I’d sort of given up on the Walking Dead last season, due to some incredibly slow episodes and - oddly - my discomfort with zombies who were suddenly RUNNING. Yes, the lack of verisimilitude in zombie biomechanics turned me off.
- 7.3M viewers tuned in to Season 2 premiere of ‘The Walking Dead’ when it aired on October 17, 2011
- 10.9M viewers tuned in for the Season 3 premiere, just shy of a 50% increase from Season 2, and up more than one million viewers from the Season 2 finale which aired on March 18, 2012 source