10 episodes that show how The Walking Dead turned into a cultural juggernaut
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It was just supposed to be a cool little zombie show. When Frank Darabont, the acclaimed writer-director best known for his Stephen King adaptations like The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, first discovered Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead, a black-and-white comic about a small band of survivors trying to…