The Stadium
- Episode aired Apr 11, 2019
- TV-MA
- 20m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
1.4K
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As the group approaches the stadium, everything goes sideways. The survivors blast through their bullets -- and their options.As the group approaches the stadium, everything goes sideways. The survivors blast through their bullets -- and their options.As the group approaches the stadium, everything goes sideways. The survivors blast through their bullets -- and their options.
Michael Aucoin
- Gangster Officer - turned Zombie
- (credit only)
Melissa Cambridge
- Survivor
- (uncredited)
- …
Ron J. Hamelin
- Guard
- (uncredited)
Kerry Lambert
- Survivor
- (uncredited)
Kealey Storrs
- Father
- (uncredited)
- …
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAs with Heist (2019), there is barely any dialogue throughout this episode (though there's quite a lot of screaming).
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What's with the hate?
I honestly don't get all of the hate is coming down on this show from other reviewers. They seem to like their zombie shows to have scads of dialogue, endless amounts of backstory, and not that many genuine scares at all. This series, however, delivers the goods. Sure, it's not like other shows that take their time developing characters, but it's hard to say that the characters in this series don't get some development with time. Rose, for example, goes from a somewhat weepy housewife to the unquestioned leader of the pack. Also, the charactet of Sun doesn't speak a word of English , and yet she is given one of the most moving monologues in the entire series , one which you don't have to understand in order to get the depth of its emotion. Then there's Barbara, who gets a very haunting speech about the first time she saw a zombie and tried to figure out whether there was anything human left in there , which is exactly the same sort of philosophy that comes up in the early episodes of other zombie shows . Surely all that's worth getting some credit for.
Two of the other saving graces for the show is the use of fast zombies and an incredibly virulent infection a la 28 DAYS LATER that turns the recently departed into zombies even before their hearts have stopped beating ( and in one case arguably before it stops beating, but the show isn't perfect). Fast zombies have always been more frightening to me than the type that we get in THE WALKING DEAD. In fact, the characters in that show probably only get character development because they have so much free time running away from fast-moving former corpses. There's also something terrifying about the idea then if you accidentally kill someone, you'd better get busy and kill them immediately again because they will become an immediate threat. This conceit creates some of the best tension in the show, because it means that the inevitable human bad guys cannot be so easily dispatched as they are in THE WALKING DEAD.
Another great source of tension is the use of hand-held cameras and very quickly shot scenes. Admittedly, in some of the episodes, this works against the story a bit because it's a little too easy to get lost in all of the blurriness. That being said, it is a good visual representation of the chaos of the characters themselves are going through, and you rarely get that sort of thing in those previously mentioned Zombie series.
Mind you, as I said, the series is not perfect. There are few characters, such as Spears, who we would really like to learn more about. There are also some characters the carry the idiot ball so long and so hard that you have to wonder how they survived the initial outbreak at all (Lance, you're cute and all, but God, you are an idiot). And then there's the aforementioned conversion that happens almost instantaneously, before a character has even died. It would be nice if this virus were somewhat consistent.
That being said, this show did for me was another reviewer here said it did for him: it genuinely scared him. I can't remember the last time I watched a horror movie or television series that I had to take breaks from in order to come down from. I never had to do that with THE WALKING DEAD. So why are so many reviewers using that show as they were yardstick to measure this one, when they have really nothing in common except for the ravenous Undead?
Two of the other saving graces for the show is the use of fast zombies and an incredibly virulent infection a la 28 DAYS LATER that turns the recently departed into zombies even before their hearts have stopped beating ( and in one case arguably before it stops beating, but the show isn't perfect). Fast zombies have always been more frightening to me than the type that we get in THE WALKING DEAD. In fact, the characters in that show probably only get character development because they have so much free time running away from fast-moving former corpses. There's also something terrifying about the idea then if you accidentally kill someone, you'd better get busy and kill them immediately again because they will become an immediate threat. This conceit creates some of the best tension in the show, because it means that the inevitable human bad guys cannot be so easily dispatched as they are in THE WALKING DEAD.
Another great source of tension is the use of hand-held cameras and very quickly shot scenes. Admittedly, in some of the episodes, this works against the story a bit because it's a little too easy to get lost in all of the blurriness. That being said, it is a good visual representation of the chaos of the characters themselves are going through, and you rarely get that sort of thing in those previously mentioned Zombie series.
Mind you, as I said, the series is not perfect. There are few characters, such as Spears, who we would really like to learn more about. There are also some characters the carry the idiot ball so long and so hard that you have to wonder how they survived the initial outbreak at all (Lance, you're cute and all, but God, you are an idiot). And then there's the aforementioned conversion that happens almost instantaneously, before a character has even died. It would be nice if this virus were somewhat consistent.
That being said, this show did for me was another reviewer here said it did for him: it genuinely scared him. I can't remember the last time I watched a horror movie or television series that I had to take breaks from in order to come down from. I never had to do that with THE WALKING DEAD. So why are so many reviewers using that show as they were yardstick to measure this one, when they have really nothing in common except for the ravenous Undead?
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- emperordalek
- May 27, 2019
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