Walking Dead Episode Reviews: 6.5 NOW

Fuck me this was a bad episode. What a clunker. It's not worth my time to write about what happened.

Outside of Maggie revealing she's pregnant, nothing really happened that hasn't already happened to the other characters already in the first damn season! We get it Alexandrians, the world sucks, grow up! We're way too far into the series to have this sort of display, we watched our main cast go through this in earlier seasons so it's incredibly annoying to watch this again. It's like watching Ted on How I met your Mother say he's into Robin again. Somebody has got to be Marshall and say damnit Ted!

Any suspense you had from the previous episodes got thrown out the window when Rick is running into camp to open the show. He was trapped in an RV last we saw him. They don't show how he got out, just that he did. Thanks for nothing! Pretty much all of the main characters no-showed tonite's episode. No Daryl, Abraham, not even Morgan, Carol or Father Gabriel made appearances and they are at Alexandria!

This season has been really good thus far and then last week was a necessary albeit boring back story episode for Morgan. At least though there was a purpose for it and we needed to know how Morgan got from season 3 to Now. They could have just jumped right back into the frey, but instead we get this filler episode and an awful one at that. I loathe filler episodes. The show does two 8 episode story arcs and have the comics to build off of so it's not like they have to write new story lines each year. Most good episodic dramas write 13 episodes each year and in that time have to advance the story from season to season. There just isn't time to waste especially when each the walking dead does two arcs that are completely independent from each other.

I have read articles that say they have a line to season 10 and on of this show, five + seasons. It just screams greed when they don't make an effort to advance the story. And the ratings justify the means because everyone is still going to watch even when they put out shit like this. They even have a second walking dead series now and and a show that talks about what just happens in a pretentious way. They keep claiming that Glenn isn't dead, which is totally ridiculous! Worst yet, every episode this season has been a commercial for the newest show AMC is going to cancel after one season. Into the Badlands. One of the reasons they extended last week's show to 90 minutes in length was to put in a full length trailer for this Martial arts drama.

No thanks, I'd rather watch reruns of How I Met Your Mother, than watch this show right now. Not that they care, they're still raking in all the money.

Those are my thoughts, feel free to comment below

C.J. Foxx 

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