A lot of the politically correct elements are infuriating:
* the white girl dates a black guy, the hispanic druggie has a white girlfriend, yawn, push the envelope with a hispanic guy with the BLACK girlfriend
* the white woman is competent and in charge as a school counselor, the wise latina mother is protecting her son and working as a nurse, but the guy is mostly incompetent. “You thought you saw a light, I’ll just dismiss everything you say until I finally bother to check myself”, does nothing without needling or begging or pushes by the women
* your afraid the power is out, but you don’t bother to stock up on water or food from the dead neighbor’s house - and you live in a state where people have to be prepared if only due to earthquakes
* you saw people eating people and still get antsy about guns
* the military leader has already been hinted at for going crazy
Lol not a good sign when you are actively rooting for the main characters to die. it’s just not working..at least for me anyway...but I imagine the hardcore fans will watch anyway and keep it going.
Plus, he is a young Johnny Depp, and Hollywood loves that.
I don't think we're supposed to like the characters. FTWD is a fascinating view of city people like the one I overheard while in line for the porta-potty at a 10K race. She was telling her friend how stupid her husband was because he liked to shop at Costco. "Like who needs 14 bars of soap?"
FTWD are the people who mock those of us on the prepper threads. And people in LA are exceptionally clueless. I am enjoying watching them flounder in their normalcy bias.