Thanks.
Ya. Don’t want to demean it. It is enjoyable to some and to us for a while.
We just got burned out. We’d still be watching it if my son had shown some interest. We lost it about the same time. Kind of ironic that it is emmensly popular now. Maybe because many viewers haven’t been watching it from the beginning like us and haven’t gotten weary of the plot yet.
I am not a writer but I can see what is happening. Shows start to fade when the writers run out of new ideas. They start doing things like killing off the main characters. That might be happening. Just my opinion,though.
They’ve been killing characters from the start, so it’s certainly not running out of idea. Especially because it’s based on a comic that’s been running for 10 years, and the writer of the comic is executive producer, any time the room runs low on ideas they’ve got the books to draw from, which they’re currently 7 years behind. Though they are actively trying not to completely replicate the books, they also don’t want to avoid good ideas (and characters).
It started off fairly popular, it just keep growing. The initial audience was zombie nerds, now it’s drawing fans of drama. Because it is just plain a good drama. That’s what AMC does, it’s amazing how similar all their shows are, even though on the surface you would think a zombie show would have no relationship to a western, a period piece in the 60s and a show about a drug dealer. In the end they really are all the same show.