The Walking Dead (season 2)
| The Walking Dead (season 2) | |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
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| Original network | AMC |
| Original release | October 16, 2011 – March 18, 2012 |
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The second season of The Walking Dead, an American horror-drama television series on AMC, premiered on October 16, 2011, and concluded on March 18, 2012, consisting of 13 episodes. Developed for television by Frank Darabont, the series is based on the eponymous series of comic books by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. It was executive produced by Darabont, Kirkman, Glen Mazzara, David Alpert, and Gale Anne Hurd, with Mazzara assuming the role of showrunner after Darabont's departure from the series.
The season was well received by critics, and won Best Television Presentation at the 38th Saturn Awards and Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie, or Special at the 64th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards. The season finale episode was viewed by 9 million viewers, making it the highest rated episode of the series to that point and the most viewed episode of an original series on AMC in history, up until the premiere of the show's third season, which was watched by 10.9 million viewers.
This season adapts material from issues #7–12 of the comic book series and introduces notable comic characters Hershel Greene (Scott Wilson) and his daughter, Maggie (Lauren Cohan). Mainly set at the Greenes' farm, the season continues the story of Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his group of survivors as they continue to survive in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by flesh-eating zombies, dubbed "walkers". Eventually, after an accident, the group encounters and discovers Hershel's isolated farm, where tensions arise among members of Rick's group and the mysterious inhabitants of Hershel's farm.
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