The Walking Dead has become the most boring show on television

NY Post ^ | December 5, 2015 | Kat George

[Oshkalaboomboom]

The zombie apocalypse, it would seem, is an infinite source of story inspiration. What would individuals become? What would humanity devolve to? What would the world turn into? And yet somehow, The Walking Dead has managed to become the most boring show on television. Granted, I do not watch every single show on TV (because even work-from-home writers need to shower sometimes), but I can say with fair certainty I’d rather watch that show about Alaskan prospectors than AMC’s zombie saga. And when I say that I mean an episode where they prospect almost nothing at all. That’s how boring The Walking Dead has become.

(It’s worth mentioning here that I’m about to get into some spoilers, but most of them are a few seasons old by now. With that being said, let’s get on with the show…)

Let me qualify this announcement: TWD wasn’t always boring. It had a strong start, and a gripping first few seasons that might be comparable to Lost, another show which long outstayed its welcome. When viewers first entered the world of TWD, as we did with Lost, we were immediately thrown into the middle of catastrophe. The first episode of TWD taps into a very specific, very universal apocalypse anxiety. Namely, that is that the apocalypse will happen when we’re not looking, and that we’ll walk out into it alone, with no context for what happened, and no information about the state the world is in. And like Lost, there’s the mystery of the CDC, which is very Dharma Initiative-y, and the hermit scientist Jenner is very Desmond inside the hatch-y (although not half as handsome).

Indeed, TWD’s first season is responsible for some of the most iconic imagery in recent television history.

[Jack Straw from Wichita]

Become?!?

[itsahoot]

Why aren't you people watching Homeland instead?

Watch this clip for a real treat.

Quinn telling it like it is.

[itsahoot]

I like Fargo. Season two is as good as season one, which is a rarity any more.

Better actually. Homeland is great this season but last year was lousy with their near pedophiliac female predator.

[cripplecreek]

I like the Fargo format where each season is a new story. In fact I think this season has been even better.

[itsahoot]

My belief is that this show is not a horrow show, it is actually a western.

Actually almost all the shows are just variations of Gun Smoke. In fact Star Trek used most of the same characters.

[itsahoot]

I like the Fargo format where each season is a new story.

I like the story because it actually happened, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. :-)

[Hoodat]

Damn straight. That is awesome. And true.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

My belief is that this show is not a horrow show, it is actually a western.

According to my wife it's a soap opera that happens to have zombies in it.

[Sybeck1]

Four or five? I remember that Grenade in the tank was important in the first season

[sargon]

I typically tune out shows about the occult such as this.

Huh? Occult?

The Walking Dead is about a deadly virus screwing up human civilization royally.

There is absolutely ZERO occult content.

You're thinking about some other zombie universe if you're concerned about the occult...

[aimee5291]

especially Daryl ..anyway I like the show and don’t miss it..some episodes are better than others but still a show I enjoy

[CodeToad]

$80,000 every quarter for “software maintenance”, yet, those characters STILL show up. They are easily fixed, too, BTW.

[Olog-hai]

I’m getting a couple of interesting pings about that comment. Absolutely none of them are knee-jerk reactions about some kind of guilt over watching that show.

[Vince Ferrer]

How about this for a season, or to end the show. Rick's tribe becomes successful. Others are too. But gradually they encounter French Canadians, who have largely survived intact as their zombies froze in winter and were easily dispatched. Hundreds of thousands or a million survived. Eastern Canada has a lot of hydropower so they have electricity and technology. They see the rest of the continent as being open for colonization. So gradually they come south, taking up land and building cities. But they don't rescue groups like Rick's tribe. They consider them feral and not worth rescuing.

So the situation is like the colonial times, with Rick's tribe a small band being squeezed out like the indians were. Should they fight the Canadians? Go out in a blaze of glory? Dwindle away and be forgotten? Try to learn French and be accepted?

[Zman516]

That is when I realized I Was becoming bored with TWD. I didn’t really care whether Glen survived or not, although I knew he’d be back.

[cripplecreek]

I’ve always said I’m staying in Michigan for the zombie apocalypse. Maybe Beaver Island in Lake Michigan.

[Flag_This]

"My only complaint is that every time Rick is looking for his son, it's "CORAL! CORAL! CORAL!"

[Lazamataz]

$80,000 every quarter for “software maintenance”, yet, those characters STILL show up. They are easily fixed, too, BTW.

Tried to tell John. All he has to do is HTML encode out of the database.

It's also a security risk not to encode. If something bad gets into the DB, a smart hacker could harvest everyone's cookies. Someone has a banking app open in another tab and they are done.

[PLMerite]

“ROFLMAO!.......I’m laughing because my take on your statement implies that there is some other way to actually legitimize the existence of ZOMBIES..............LOL! “

I was thinking more along the lines of a supernatural cause. Act of God type stuff - where there is no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the earth.

[spetznaz]

You make a good point. If it was simple it would have been fixed by now. Thanks for giving a solution.