I haven't read the books, but I wonder if homeboy's partner was nailing his wife before all the shit went down. I have a feeling he was.

Also, do we know how long he was in a coma? I don't remember them saying.
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In KC terms, I think he's saying, if you needed supplies and were out in the wilderness, why wouldn't you go to the Wal-Mart in Blue Springs instead of going all the way downtown to the Sprint Center.

In KC terms, why the **** isn't he seeing josh Grobin at the sprint center on july 11th? It's josh ****ing grobin!

Because you could play all day at the college basketball experience and there wouldn't be any lines.
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Yeah, you'd have to go through a lot of populated areas in Atlanta in order to get downtown. They showed him going down the highway, maybe the idea the zombies weren't bothering with the highway? I don't know.

When the guy was talking about sneaking in and out for supplies, I don't think he meant that he went to downtown Atlanta specifically for supplies.

I was thinking that they had gone downtown at the beginning of the outbreak, when there weren't as many zombies, because the feds were telling people there was a safe zone there. As the outbreak continued to spiral out of control, they found themselves stuck there. And he was sneaking into other buildings trying to find supplies, but for whatever reason didn't think that he could make it out of downtown.

Well they made it pretty obvious that the group went there from the camp. They showed people in the camp starting to worry that they haven't heard from the expeditionary group in a while. I don't think they've been stuck downtown since the outbreak. They also talk how they try to sneak in and out of the area without grabbing the zombies' attention.

Ah, gotcha. I didn't pick that up during the episode, but now I remember it from next week's preview. In that case, it does seem stupid that they would have gone all the way into downtown.

Something else I noticed was that a few of the zombies seemed to show some sort of intelligence. Specifically, the guy that picked up the rock to smash at the door and the guy that climbed over the fence. Not sure if these were just methods of ratcheting up the tension, but they go against the norm of most zombie movies, so it may have a deeper implication.

Good point.

One thing I don't like about the show is the lack of any sort of time frame. I want to know how long it's been since the outbreak, how fast it spread, etc. It seems they're hiding it on purpose to (unsuccessfully) avoid potholes.

I think what they've done is kind of modeled their fictional Atlanta as a bigger version of a frontier town, kind of how there's the 'thoroughfare' and there's the surrounding wilderness with nothing in between. Picture the view of the highway leading into town with nothing on the sidelines and expand it to, no matter which way you approached, that's what it was like going into town.

Not realistic, but a way to set their tale where they wanted, depending on the scene.

heh, Laurie Holden is another Darabont regular from The Majestic and The Mist.

Great 2nd episode.....im positively shocked how they are pushing the boundarys of what can be shown on basic cable. Pretty nasty stuff

No kidding. The scene was easily as gruesome as anything I've seen in a rated "R" movie.

I literally got a little nauseous watching it. Not necessarily because

/gag

Exactly. Just the thought of it is brutal.