The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead is currently the most-watched show on US television.  And so it returned to TV last night with a new series and a new episode.  The problem is that being the most-watched show does not guarantee quality, and Walking Dead frequency skirts the line of being absolutely dreadful.  And so it was again with last night’s episode, which was frankly just torture porn.  And so, I think I am going to stop watching it.  I tried this before, maybe around this time last year, but somehow it nagged away at me and I caught up.  Not this time – I’m done.  It’s a dumb, poorly scripted, poorly acted apocalyptic soap opera with terrible character development and terrible pacing – albeit with a few amusingly graphic and gory zombie kills.  But with so many other competing and better programs (for example, it’s on at the same time as Westworld – and I made the mistake of watching The Walking Dead over Westworld last night, something I’ll never do again), I need to trim the fat.  So goodbye The Walking Dead – I might read the occasional online recap, but I won’t be watching you anymore.  Next up on my hit list – The Big Bang Theory.  A program that has been on for ages, is well past it’s best, and is no longer particularly funny – yet which continues to also have ridiculously huge viewing numbers and which I inexplicably continue to watch.