10 Horror TV Shows That Broke All The Rules
1. The Walking Dead - It Changed TV’s Entire Apocalypse Horror Sub-Genre
It’s hard to imagine now a world in which a zombie serial on television was completely ground-breaking. You may be thinking, “The Walking Dead is as generic as you can get!”, but the thing is that when it first came out it absolutely was the first of its kind. It’s generic now because, firstly it has been running for about ninety years, and secondly a million other shows have copied it. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!
It was sort of unheard-of at the time for a show to be set after an apocalypse was already in action. It’s one thing to have an action-packed series watching the end of the world happen, but another entirely to have Andrew Lincoln wake up in hospital to find the world has fallen around him as he lay in a coma.
Once again the show dashed all our expectations when the hope of a cure was eliminated in the first season, meaning that the classic zombie apocalypse plotline of ‘getting the immune girl to the scientists’ was out of the question.
With its interesting characters, great writing and completely new setting and premise, it’s no wonder that The Walking Dead rose to fame with its first few seasons. And even if it’s gone down-hill in the years since, at least it inspired a whole lot more zombie TV in its wake!