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I nearly missed out on The Walking Dead. You shouldn’t

This is much, much more than a zombie show

18 October 2014

9:00 AM

18 October 2014

9:00 AM

I’m ashamed to say it took me a while to watch an episode of The Walking Dead, the fifth season of which has just begun. I was put off by the zombies. Too sophomoric, as far as I was concerned, only one notch above vampires. I’d stick with more grown-up fare, like The Sopranos and Breaking Bad.

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Toby Young is associate editor of The Spectator.

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