Unfortunately, try as they might, they can't seem to get it right enough times to make this show better. On the contrary, it seems to be inevitably sliding downward.
Season six's first half was episode after episode of boredom. The group having been split up by the villainous Virginia, each episode dealt with only one or two characters at a time, but with no rich stories to fill the airtime, I was not enthused.
The second half seemed to be finally moving the action forward, but just when I started hoping that they were getting things right, they went and blew it with the clearest example of jumping the shark I've ever seen.
Skip the next two paragraphs if you don't want a major spoiler.
If you don't care, here we go: a new villain, who seemed just the right amount of crazy to actually come across as interesting, planned to detonate several nuclear warheads in order to allow the survivors to start over again, and build a new and better civilization (what that would look like, we're not told or shown exactly).
I mean, I'm sorry, but when you blow up nukes, it's game over. Everything is wiped out and the area becomes unlivable for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Everybody knows that. If you don't die in the initial blast, then you're doomed to fairly soon die from radiation poisoning. And yet, this isn't supposed to be the end, given that a new season has been greenlit already. Are we just gonna have to watch the characters slowly get weird and ugly cancerous growths and die?
As the years went on, I started liking the character of Morgan less and less because of his inconceivable ideas and philosophy (this from his days on The Walking Dead). When they moved him to this show and killed off the main character to elevate him, a character who was really good and well rounded, I mourned the decision.
This season finale's cliffhanger veered so heavily into the ridiculous that I'm starting to seriously consider dropping it altogether.
Grade - Season 6: 3
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