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The latest AMC show doesn't fit into the same genre as "Mad Men," but it is likely to be a success.
Valerie Warrington

Amid the market's flood of comic book inspired movies comes a television show adaptation of the popular comic book series, "The Walking Dead."

The new AMC show doesn't fit into the category of "Mad Men," the most popular show on the channel. Instead, "The Walking Dead" fits into its own unique category--a horror television drama.

The series is set in a world that has been infested with aggressive zombies who threaten the lives of the surviving humans. The New York Daily News reports that this isn't some "campy" horror flick like "Dawn of the Dead." Instead, the news magazine dubs it a "hard watch".

Although the series sounds like a cheesy horror flick, it actually delves into the moral corruptness of the human race. Like many of AMC's shows, it also involves flawed characters and a dark mood. The humans are now in full on survival mode, and their behavior is dramatically affected by the presence of flesh eating zombies.

Without giving the specifics away, it's safe to say the behavior of the survivors at times becomes more reprehensible than that of the zombies, who exist for the sole purpose of devouring human flesh and creating more zombies.

Director Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile) opens up exclusively about the series to Time.com. He senses the recent popularity of zombies, which were not always mainstream ideas for a series.

"It absolutely blows my mind that zombies, which, for decades, was this subgenre of horror that appealed to a core group of geeks like me, has gotten so much mainstream acceptance in the last five years," he said. "All these years, all these decades, I was part of this little group of people with a very specialized interest, and suddenly this obscure thing has blossomed into grandmothers walking into Barnes and Noble and buying zombie books for their grandkids. It's a very strange feeling. I've been busy on this production for a year, and I poke my head up and, all of a sudden, zombies are everywhere."

Due to the recent popularity of zombies and the cult following of this classic comic book series, AMC is likely to have another hit to add to their television lineup.