Nobody walks in L.A.

The whole news not reporting on folks chomping on other folks is weak. Plus there'd be a ton of YouTube videos with FB all abuzz.

I thought someone mentioned seeing videos online

Happens too often. Real people TALK, they say what is going on, tell people what happened etc... in so many tv shows and movies people just don't say anything. It's weird.

Looks like 8.1 million tuned in for Episode 2. The 10+ million from the premiere was a record, but 8.1 is nothing to sneeze at. Especially since people predicted a huge fall-off for week 2.

I thought it was a fine episode. It's interesting to watch things fall. Most zombie movies tend to show a bit of it at the beginning and then it zeroes in on the main characters who usually get out of the city right away. Things like watching your neighbors get eaten while you're holed up in your house isn't something we see that much.

The pilot didn't, but in this last episode the next door neighbor (loading up supplies in his car) was coughing a lot, so it looked like he was sick. Then he turned and started munching on the mom with the bounce house out in front of her house.

So far I'm liking the spin off. Watching civilization fall is captivating but so scary at the same time. I think the build up to the fall has been cool. The cops stashing water in their cruiser was pretty creepy. There's a little less civilization in each episode.

Terminal blackness.

Re: Tobias (aka, Glen-wannabe) -- while we have meta-knowledge, we don't know if the characters do. Does George Romero and his creations exist in that universe? We don't know if the characters know what zombies are (in fact, it is pretty safe to say no such thing exists in the TWD universe). Tobias was keyed in on knowing something was happening and that he needed to protect himself. He has insight that any "prepper" would as far as survival skills. We haven't seen anything to indicate he knows about the walking dead.

Re: tell the daughter (or the ex-wife) -- yes, you would think they would have said more. However I can understand not being able to process it in a manner in which one could adequately communicate it (think post-traumatic stress disorder). On the line of my first post though, what happened that they would even associate this "flu" with what they saw? I'm missing the link ...

Much better than the pilot - but still not very good.
At least the pacing was better and I wasn't bored to tears.

I also agree about the characters not talking about what's happening. It's a contrived device many shows and movies use to drag out the story and create more drama for those other characters when they find out for themselves. I don't equate it to PTSD - that's just a cop-out.

I also don't get how they quickly linked the flu with the zombie-like stuff. It's weird because normally shows with bad writing make the characters so stupid that they're so slow to piece things together - and then this show does the total opposite - jumps to the answer so fast without being presented with any real evidence.

Once buddy gets clean, the junkie angle better be gone. Really don't want to endure another addiction storyline - done too often and it just gets in the way of what this show is really about.

I wonder if the epidemic is still limited to five states.

They link the flu because if you're scratched or slightly bit, then you develop a flu like sickness and die of that, then come back. So it's not a mysterious flu sickness. It has to do with being bitten or infected in some way that causes you to die.

No where in this show's two episode have they been turned without what we already know from TWD.

So why was the Mom all upset when she went into the bathroom?

I guess because she just had to smash the head in on a friend from work. I mean, maybe that would do it... just maybe...

2 shows in, I think this is much much better than I thoguht it would be. That being said, it isn`t that good. It`s decent.

Kind of thinking that just a bit. Since this is not the Walking Dead yet and even then, that is bound to bother someone a bit.

100% improvement over the pilot, which was a real snooze-fest.

Holing up in that shop while downtown L.A. goes berserk seemed like a dumb decision. The father did try to explain that by saying the police wouldn't let them leave, which defied logic.

I have a feeling the shop owners have a zombie relative in the other room from how they were reacting..

Yep. Just like on TWD.

I thought the old lady was acting strange...

This show stinks. Even the zombies look bad.

Two episodes ... That's about right. By the way, the show isn't racist. They gave the daughter a black boyfriend (who is promptly being killed off, but still!).

I thought with the choice of LA and the amount of socio-economic and cultural backgrounds that they would broaden the scope of the show and include more characters. I'm really surprised they made the focus so narrow, only giving brief glimpses at the rest of society through the eyes of the family, seems rather limiting. I think if they had included more perspectives they could have slowed the progression to really focus on the downfall from different angles. Maybe this would have made it even more boring, I know a lot of people were bored with the first episode. But I think focusing in on some of the slow build of the first few encounters would have been more interesting.

The Atlanta group has so many characters and they are often split for no other reason than to further a plot point, it just seems that choosing to narrow in for LA doesn't make sense. Then again, maybe this is premature and they are already headed that direction with the show.

I sort of rolled my eyes when they focused on that plane for a few seconds in the sky as the dumbfuck son was going into downtown. Yup, that's certainly the one that will be the AMC walking dead one off Zombies on a plane special next year.

This second episode was far better than the pilot, which felt like different people were behind it. It still hasn't been a great show or anything, AMC didn't take many risks with this concept. It is about as generic as I could have imagined. Why pick L.A. as a setting if the story could have literally taken place as shown in any suburb across the country?

I still get the feeling this show is being aimed at women more than The Walking Dead.

Because she paid like $200 for that jacket! Do you have any idea how hard it is to get blood stains out?