The only way I can watch this gobsmackingly stupid show with its turgid dialogue and disposable characters is in one corner of my screen while I work on other things to otherwise distract me from how much nothing or stupidity is on display at the moment.

Yeah, I have a pretty high tolerance for stupidity on this show - honestly, three years or so into a zombie apocalypse, I figure most people realistically would be so frayed around the edges and sick of struggling to survive that it’d be rare to find someone who DOESN’T have at least enough of a death wish to take…

So I suspect a lot of people will be asking:  if everybody who dies become a zombie - as we found that out with Shane way back when - why the heck didn’t they have people on zombie watch? I _think_ it’s because the people didn’t have life threatening injuries and/or had been stabilized- there was no concern of them…

Pointless episode, filler disguised as “action packed”. Anyone with half a brain knew neither Rick or Negan were going to die or suffer in any way in that fight. Pointless.

People turn minutes to hours after they’re dead, not after they’re bitten. He’s not dead or really dying yet, he has enough time to be useful to his people.

The writers of this show just DO NOT CARE if anything makes any sense. Make Maggie a murderer after all of her whining moral superiority over Gregory? Sure. Have Carol and Jerry magically appear when Rick needs them, when they have no form of communication? Sure. Have two people go to Oceanside, who have never spoken…

they already did a reboot. It’s called Fear the Walking Dead... and my God is that a bad show

This rating was much too kind. As tough as I have been on this show in the past, I was also willing to praise it’s strengths and hold out hope that it could improve.

I enjoyed this more than the 6 episodes of total dreck that preceded it, at least this was only 50% dreck and not the full hundred. I find Eugene strangely fascinating so I enjoyed the time spent focusing on him here. But there’s always shit in the casserole with TWD, and those Rick scenes were possibly the most…

“but it plays mostly just like sloppy writing.”

That’s the entire point of the show. The characters grow and adapt and degenerate, and grow again.

I wrote a very lengthy email to Kinja support, explaining that I had been coming to AV Club for years, but never responded to discussions, but NOW that I am trying, no one is bothering to do their jobs to release the pending content.

I agree with a lot of what you said and you really drove home the point that the show has lost the magic, so to speak, and needs a lot of changes. Unfortunately it seems like as long as the show is still relatively commercially successful and certain members of the cast and crew remain untouchable, it’s highly…

The show is the worst of both worlds; they insist on following the storyline of the comics but they don’t respect the comics.

this show is testing my patience. I can abide nonsense, its a zombie apocalypse show for Chrissakes, but come on- Morgan can’t catch 10 people shackled together running through rough hills in the woods? Morgan can’t fight/beat ONE single decaying half-zombie skeleton? The chase alone was embarassing to watch- Morgan…

I just don’t get it. Maybe after another mass shooting I really wanted some escape but I thought it was a good episode. This reviewer (Zach) can always be counted on to disparage the show. And the commentors as well. I’e watched since Season 1 and I’ll continue.

I get so sick of seeing these negative, biased, opinionated articles about TWD. If you don’t like the show, write about one you do. All you’re doing is putting your giz in people’s minds, trying to influence others of your bias. I love TWD and I don’t like these constant crap articles trying to get it canceled.

I would stand by Soullfire’s argument after season 6. Before that there was a clear difference between Rick and the other ‘villains’ (the Wolves, Negan and the likes). I think it’s kind of the point of the show to draw the conclusions Soullfire drew.

Kiara bears an uncanny resemblance to Beth’s mytholog at Couples’ Counseling.