That's called "projection".......That may be what first attracted you to the series but it's not what kept the rest of us watching..........LOL!
Nah. Without the zombies, you might as well place it as a daytime drama. Take out even the title for “Dead” or “walking’ and it would be as any other drama.
David Chase said so in an interview: the mafia is a red herring and he didn’t care if people watched it for the mafia or for the family angle. And I know he pitched the mafia angle to HBO first before the family aspect of it.
I know as I spoke to him here in Hollywood years ago. He was the creative force but Grey Brillstein were the ass kickers to the production (they’re asshat libs but they get along with everybody and don’t impose their politics in business conversations).