Preface: I've wanted to see this TV series when it first came out but haven't seen an episode yet and i'm crushed to hear it totally blows ass now... anywho...

I was in coffee shop/bar this morning and they had Cast Away on one of the TVs (obviously not a beatnik-type shop)... and I thought of this thread. I don't mean to say anything about Cast Away as a movie, I've only seen it once when it first came out... but the "learning to figure shit out" segments of that movie I thought were among the most interesting at the time.

Zombah movies, tend to rush through this part for obvious reasons, but in a TV series you have so much room to just watch people figure shit out. Maybe people wouldn't find that interesting, but I think it's what is missing. Sure you aren't going to re-create the lone man... but idk, maybe you could. Something like this should follow multiple groups of people (lost-esque) and maybe there is a plot thread with whole episodes with just this one guy. He lives out in the country, and the small town near where he lives happens to be totally eff'd.

I think the key is authentic dialogue and situations... You can start out with a group of people... and do lots of improve activities to create dialog. It's fairly simple... just think... ok, what would this person honestly do. What would that person honestly do if they were in this situation. Plus having reasonably self-aware people that are excited or think it's hilarious that there are actual zombies for the first several episodes and then shifting to real problems. I felt like seeing Cast Away, (I just stopped and watched the scene where he's trying to open the coconut... and it made me think.. "damn this is so genuine..." and thought that should be essential to teh awesome zombies series.