To give you a comparison, last night, after hearing great things about it, I started watching the movie "How to Blow Up a Pipeline"; what a lame piece of crap that was. I saw it as a first-year film school project. I pushed eject just after they set off the explosions. Who cares what happened. I gave that a 3 star as well.

What's the deserved rating for any film that one can't abide until the closing credits?

I had likewise heard great things about this series and found it at the library yesterday. Oh good!

Well, that didn't last long.

I pulled the plug in episode 4 when the travelers, trying to get across the country while avoiding the "infected" decide that going through Kansas City (rather than, duh. Going around it???) would be a great way to avoid trouble. Idiotic writing.

This after the attempt to get across Boston in episode 2 and running into Zombies who had somehow escaped from the film "World War Z". I swear they hired the same zombie consultants and Foley artists -- Zombies'R'Us? -- as that film. Same zombie behaviour. Same zombie sounds. Same zombie behaviour.

They should have enlisted the choreographer from some Michael Jackson videos.

If you're aware of the stage play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern", this film and WWZ could fit the same premise; the two stories could have easily been occurring simultaneously. Oddly, both even featured Boston. Why didn't this one feature, say, Atlanta? Or Memphis? (They could have resurrected Elvis)

In fact, I can't recall the several films and small-screen series that I thought this series drew from; there wasn't an original bone in its body.

On the other hand, episode 3 I did appreciate because it featured new, transitory characters. It wasn't fabulous writing but the break from the main story was enriching.

Fungi deserve better!