When you think of The Walking Dead, drugs what immediately comes to mind is probably zombies. Yet at its core, prostate AMC’s hit horror drama is more about the constant struggle for survival we all face in our daily lives – just cranked up a few hundred notches. We watch how each characters reacts to the world around them, decease and to each other, while of course also wondering who will live and who will die.

So, NBC might not have been too far off base when they originally suggested to creator Frank Darabont that maybe the zombie drama should instead focus on some of those more basic ideas. Before the show was ever picked up by AMC, Darabont first presented the script to NBC, the network …

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