You mean Andrew Lincoln? It’s not perfect, but is very good. Hell, it’s a better southern accent than a lot of American actors can deliver.
Brilliant! That’d be a great plot line - but it would introduce a whole 'nother set of folks, on a whole 'nother level of survival (helicopter, gas/etc. support for helicopter, etc.). Too much of a leap at this point.
My rewatch thoughts:
I like it even more. I also went back and reread the first trade comic, and it seems the show is much more in line with the comic world than I had thought (horse eating, etc.). Darabont is taking elements from a bit further down the pipe (not a spoiler). He shifted focus away from Glenn for now - but I think it’ll return. The first two episodes need to be about Rick - you have to establish the main character. The show’s been picked up for a second season (or is it an extended first season?) - hopefully the seasons will be longer than Mad Men or Breaking Bad, and really allow for some in-depth character study outside of the main character.
I’m also growing to accept the ramped up zombies. I still don’t like Darabont focusing on individual zombies like they have personality or special skills, but it does speed up the action so we can get to the next dilemma or conversation.
Peeve: In a world inhabited by things that kill you from a single bite, why aren’t we all rushing to the local Harley Davidson store to get leather jackets? Here’s an idea - let’s wear clothing that is both extremely resistant to human bites, as well as flexible and light! And everyone wears some kind of glove. Period!
Spoilers from the comics (but only what’s aired) ahoy:
I completely forgot the part where Glenn and Rick went back into the city for guns, and where the “rub zombie guts all over us” scene comes from. I think the television version did a better job at it - they were doing a lot of talking in the comic, and in the midst of WAY more zombies. People joke about the “organ donor” line - but I thought it worked really well as a straight line. Honestly, as an organ donor, that’s exactly what I’d want to happen to my body. It kept them alive, ferchrissake! In the comics, it was much more utilitarian and sterile (as filthy and contaminated as it was).
Doh! Yup, that’s who I meant. It was hard to force myself not to call him Egg.
Probably true. He’ll definitely survive some way or other though. Possibly one of the first times in his careers that that bloke’s been in a series for more than one episode. 
Why didn’t they put a barricade over the front doors? They had 6 able bodied people, a whole department store and a (10 story?) building to rummage through. At least tape up the glass on the inside doors to make them stronger.
I love me some zombie apocalypse, but i want to see a series where the characters survive the aftermath by using their brains, not through dumb luck. The sheriff should never have survived the end of the first episode.
And i wouldn’t be caught dead (or undead) sleeping in a tent in zombieland. No protection there. Can’t they find a rural house to camp at? I’d feel much safer with four walls around me than some old guy standing lookout on top of an RV.
Think that its excellent so far, I hope it doesn’t degenerate into survivors squabbling and their emotional problems.
I would have let the red neck outside with a key to his handcuffs and a blunt instrument to act as a decoy and take a few Zs with him before he died.
Likewise I’d have thrown heavy objects off of the roof to kill Zs, every one less is one less vector for infection and one less threat to the survivors.
(Though I realise that it’d be a drop in the bucket)
And why oh why don’t they post sentries ?
It irked me that when on the groundfloor of the store they didn’t even keep their eyes on the Z horde outside but carried on their conversation with their backs to them.
The coupls shagging in the woods deserve to die for their sheer stupidity.
But its still good so far.
Agreed on all points. I also agree with wearing protective clothing when you know a single bite will zombie you up. That was a point made in the book “World War Z” (which I recently read, and give two thumbs way up to) - accidents happen, and being able to take a nibble without getting turned is a good thing.
Wearing leather jackets and gloves in the summer in Atlanta will save you from the zombies just long enough to kill you by heat stroke.
That’s no good either. They brought him in as part of the city raiding party, so he knows where the rest of the group is. If he does get free, he’s an even bigger threat.
The only sensible thing to do in the television good-guy moral system is to try to save the murderous racist bad guy, but be unable to (for now).