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I only tripped across this series by accident a year ago and by golly its great.

The casting is superb, the dialogue strong, the plot twists hard to second guess and almost every episode can be watched again and again.

Essentially, this is the story of two brothers caught up in a life of hunting down all the things your parents told you didn't exist. Monsters.

And that Heaven and Hell - and even Purgatory are real - but angels aren't what you learned about in Sunday school, Death the Horseman is pretty cool, and demons can surprise you.

This is like X-Files - without the UFOs, but with more intriguing conspiracy theories. There's lashings of witty dialogue, friction between the very good looking brothers, epic trials to save Earth from the squabbles of celestial beings and demon spawn - plus great fight scenes. Oh and an angel who's captain of God's garrison of warriors.

I can't recall the last time I saw a show run for 8 yrs and still going strong. By the end of it, you'll know more about mythology than you ever thought possible and quite believe they're out there.

Season one is the darkest - and sets the scene for the rest. I give it 10/10 and I think that's a first for me. If you enjoyed Grimm - this is right up your street.

I didn't expect to actually LOL at a series that was intended to be a zombie drama - but the first few episodes had me spontaneously giggling, groaning and rolling my eyes every few minutes.

The cast do all the stupid things I'd expect in a budget slasher movie such as running round making lots of noise when zombies are meant to be attracted by it, doing stupid things that you'd never do in their shoes, acting like sulky randy teenagers, wandering off on their own into the woods...

We all know the formula, but I never thought the writers of such lazy rubbish would get their hands on millions of dollars to make this TV show. It even manages to crowbar in the inevitable small child cliché - they missed a trick not having a cute dog though.

I can rarely recall so many plot holes in a TV show - they just left me thinking 'Why did you do this?!' We're not talking nerdy genre stuff either like how do zombies survive after they've eaten every human - but basic story-telling.

Simple little things like how can you be in a coma after being shot, wake up and discover the hospital looks like its been bombed, everyone has died but somehow you survived and are well enough to ride a bicycle home? A bicycle? And the zombies attacked a month ago, but you lived without medical help/water all that time - yet you've still got a wound that's barely mentioned again?

This is just typical of the unforced stupidity of the story that continues from the first few minutes of Episode 1.

It's also rammed with sentimental tosh, 2-D characters, some dreadful ham-dialogue and scenes that clang 'oh you can see what's coming next'.

I'm going to stick with it for now as its so bad, its funny - but golly, what a huge waste of a good idea. True Blood hit the nail on the head re having vampires/humans in the same context - Walking Dead is just another version of Survivors that keeps slapping me in the face with the enormous and totally unnecessary plot holes/soap opera melodrama.

Why anyone is scoring anything above 5/10 mystifies me. The other reviews giving this the thumbs down are more entertaining than the show itself. Perhaps AMC should employ these IMDb reviewers next time instead!