Like superheroes, IMO zombies aren’t a genre, they’re an element — they exist within a genre (often action, horror, or thriller especially) but aren’t one unto themselves.
I think the Walking Dead having a good first season or two that a lot of people watched and then quickly becoming unwatchable garbage wore people out on them.
A scathing work of satire that manages to get insanely popular and become a cultural phenomenon.
That was Don Quixote which killed chivalric romances, and that was Blazing Saddles which killed whitewashed TV Westerns.
what killed zombies? they were really popular for awhile
Like superheroes, IMO zombies aren’t a genre, they’re an element — they exist within a genre (often action, horror, or thriller especially) but aren’t one unto themselves.
I think the Walking Dead having a good first season or two that a lot of people watched and then quickly becoming unwatchable garbage wore people out on them.