Fox has just announced that one of its big hit series – The Walking Dead – is getting a family-friendly edited version to be broadcast earlier in the evening. Leaving aside the obvious gags about how the bowdlerised version of a bloodthirsty action drama set after a zombie-driven collapse of civilisation might make for a tidy five minutes of airtime, why?
There really is no shortage of “young adult” fiction, either on the page or on the screen, sloshing around our collective culture right now. Teen drama is omnipresent. If it didn’t start with Harry Potter, the tales of the boy wizard were at least a tipping point.
Right now, the big Tumblr-friendly fantasy drama is Divergent. It’s a sort of Brave New World knockoff that owes a substantial debt to the tone and casting of The Hunger Games. Next month some other property will come along to be distilled into animated gifs by twenty- and-thirtysomethings that ought really to know better.
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