It actually might be saving face on AMC's part. If they showed the two episodes on back-to-back weekends instead of one, then Fear Season 2 would have ended on October 9 — thus, fans would have been expecting the flagship show to return the following Sunday, October 16. (Season 6 of the show began the weekend after…

Even Kirkman, when asked about it on Talking Dead, had no real answer as to why Strand chose to do that. He all but admitted it was for plot convenience and that they wanted to show more of the hotel group.

It might have worked were it not for their injuries, but Travis would have likely seen through the lie considering they had already told Madison (not knowing her connection to Travis) their driver wrecked a truck and that he was dead.

Not only that, but the actor officially announced on Talking Dead he would be taking a role on Agents of Shield. Chris is dead.

Same, though I wasn't suffering from depression. It was just such a punch to the gut because of how much joy he brought to so many.

The show is neither as good as its biggest fans (i.e. Chris Hardwick) will swear to you it is, nor as bad as the echo chamber of hate watchers here will tell you it is.

Yep. The back half of 2 and the front eight of 3 was an excellent run.

Oh, there's plenty of that for this show. It's one of my favorite parts about reading the comments week after week, then finding those same people back once again the next week.

I wouldn't say this show has a high budget. If anything, the budget is woefully short of what it should be relative to the money it brings in. The entire thing feels low-rent save for the zombies.

I got it. The entire back eight of Season 3 was such a mess, though it did have some good episodes ("Clear," the one where the Governor and Rick meet face to face and the Merle-centric penultimate episode). But between stalling for time, all of the Andrea nonsense and that disaster of a finale, it was clear the…

Are you talking the individual episodes from the front half of Season 4, or Seasons 1, 2 and 5? Because I thought all of the sickness episodes were pretty strong.

It's really quite simple: The show will end with Rick dying. The comics will extend way past that point when Carl takes over as the main protagonist.

People crapped on them, but I will always defend the Governor episodes as being necessary to make 4x08 such a satisfying payoff to the end of his story and everyone's time at the prison. Plus, if you have David Morrisey, you might as well use him, and he didn't really fit in with the sickness arc that began that…

I've been wanting TWD comics to explore a group that has an extreme religious take on the zombie apocalypse for a while. I hope this show isn't the only time Kirkman tries to do that.

Except we all know they aren't killing him, because he's one of the show's few bright spots, even though he hasn't done much this half season.

I just hope the writers embrace that instead of going for the predictable redemption arc at some point with Chris.

She and Cliff Curtis have been given incredibly dull roles and are clearly putting in the bare minimum required of them.

She's a good, not great, actress. But yeah, it's obvious she's bored to tears with this show. Same with Travis. Neither role is remotely interesting.

I agree. Not to say they should be winning Emmys or anything, but I think Kim Dickens and Cliff Curtis have more in them than this.

Personally, I've enjoyed the snippets into the past of characters such as Strand, Daniel, Nick and Ofelia. It's something I wish the main show had done more of early on (I loved it when they show Abraham's story in the series of flashbacks during that one Season 5 episode). The problem is the storytelling in the…