Ever since zombies first rose up on the big screen, they’ve spent decades dominating movies and more in their shuffling hordes. One of the archetypal horror characters , the walking dead have endured in popular culture for over half a century, emerging and evolving in new forms, eating away at the collective consciousness. There’s an inherent sense of the uncanny to a zombie — someone who’s neither dead nor alive, a former friend that has become a mindless enemy, all infused with the terror of cannibalism — and yet they’re also a blank slate, a metaphor ripe to reflect the fears and foes of whatever year they appear in.

With the obvious caveat that no TV shows can munch their way into our line-up (no, not even The Last Of Us — which, technically, isn't about zombies anyway in all fa

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