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@Jon-PokerVIP. This show is dramatically uneven. Some episodes are absolutely great, some are almost cringeworthy. I feel like this show is at its greatest when it's closely following the source material (graphic novel) and at its worst when it doesn't. Unfortunately, for new viewers, they deviate a lot from the comic book which makes the show as a whole mediocre. Fortunately, for the old viewers, it looks like they are going back to the roots. At this point, I'm hooked and I have no choice but to stick with "The Walking Dead" especially since I love Jeffrey Dean Morgan and he's going to play the next big bad, but if I had to make the choice again I'd probably pick some other show over TWD.
And yeah the last episode was good, but it's very easy to confuse the intensity with quality. I'm glad that the creators decided to follow the comic book closely, but I still can't shake off the feeling that the show is very incoherent and needlessly pompous church dialogue reminded me of that even if this great episode. I think this is actually my main gripe, dialogue is atrocious at times, it's so often grandiloquent (I'm using a ten dollar word just like TWD writers would

) and therefore quickly loses the ability to actually convey anything. You can't have the comic book equivalent of "We are the walking dead" quote in every other episode. It just can't work. Let's hope that will change.