I’ve heard on good author­ity that Char­lie Brooker’s Dead Set is a rather excel­lent mini-series. It’s also con­tro­ver­sial, spark­ing an argu­ment on whether or not zom­bies can run.

Simon Pegg is of the belief that they can’t, as he elu­ci­dates in his lat­est arti­cle for The Guardian:

More sig­nif­i­cantly, the fast zom­bie is bereft of poetic sub­tlety. As mon­sters from the id, zom­bies win out over vam­pires and were­wolves when it comes to the title of Most Potent Metaphor­i­cal Mon­ster. Where their pointy-toothed cousins are all about sex and bes­tial sav­agery, the zom­bie trumps all by per­son­i­fy­ing our deep­est fear: death.

Brooker’s five-point retort came, in typ­i­cal style, as part of a recent Com­ment is Free article:

We had to clearly and imme­di­ately dif­fer­en­ti­ate Dead Set from Shaun of the Dead, which had cor­nered the mar­ket on zombie-centric horror-comedy. Blame your­self, Simon: if you’d made that film badly, it wouldn’t have been so pop­u­lar, and draw­ing a dis­tinc­tion wouldn’t have been an issue. Each time one of our zom­bies breaks into a sprint, it’s your own stu­pid tal­ented fault.

I’m unde­cided on the issue.