Posted on 03/25/2024 8:29:33 AM PDT by RedMonqey
Does anyone still watch this TV series or the various spinoffs it spawned?
I watched Season one of “Daryl Dixon”. Thought it was better than the original show. JMO.
It’s still on?
I’ve never seen it, but I have a couple of friends who were crazy about it. I’m not sure if they still watch it.
Like the zombies, it never dies.................
No!
Yeah I have watched some of them. The Daryl spinoff is fair but nothing stellar. The Rick and Michele spinoff has started and I have seen a few of them. Again they seem OK but a shadow of the original series ... but we’ll see what they do with that one.
The key to a good series IMO involves good characters, good writing and filming on location. Those qualities on the spinoffs are not quite at the level of the original series.
no but I really liked it when I did. I stopped during like the 6th or 7th season and couldn’t remember where to pick it back up so I never went back.
I finally gave up. I was stacking them on the DVR and not watching. Then I’d watch one or two. But they just didn’t interest me anymore. The well is dry.
I never watched it much at all.
I did however watch the Daryl Dixon series set in France, which I found quite entertaining.
Much like the Breaking Bad and Son’s of Anarchy series......once is enough. 👌
This show lost me when it insisted that so many woke types would survive a zombie apocalypse.
Zombies are more believable than wokesters surviving the zombies.
It’s just a soap opera now, with zombies.
Sometimes it seems like an afterthought- “Oh, we almost forgot a zombie kill for this episode...”
Darryl Dixon show was excellent.
The New York City show was fine. Stupid plot point, ham handed allusions to war-for-oil. But Maggie and Negan were excellent.
Those who live is C+. Zero chemistry between the two main actors. Weak plot. Worthwhile if you love the genre.
Now, The Gentleman, on Netflix is excellent, so far.
As is the Brothers Sun.
In Sci-Fi TV and movies, for some reason, when the system breaks down and it is back to a dog eat dog, might makes right, fight for everything you get, only the strong survive, world, women takeover.
Never watched it. But...
I was watching a true crime story yesterday. A young woman who was being stabbed somehow got hold of the knife and killed the attacker, including stabbing him in the eye. She said she learned how by watching The Walking Dead. “Get ‘em in the head.”
I gave up on it after the second season.
The problem for these shows is that they are too few and happen seemingly by random. Who knows when they are on? Their ads go on for months on end, so people lose track of when the shows are actually on. They also show 3 shows, then break for two months so they can leverage the viewership to show other shows instead, then maybe 4 more shows, then end for the ‘season’. The discontinuity is tiresome.
Not after the 3rd season.
My take is that WD suffered the typical fate of many action based series. The producers seem to think that every episode has to be more exciting than the last until finally, the plots have to get so stupid that nobody can suspend disbelief.
At some point you ask yourself, “Could the characters possibly be so stupid that they didn’t expect this?” When the answer becomes no, the series has hit its conclusion.
I saw the first two of the Darryl show and I forget what was stupid about the first one but I do remember the unexplainable but obvious MAGA guy with the Texas ball cap instead of a MAGA hat, and even a redneck accent who single handedly guarded and ran the French castle and who looted the town against the wishes of everyone else in the region, dominated the region militarily and killed whoever tried to take his castle and he did it all alone somehow until Darryl simply came into the vast castle and took the guy in an effort that your local female cop could have done by herself.
THANK YOU!!!!
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