# The Walking Dead - Does it get any better? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 11, 2013, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-does-it-get-any-better/649924 "2013-02-11T00:41:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-does-it-get-any-better/649924/1 "2013-02-11T00:41:52Z")
I watched season 1 of the walking dead a few years ago with some friends. It seemed pretty good at the time, but we were mostly drinking beer and bullshitting and so our standards were not that high. I have been watching Season 2 on Netflix. I am up to episode 4. So far, this season is boring and tedious. I am watching a bunch of stupid, dirty, tired, whiny people talking slowly in southern accents, looking sad, complaining, sighing, sweating, and occasionally doing completely boneheaded things to advance the “plot”. There are occasionally zombies, but they’re not especially threatening, and it really isn’t all that entertaining to watch a bunch of hicks decide “How should we kill this zombie we found?” for the fifth time. Does it get any better than this? ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-does-it-get-any-better/649924/2 "2013-02-11T00:45:36Z")
Season two was awful, but I’ve really enjoyed season three. It’s greatly improved in many ways. ---
**Author:** ![Jungian\_Camisole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@Jungian\_Camisole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-does-it-get-any-better/649924/3 "2013-02-11T01:23:36Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Season two was awful, but I’ve really enjoyed season three. It’s greatly improved in many ways. I concur with **Bob Ducca**. Season two was pretty much a wash until the last two or three episodes. Season three, however, has been very good. Andrea still needs to become Fancy Feast for the walkers, though. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-does-it-get-any-better/649924/4 "2013-02-11T02:06:28Z")
> [@Absolute](#): > > Does it get any better than this? I’d say no. I gave up on the show during season two and friends have suggested, as here, that season three got better. Having dipped my toe, I disagree, and I haven’t bothered since. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-does-it-get-any-better/649924/5 "2013-02-11T02:27:28Z")
I vote no as well. I watched through most of the third season before giving up on it. It doesn’t get any better. ---
**Author:** ![Latimera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/latimera/32/497_2.png) [@Latimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latimera)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-does-it-get-any-better/649924/6 "2013-02-11T02:51:33Z")
As far as I’m concerned, season two was slow, but still good. Season 3 has been great! ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-does-it-get-any-better/649924/7 "2013-02-11T02:52:21Z")
I’m thinking this show aint for you. I wathced season one and two in the span of two or three days because I loved it so much. Although, I do remember yelling at the TV “YOU GUYS ARE FUCKING IDIOTS!!” through a large portion of season two. ---
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-does-it-get-any-better/649924/8 "2013-02-11T03:19:34Z")
I have been watching episode 5 while reading other posts on the SDMB. So far, the most interesting thing that’s happened is the big stupid obnoxious hick fell off his horse, and had a vision of his big stupid obnoxious hick brother. Then a few zombies showed up, and he killed the zombies. They might as well have been rabid raccoons for all the threat they posed. Back at the farm, it is a bunch of stupid, miserable, dirty, sweaty people being unhappy at each other in various ways that manage to consume a lot of time without advancing the plot one fucking inch. EDIT: Oh great, big stupid obnoxious hick got shot. Not bad enough to kill the big stupid obnoxious hick, but likely enough to guarantee the next 10 minutes consists of everyone whining about how the stupid woman should not have shot him. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-does-it-get-any-better/649924/9 "2013-02-11T04:49:55Z")
I gave up and never watched the second half of Season 2. But I picked it up again for Season 3, with the promise of it being much improved. But I am now going to give up on it again. 1. I’ve never been a fan of Zombie movies in the first place, so that side of things doesn’t satiate me in any way. 2. There have been a hell of a lot of post-apocalyptic shows in the last few years, and they’re getting a bit samey. 3. There are no likeable characters; they’re all miserable, stupid, or megalomaniacal. In fact most of TV has gotten this way lately, where in order to make an interesting character they’ve made them as ambiguously edgy and dark, and consequently as irritating, as possible. I like fun cheerful and charismatic characters, not miserable killers and angry drug addicts. So I will pass on the show from now onward and find something a bit more upbeat to entertain me. