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I'd be willing to bet some of these odd choices are probably budget-driven. Giant zombie battle sequences are super expensive. Look at the mother-ship show. No matter how huge TWD has gotten in the ratings (or how much money it's earned AMC), they've always kept the production relatively low budget. Same for this one, I guess.
Though that doesn't explain why characters aren't panicking and screaming questions about what's happening in the rest of the country or panicking about the virus or panicking because they can't go to work or panicking because they're running out of money -- is money still a thing? -- or just panicking in general. Nobody seems to be all that panicky at this point. It's just not realistic. You can panic on a budget, AMC!
Also -- total side note -- it doesn't make any sense to me that in a city of 10 million people some guys in Humvees have been able to keep what surely must be a tsunami of zombies away from a chain link fence. And they're not even seeing anything from a distance except a flashing light in a window? Seems like the density of zombie incidents should be a lot higher because of the population. Production budget, I'm sure. But still.
Agreed on all points.
I also was looking forward to seeing a more apocalyptic break down of society. I thought that's why they chose to do this in L.A. of all places.