Mary McNamara: How 'The Walking Dead' changed the course of the TV revolution
"The Walking Dead" came to an end on Sunday. Though I, like many viewers, stopped watching several seasons ago (OK, pretty much when Glenn died), attention must be paid.
If not to the actual finale — honestly, can it really be considered a finale when there are so many spinoffs in the works? — then to what it means.
"The Walking Dead" is the last founding member of the 21 century's television revolution. It leaves a popular culture and industry so different from the one it entered that it's all but unrecognizable.
AMC debuted its adaptation of Robert Kirkman's graphic-novel vision of a zombie apocalypse , back when the geek fest was still kind of scrappy and new
