[Chilinot]

As a newcomer to the story (and i believe most redditors are as well) i absolutely love that they keep the zombies on the down low and more something that is something in the background.

I'm tired of zombie slasher movies/shows. I want a good drama show with great story telling set in a post apocalyptic world, and i dont want it to be like "the walking dead".

[Keyframe]

The walking dead is everything but about zombies. I'd actually prefer it to be about zombies and the outbreak etc, not who's pregnant and who's with whom etc.

[sph]

Agreed. Zombies are the best monsters, Walking Dead killed the hype because it started dragging its feet (heh) but there is never enough zombie media.

And I like that this time it's fungi. Pretty neat and scarier.

[JamesSwift]

That sounds like the early seasons of The Walking Dead. It was more a thought-exercise about what your moral lines would be if put in that situation, and exploring inter-personal conflict. Then it became... who f'ing knows what to call that.

[raldi]

I played the games, and I also think it makes for much better television the way they're doing it. It makes the infected much scarier if pretty much any time they're encountered, somebody dies. If the characters could just mow them down like in the game and then slap on a health kit and be fit as a fiddle, then the infected would basically be gnats.

[throwaway6734]

Station Eleven might be up your alley

[anotherhue]

And The Leftovers before it

[hiidrew]

both of these are fantastic

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

Yeah, Zombies are played out as fuck. They were played out when The Last of Us was released as a game, which is one of many reasons I didn't play it.

I did watch a let's play though and it was clear that it was the character drama that was the best part of the game, so it makes sense that's what they'd focus on for the show too.