Yeah, because the "Walking Dead" is haute cinema.
It started out as a zombie show. Now it's nothing more than a soap opera playing out against a backdrop of zombies.
Does it have to be? I couldn't care less about "haute cinema", myself. I want a good story.
Now if it's run-of-the-mill zombie guts you're after, there's always the Chiller Channel.
I think it would be even worse if it was ONLY about zombies all the time. The first two seasons, it pretty much WAS all about surviving zombies with a little character development sprinkled in. The "soap opera" aspect seems to have been a successful genre for the last thirty or so years, so why not use it to develop characters and their everyday lives in the zombiefide world to keep the series fresh? I'm okay with it.
You don’t have to be haute cinema to have plot, you just just need a writers room that takes pride in their work. David Crane says all plot is soap opera, because soap opera is about making the audience care about the day to day lives of your characters.
Ok, so you don’t like it. You’re excused from watching it and from this thread. bubye