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Is The Walking Dead a good show to start watching?

Posted on 9/22/23 at 2:14 pm
Posted by SelaTiger
Member since Aug 2016
21287 posts
Posted on 9/22/23 at 2:14 pm
I don’t believe I have ever seen a single episode. But I am thinking about starting at season 1 and seeing if it’s any good.
Posted by BlackAdam
Member since Jan 2016
7052 posts
Posted on 9/22/23 at 2:21 pm to
To start watching... yes, but it sucks to finish watching. It became a chore.
Posted by Split2874
Mandeville
Member since Jul 2012
3249 posts
Posted on 9/22/23 at 2:21 pm to
Yes it a good to start watching. Figuring out when to stop will be the problem.

Season 1 is awesome

Posted by The Quiet One
Former United States
Member since Oct 2013
12140 posts
Posted on 9/22/23 at 2:22 pm to
S1-4...maybe S5. Then pretend it got canceled.
Posted by TigerinATL
Member since Feb 2005
62446 posts
Posted on 9/22/23 at 2:22 pm to
It was one of the top shows on TV the first several seasons. Based on the popularity of the threads on this board I'd say most of us checked out during seasons 6 and 7. I don't regret watching it and I also don't regret not knowing what happened after I stopped.
Posted by h0bnail
Member since Sep 2009
7628 posts
Posted on 9/22/23 at 2:23 pm to
If you get to the tiger, you've gone too far.
This post was edited on 9/22/23 at 2:25 pm
Posted by imjustafatkid
Alabama
Member since Dec 2011
62896 posts
Posted on 9/22/23 at 2:24 pm to
At the very least, the first 4 seasons are good to great. After that, it starts to gradually go downhill.
Posted by CocomoLSU
Inside your dome.
Member since Feb 2004
155569 posts
Posted on 9/22/23 at 2:32 pm to
The first five or six seasons are top notch.
Posted by caro81
Member since Jul 2017
6050 posts
Posted on 9/22/23 at 3:10 pm to
as others have said up to and through 6 is pretty damn good tv.

a character get introduced at end of 6 and if you want to see that through it goes to season 8. you might want to be prepared to skip anything not directly relating to that main line though. stop after that for sure. its all garbage after that. i watched it all because something wrong with me.
This post was edited on 9/22/23 at 3:12 pm
Posted by Bert Macklin FBI
Quantico
Member since May 2013
11783 posts
Posted on 9/22/23 at 4:10 pm to
its a great show to start watching.

Doesn't stay that way lol
Posted by sledgehammer
SWLA
Member since Oct 2020
6793 posts
Posted on 9/22/23 at 4:14 pm to
Yes, but if you have an OCD about finishing things like me you’ll end up wasting days of your time watching until the end.
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
13643 posts
Posted on 9/22/23 at 4:33 pm to
The writer's strike probably won't be over by the time OP gets through the last season.

OP, do NOT watch the spin off, "Fear the Walking Dead." Do not.
Posted by EthanHunt007
Member since Aug 2023
1171 posts
Posted on 9/22/23 at 5:06 pm to
Seasons one through three are great. But it goes to shite in season four and remains on a steady decline until it ends. Seasons 4 and beyond are filled with the laziest writing imaginable and the episodes are so goddamn boring, slow and predictable. You spend the entire episode waiting on something interesting to happen but it never does. Literally the only good episodes after season 3 are almost always the premiere, mid-season finale and the season finale. The rest just feel like boring filler episodes that drag on and on and on.

For frick's sake, they spend an entire episode in a later season looking for a light bulb in a movie theater. That's the whole episode.

It's like they have an idea for the beginning and end but don't know how to get you from point A to point B.

Keep in mind they fired Frank Darabont (an academy award winner) and in season 4, handed the show over to a hack who was mostly known for writing Saturday morning cartoons.
This post was edited on 9/22/23 at 5:21 pm
Posted by Roll Tide Ravens
Birmingham, AL
Member since Nov 2015
51062 posts
Posted on 9/22/23 at 6:50 pm to
Echoing what others said. The first four or five seasons or so are fantastic. After that, the decline begins.
This post was edited on 9/22/23 at 6:51 pm
Posted by Ziippy
Member since Aug 2023
1391 posts
Posted on 9/22/23 at 7:00 pm to
First few seasons are really good.
Posted by JimMorrison
The Peninsula
Member since May 2012
20747 posts
Posted on 9/23/23 at 6:28 am to
season 1 is GOAT tier show. season 2 is really good.

then stop watching because it turns into a soap opera and sucks arse.
Posted by udtiger
Over your left shoulder
Member since Nov 2006
112751 posts
Posted on 9/23/23 at 6:31 am to
Yes, for the first few seasons.

Then it goes off the rails
Posted by SquatchDawg
Cohutta Wilderness
Member since Sep 2012
19216 posts
Posted on 9/23/23 at 7:38 am to
The first few seasons are great. After that it drops significantly as you can only rehash the same “here are the new people that are going to kill us” storyline so many times. I think the end of the arc with the Governor is where I recommend to pull the cord.

Similar to Yellowstone with the “here are the new people that are going to steal our land” schtick.
This post was edited on 9/23/23 at 7:40 am
Posted by chinese58
NELA. after 30 years in Dallas.
Member since Jun 2004
33348 posts
Posted on 9/23/23 at 3:38 pm to
If you are frightened by zombies.
Posted by King George
Member since Dec 2013
6001 posts
Posted on 9/23/23 at 6:55 pm to
quote:

If you get to the tiger, you've gone too far.
This the best summary of TWD I’ve ever seen. Thank you, sir.
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