Confused by all of the praise heaped on this shockingly standard zombie apocalypse story? Well, that makes at least two of us. There is nothing original here to note and nothing that hasn't been done better in the countless Romero knock-offs that have seem to have infected everyone's taste lately. I assume much of the appeal comes from the gun-crazy survivalist camp that know nothing about "Lone Wolf and Cub" and have no patience to read "The Road." "LOU" isn't as good as either, nor is it really even a mediocre Romero clone. There's some nice window dressing - particularly an unmasked Pascal, a tragic arcade date, and a brief Offerman interlude - but if "The Walking Dead" hadn't already exhausted these already exhausted storylines it might be easier to overlook the show's frequent reliance on genre tropes. It's sincere enough, and somehow that makes it all the more cynical.