There's no suddenly about it, I've always hated zombies. They're not even scary, they're just dumb and annoying. The recent popularity of zombies in all types of entertainment is baffling to me, but it allows me to hate more stupid people, so that's a plus.

Hung...and a 3rd season? SERIOUSLY??? The show has a very good cast--but Thomas Jane, Jane Adams, and Rebecca Creskoff are genuine talents on a show with terrible execution and a knack for being unremittingly depressing. I guess HBO was nostalgic for the days when no one could quite understand why they kept renewing ARLI$$ (a show that didn't suck nearly as much as HUNG does) and they'll certainly have a new series in that WTF? category now.

I like zombies because they can't be reasoned with. There's no negotiating with a zombie. I like them because they aren't good and they aren't evil. They just are. They are ravenous, implacable, and relentless.

I think, when done properly, zombies amp the suspense because the hero has to do something to get out alive. Gets hard in a mob.

As for Hung...wow. Saw half of the first season and could not stand it. It was too slow and the stories weren't all that good...they weren't exactly bad, but it was all very "meh" for me.

"Shaun of the Dead" should have been the begining and the end of the most recent Zombie craze. Nuff said.

In the Afterword Simon Pegg wrote for the second volume of The Walking Dead he talks about how zombies are creepy because they are our death personified but also the fear of collectivism swallowing up our individualism. He also points out that their appeal is kind of in the everyman, that those who fight them don't have to be superheroes and allows the reader/viewer to ask themselves what they would do. I am a huge fan of the comic, where most of the scariest moments involve the savagery of other humans as opposed to the dead, so I just hope they do it right.