99 Words About … The mistreatment of ‘The Walking Dead’
Vampires have sex appeal. Werewolves, too, apparently.
Zombies, though, are the Rodney Dangerfield of the supernatural.
Even though it averages nearly twice as many viewers as its sister series "Mad Men," AMC slashed the budget for "The Walking Dead" (9 p.m. Sunday).
You think anybody wanted to see an entire season set on Old MacHershel's Farm? With a shuffle-shuffle here and an unnnhhh-unnnhhh there?
Budget cuts.
Yet "Mad Men" was given $250,000 to rent a few seconds of the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows."
That money could have bought at least an extra thousand gallons of zombie innards.
No respect.
- CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE
