The Mist Revisited

The Walking Dead is Frank Darabont's tv remake of The Mist ( with Zombies taking the place of scary monsters) and with the series drawing to a close, I must say that I have really been caught up in this bleak journey into apocalypse.
The Mist is an interesting and underrated movie which took a cross section of  the American public and documented just how they fared when faced   with the deadly threat of supernatural monsters ( the monsters being an obvious metaphor for the terrorist threat post 9/11)

In a similar vein the few Atlanta survivors of the Zombie threat in The Walking Dead have to face their own demons, prejudices and sense of self as a result of disaster.(though the characters are not quite as defined as they were in the movie)
The survivor group  comprises of rednecks hunter and cop  Norman Reedus  and Jon Bernthal , moderate career girl Laurie Holden and liberal old guy Jeffrey DeMunn  as well as the usual mousy housewife, obligatory nice black couple and couple of cute kids and it is slightly unfortunate that we don't see quite enough of the psychological hoops the cross section of this American population has to jump through when faced with a terrible non homegrown threat.

I will watch with interest how this cracking and at times terribly tense tv series will turn out in the newly commissioned second series.................hummm if the same thing happened to me...I would be the soft as butter East Coast Liberal hiding behind the redneck holding a crossbow!