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characters have had to get used to their brutal new reality. Equally slowly, this has enabled the show to begin to play with the boundaries between zombie and human, suggesting that interpretations can vary, that appropriate treatment is contentious, and that a spectrum of positions is apparent, rather than a hard binary divide between those who are human and those who are not. This blurring, and the questions it raises, help to mark out The Walking Dead as a great show and one of pedagogical and political value. Gradually, the undead become a background condition: an