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-does-it-get-any-better/649924/10 "2013-02-11T14:33:58Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > I wathced season one and two in the span of two or three days because I loved it so much. That might partially explain why you loved it so much and most of the rest of us didn’t like season 2. For you, they were standing around the farm for two or so days. For me, they were standing around the farm for _four months_. It was brutal. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-does-it-get-any-better/649924/11 "2013-02-11T14:41:31Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > I wathced season one and two in the span of two or three days because I loved it so much. > > Although, I do remember yelling at the TV “YOU GUYS ARE FUCKING IDIOTS!!” through a large portion of season two. I DVRed the marathon this weekend and have gone through season one and half of season two. I think the zombie aspect is very well done. They look good, for zombies, and it’s interesting to see the different ways characters react to they way the world has changed. But yeah, I have yelled “YOU GUYS ARE FUCKING IDIOTS!!” about once per episode along with a few “DON’T GO IN THEREs!” and some sarcastic “Let’s split ups.” Far to many poor decisions and too much handwringing. I’m hoping later seasons will follow a more rational group of people or natural selection will kill off the idiots. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-does-it-get-any-better/649924/12 "2013-02-11T14:47:37Z")
> [@Absolute](#): > > a bunch of stupid, dirty, tired, whiny people talking slowly in southern accents, Finally, a tv show where I can understand what people are saying! 🙂 It gets better after season two, but if you were that put out, you probably will not like the rest of it. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-does-it-get-any-better/649924/13 "2013-02-11T15:23:13Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > 1. There are no likeable characters; they’re all miserable, stupid, or megalomaniacal. Have you met my friend, Daryl? He is none of those things. He’s clearly the most competent of the group, he probably doesn’t need them to survive, but he knows they need him, so he sticks around. He’s not an asshole, could clearly use force to be “the new Rick,” but doesn’t because it’s not his thing. Really, the worst thing you could say about him is his brother was an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-does-it-get-any-better/649924/14 "2013-02-11T15:25:59Z")
WD… a zombie show that has everything except _braaaaaaaiiiiiinnnnssssss_. (Has the z-word ever been spoken in the show?) ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-does-it-get-any-better/649924/15 "2013-02-11T15:27:20Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > Really, the worst thing you could say about him is his brother was an asshole. Connor wasn’t an asshole. Oh, wait, wrong boondocks. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-does-it-get-any-better/649924/16 "2013-02-11T16:25:05Z")
> [@NitroPress](#): > > (Has the z-word ever been spoken in the show?) No. Like a lot of zombie fiction, it exists in a world that does not have any zombie fiction. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-does-it-get-any-better/649924/17 "2013-02-11T16:29:54Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > No. Like a lot of zombie fiction, it exists in a world that does not have any zombie fiction. ETA: But the concept of zombies predates Romero et al. Seems like someone would think of African/voudon zombieism… Has anyone compiled a complete list of non-z words used? Walkers… damn, every other term just flew out of my head. I must be coming down with a solanum virus. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-does-it-get-any-better/649924/18 "2013-02-11T17:39:13Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > There have been a hell of a lot of post-apocalyptic shows in the last few years, and they’re getting a bit samey. Case in point, “a veterinarian can substitute as a human doctor during times of crisis!” reveal that was also used in The Stand. ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-does-it-get-any-better/649924/19 "2013-02-11T20:56:16Z")
The advice I got was. . . as suggested above. . . watch the first few episodes on season 2, then move on to season 3. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-does-it-get-any-better/649924/20 "2013-02-11T21:30:08Z")
> [@NitroPress](#): > > Has anyone compiled a complete list of non-z words used? I think there’s walkers, biters, blockers, bashers, diggers and climbers. Those last ones might be lemmings, though. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-does-it-get-any-better/649924.md?page=2)