Dollar-for-dollar, AMC’s “The Walking Dead” has become the most ridiculous show on TV, if you take into consideration its large budget vs. its corny scripts.
And tonight was heavily billed as lead character Rick Grimes’ last episode. And this episode was mostly a dream sequence after he was impaled last episode. In the dream, he was able to visit with past characters — except his late son and wife. Perhaps the actors who play them were not available.
But — spoiler alert — perhaps it really wasn’t the last episode for the comic book character played by Andrew Lincoln.
After what seemed like his explosive death, and a long commercial break, he’s found by a fleeing character, who also happens to have a pal with a helicopter. They save him, apparently.
Essentially, the show chickened out and kept Rick alive; much like how the once great Showtime show “Dexter” went from smart to stupid and showed its title character slyly alive in the closing seconds of its finale. By the finale, though, no one cared.
Tonight’s “The Walking Dead” then fast forwards a couple of years and Rick’s kid Judith is now older and somehow a savvy survivalist running things.
Which is a leap in logic. If Rick is indeed alive somewhere, wouldn’t he have found his way back to his kid in these years since his departure?
I’d love for this show to be better. In its early seasons, I’d DVR each episode and watch them two or three times, kept at the edge of my seat with each viewing.
Now the show has more characters — and thus confusion — than “Orange Is the New Black,” so it’s hard for us to feel attached to any of these people. No one character gets much screen time.
Now I watch this show with my family and we laugh throughout it at all the trite writing. It’s a weekly event similar to watching an Ed Wood movie.
With all of the money this show has wouldn’t it be great if they spent, say, 10 percent on the script writing, as opposed to buying more tankers of fake blood?
I guess I’ll keep watching. The effects are great and modern politics makes me hanker for an undead apocalypse.
Just I wish this show could be great again.
—Darren Johnson
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