Walking Dead - Season One Marathon

November 25, 2011

Walking Dead Season One is on Netflix Streaming.

Official Walking Dead site

Entertainment Weekly "Walking Dead" Central

Episode 1 Stats:

BRAIN-SPLATTERING, BLOOD-SPURTING ZOMBIE HEADSHOTS: 12
TOTAL ZOMBIE KILLS: 13
ZOMBIE-RELATED HUMAN KILLS (DEPICTED): 0

Jeff "Doc" Jensen is all over this coverage of the series.  You might remember him from his obsessive recaps/philosophy lectures about "LOST"

Alan Sepinwall Review of the pilot

When you ask the creative team behind AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” which debuts Sunday night at 10,  what differentiates their series from every other filmed zombie story, they’ll point to the fact that it isa series - that, like the Robert Kirkman comic books that inspired it, it is an ongoing, never-ending nightmare, as opposed to two hours of scares and out...

But it’s also possible that there’s a reason there’s never been a zombie TV series before that goes beyond the technical difficulties of pulling it off. Maybe the zombie apocalypse is a horror that’s better off in brief glimpses than as a story with no end in sight.

Linkage:

Desert Bus for Hope

Desert Bus is actually a mini-game from the never-released Sega CD game Penn & Teller’s Smoke and Mirrors. In it a player controls a virtual bus that drives an eight-hour-long strip of highway between Tucson, Arizona, and Las Vegas, Nevada, on an endless loop. The difficulty is that the bus lists slightly to the right and must be constantly corrected or it will crash. It’s the worst video game ever made, and we play it for as long as donations come in. In order to maximize the pain and suffering for the Desert Bus team, we have five drivers who must play Desert Bus for 24 hours at a time. In order to keep things interesting for our viewers we have live and silent auctions, celebrity guests and a lot of silliness.

The Rules of Desert Bus

Penn Jilette Explains Why Desert Bus Was Created
In this video, promoting a charity event that utilized the videogame to raise money, Penn says that Desert Bus was created to hit back at Janet Reno, who not only demonized fantasy violence in games, but also said that games should teach people real-life skills. Thus, the epic drive from Tuscon to Las Vegas was born and in Penn’s words a “game that was very real-life” was created.