The Walking Dead Season 8.

Recently celebrating it's 100th episode at the start of the season, the season opened with a much smaller audience than season 7. Season 7 started with that gory violent, at times hard to watch opener. It spilt fans, many deserted the show although with over 17 million viewers it was a huge hit, this season episode 100 we saw around 11.5 million viewers.

There has been a lot of chatter about the shows relevance, does the show still hold the power it used to. Simple answer no.

The show is now looking stale, and like Fear the Walking Dead, the characters are very dull and unlikeable.

Without Glenn, with every humanly possible way to slay a zombie done and dusted we are running low on new ideas, Negan has also been absent from some of the season making for even less tension than last season. Unlike Shameless which I recently praised in it's eighth outing, The Walking Dead is taking it's show name a little seriously, it seems to be walking off into the dead, wastelands. Will it end on a high note or just fade into TV land.

Some shows should call it a day before it completely goes all Blindspot and jumps the shark, the one saviour for this series is it cuts it's season in half, after eight episodes (mid way) it will call it a day for 2017 on December 10. If it follows last seasons pattern it'll return mid February.

I liked the way the show used to show human nature, boldly and whilst experiencing a grave fate, now this show just jumps from season villain to villain, shelter to shelter and slay a few zombies on the way. It needs more substance, it needs relatable and relevant characters.

Rick Grimes pull your finger out, you need a strong second half of this season mate.