'Mob City' brings Frank Darabont back to series TV

At first glance, it appears that Frank Darabont has shifted gears big time from "The Walking Dead" to TNT's new drama series "Mob City," lurching from grisly zombies to the dolled-up danger of film noir.

But the writer-director doesn't see it that way. Just as horror and sci-fi movies enthralled him as a young TV watcher — "boom, I was stuck, like a fly in amber, couldn't turn away" — so did the classic mid-century noir of "Double Indemnity" and "Sunset Boulevard."