Reviews

Firstly, people need to know how a ratings system works:

10/10 - The best thing on TV/movie ever 1/10 - The worst thing on TV/movie ever

Now that's said, how anyone can score this episode as 10/10 is beyond me. Its certainly not the best thing on TV, its not even the best episode of TWD.

The series has been reduced to aimlessly moving from one group of the worst people on Earth to the next. The Walkers have been reduced to a mere inconvenience, claiming the occasional red shirt when the plot breaks down.

It's a far cry from the early series where TWD probably was one of the best programmes on television. Thsts why I had high hopes for this series with it being the finale, but with just over half a series, and some threatened for TV movies, I can't see how TWD will be wrapped up in any sort of satisfactory way.

It even seems to be suffering from a loss of budget with episodes now moving from a dark forest, to a dark abandoned cabin, to a dark tunnel, to a dark abandoned warehouse etc etc

Like some other franchises that have come before, it has gone on for one, probably two, series too long. The writers have run out of ways to continue a story that should have arguably already been concluded. However they are up against a TV network that appears to care more about churning out product to a loyal audience, who are invested and will stick with it in the hope that there will be a payoff at the end, rather thqn putting out quality content.

Or maybe I'm being overly critical and it's the journey that's the most important thing, not how things turn out in the end. If that is the case, then this series should have ended with Rick's departure as it was his journey to begin with after all.