IvanKaramazov said:
After re-watching this sober, I'm not sure what everybody is complaining about. I think this show is doing a nice job showing how a zombie breakout might escalate and how various people might respond. Some bug out faster than others, like the sick neighbor and the cop. Some try living their lives normally, like the birthday party family and the ex-wife (who is basically oblivious to what's happening). And some people completely misunderstand what they're seeing, like the protesters who think this is a police brutality issue.
I also think the way that people talk or don't talk about makes sense as well. As others have said, none of these characters has the language to be able to talk about zombies. It's logical that they can't really process or make sense out of what they're seeing at this point. The fact that The Slutty Counselor doesn't tell her daughter what she's seen is just a mom trying to shield her kid and not freak her out, a pretty natural tactic.
The writing would be much worse if the mom went straight to "Honey, it seems that the dead are reanimating to feast of the flesh of the living" at this point in the story.
imagine this was real for a second. Would the gov't not issue quarantines? I think they would. Would they not issue mandatory curfews? I think they would. Would they not instruct people to isolate virus carriers? I think they would. None of these things so far have occured. I did hear a radio reference to "stay indoors" but that's pretty benign. An Emergency broadcast by the Surgeon General or head of CDC might go a long ways to stemming panic and allowing healthy individuals the chance to move away from unhealthy ones. Or you could set up receiving camps where you take in thousands of people each day, screen them, seperate them and contain the infected. I mean if w'ere talking end of the world scenarios, then you would take end of the world steps to stop it.
none of this has happened that i'm seeing, yet the cops and the hospital workers all know whats happening and are getting ready to bolt. Maybe i'm too hopeful that we could do better than that as a country in a response to something like this.