So no easy way to find TV show reviews?

I'm certainly hopeful. Last season had some similar problems, with a bad Arya arc, Jon Snow acting like an utter fool, etc. but they pulled it together with an absolutely flawless season finale.

seems like it's ok if the living carry them across

What doesn't make sense is the entire wight hunt.

Just a newborn being eaten by dogs

It's not that miscalculated, you're just emphasizing silly unimportant "plot holes".

Don't obsess over the unimportant

For a minute I was thinking that Eugene was going to be a turncoat who betrayed the group…but no. That would have been interesting and unexpected.

"ISIL and other extremists are probably a greater threat to the U.S. than the Soviet Union was in 1983"