This was once one of my favorite shows, and now it's just complete garbage. I'm a huge fan of the comics, so I've stuck it out hoping it would get better. I'm waiting on events from the comics to happen to see if they can do justice to them, and constantly I am let down. Every plot element original to show is filled to the brim with terrible writing, from the trash people who forgot how to talk in less than three years to the stupid decisions the main characters constantly make to pad the running time of these plots. Even the interesting subplot of Eugene's trip to the dark side is chock full with "Eugene-speak" to a point where it becomes obnoxious! It's like the writers for this show have lost all ability to write with subtlety, with earned character development (characters act out of character to suit the plot constantly), and with any real sense of tension. The midseason finale has finally made me decide to drop this show. Without spoiling it, the showrunner Scott Gimple has seriously committed to a gigantic deviation from the comics. He's completely broken the narrative thread of the source material. What that means is we can look forward to more and more content like the trash people. No thanks, I'm done.

This review was written a week after the halfway point in the season.

This season has gone from bad to unwatchable in the first 8 episodes.

The writing has taken a drastic turn for the worse as our stalwart heroes bumble around with a "plan" that no one knows making decisions that boggle the mind.

Most expensive season to date on Amazon and not worth the purchase.

OK, maybe 10 outta ten is a little too much at this point, but it is TWD. I cannot bring myself to rate it less than that. The plots are getting dumber and dumber, and missing conversations we'd like to hear, but it is all we got here. Maybe I'm wrong, and humans really would be the most dangerous creatures in a world gone bad. Zombies are just speed bumps to the plot at this point. Half the time now I yell at the TV, and try to tell them how to protect themselves from the evil doers. Here's one they axtually did. MINOR SPOILER__For several seasons I've yelled at the shows heroes to put spike strips or nails in the roads to keep the baddies from driving to their front door and killing them. So what did they finally do, they put the spike strips at their front door, and NOT 5 miles away from their front door. That is just dumb, but maybe people get dumber by breathing zombie atmosphere. hahaha.

Once a TWD fan always a TWD fan 'til the bitter end, whether the plots get dumb or the dialogue is wonky. The concept of the show wins in spite of its flaws. Like gasoline miraculously appearing in cars when no gas stations exist anywhere. Bullets for machine guns are as plentiful as wild berries? My suspension of disbelief does have boundaries, but this show seems to erase those goofy flaws in disbelief waving.

Just buy and watch it, and is still fun.

I've been teetering on quality of the show since the end of season 6. Season 8 feels to me like the writers have simply given up on any semblance of plot aside from Rick being an ultimate survivor. I'm not sure I'll be shelling out $45 to Amazon for Season 9 when it returns. I'll likely just wait for it to hit Netflix or quit watching altogether.

Too often in the Walking Dead series, Rick will make dumb, brash decisions that put his whole camp in jeopardy, so in that sense, it's tough to root for him and feel he's a smart leader. He does it time after time, but in a land where there are few options for survival, I can understand it. Forgiving his ill decision making, he has become a ruthless leader against those who stand against him, and a person without mercy. But his son, who undergoes a change in perspective, tries to influence his father to see things in a more peaceful light. This season features so much gunfire and machine gun action, that one has to wonder why they're wasting so much ammo, firing it ceaselessly into the side of other vehicles, rarely hitting their targets hiding behind. That aside, the series continues to offer lots of gruesome zombie herds, but also heartfelt moments in the final episodes that remind me why I started watching the series to begin with. In that way, season 8 is one of the better seasons in this long running epic zombie series.

I have loved Walking Dead since it first aired. I loved the seasons even as a few others were trashing it, and with this season, it is the first time I am disappointed. The story line was okay enough but it was bad directing or editing or a combination because I found it frustrating when it would show someone hiding behind boxes on the floor and 3 seconds later as the bad guys came around the corner and barely missed the person who was hiding, voila, the shots are coming from the ceiling. There was a lot of this choppy type of filming and it was distracting.

The story line could have been somewhat better in places but I am surprised the seasons have gone on this long and what else is there to say. There are an endless number of bad people in the world - just look at the news. It gets to the point I turn the TV and right before it comes on I say "wonder what blew up today?"

I realized there is not much thrill anymore with this series for me. I have not gone out to see if there will be another season. It sort of left off where it could go either way - IMO.

I won't be waiting up for it but if the ratings are good, I might buy the DVD.

major let down and don't want to be beat over the head with moralism. Its a zombie show. Heads should roll especially maniacal characters that would have been dispatched without a second thought in the earlier seasons. Writers have run out of ideals. Last viewing season for me. Don't care about the characters anymore. Especially Rick

Not much to say other than this season smells of absolute road apple snacks mashed into 10 day worn socks in August. I'm not sure what's worse- the fact it took me 9 episodes to finally give up on this dumpster fire or that Negans, "Neganisms" continue to annoy me even when he's not featured in an episode. I'm not a big fan of the character they just killed off in the latest episode so it really doesn't matter to me one way or the other but the representation of youth in a survival group is the embodiment of hope and something to fight and live for. Take away the youth, you take away the reason for survival. Thus, you have seen the last of this show save for a short list of revenge fueled episodes that tie into the crossover. After that, its done. Guaranteed. Finally, the immortal Rick Grimes will perish not at the hand of flesh eating walkers but by the pen of the sophomoric writers.