighter storytelling structures, not just the established IP recognition that The Walking Dead was coasting on.
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"About time someone made a zombie show that didn't overstay its welcome like TWD."
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