The series has no story arc, simply dragging on with thematically repetitive situations. The show is terribly inconsistent in its quality. Moreover, the show is often infuriately stupid: in what characters do, how scenes develop, and what is put in versus left out in the story.
The first 2 seasons are pretty good, as the show gets started with introducing and sketching out characters. The series slides downhill from there, descending into sheer dumb dross by season 7, from which the series never recovers.
The storytelling is typically disjointed. The cinematography is often bad. Scenes are arbitrarily cut in a dumb attempt to build suspense.
Only about half of the actors are decent at their jobs. It's not so much bad acting as bad direction of 3rd-rate actors.
The lead character for much of the series, Rick, is only consistent in displaying erratic, and mostly bad, judgment. Almost all characters in the series display no character development, only mental instability. The only truly sympathetic character is Darryl, though that is not apparent until season 4. Most everyone else in the series is flawed in psychologically self-contradictory ways. Considering that this series is about relationships and psychology, that's damning the scriptwriters who don't understand what they are writing about.
There are so many TV series so much better than the Walking Dead. Don't start. Until you are an idiot, you'll be disappointed.
The first 2 seasons are pretty good, as the show gets started with introducing and sketching out characters. The series slides downhill from there, descending into sheer dumb dross by season 7, from which the series never recovers.
The storytelling is typically disjointed. The cinematography is often bad. Scenes are arbitrarily cut in a dumb attempt to build suspense.
Only about half of the actors are decent at their jobs. It's not so much bad acting as bad direction of 3rd-rate actors.
The lead character for much of the series, Rick, is only consistent in displaying erratic, and mostly bad, judgment. Almost all characters in the series display no character development, only mental instability. The only truly sympathetic character is Darryl, though that is not apparent until season 4. Most everyone else in the series is flawed in psychologically self-contradictory ways. Considering that this series is about relationships and psychology, that's damning the scriptwriters who don't understand what they are writing about.
There are so many TV series so much better than the Walking Dead. Don't start. Until you are an idiot, you'll be disappointed.