Review Tuesday: The Walking Dead: Season 10

 

 

THE WALKING DEAD

Season 10

Our group(s) of survivors deal with the Whisperers and getting on with life.

This season started in October of 2019!!! Running twenty two episodes, this as been the longest season of THE WALKING DEAD in every sense you can imagine, both in episodes and in the year and a half it took to run. What had happened was that they didn't finish shooting what was meant to be the season finale before the pandemic struck. So it took months to get that episode finished. With all that going on they announced that Season 11 would be the final season for TWD. However, they were working on additional episodes for season 10 and season 11 will also run with more episodes than usual. With that in mind, they needed to get to work on tying up loose ends on TWD, set the stage for the final season, but also prepare for all the spin-offs. Right now we already have TWD, FTWD, and The World Beyond. The trouble is, ALL of these shows have been poor facsimiles of the show that TWD started off to be, and created so much excitement. I'll get back to all that. 

Season 10 ran 22 episodes, and some of them were even super-0sized. The trouble is, the writers spent too much time embellishing the story, and steering far and wide from the source material. As a result  they have to come up with a bunch of filler to take up the space while they tried to close the gaps. Some of it was interesting, but most of it wasn't. The Whisperer story arc was so overdone and drawn out that by the end you didn't even care when the villains finally lost the war. 

As for the other stages being set, word has it that Michonne is supposed to end up with her own spin-off, and Carol and Darryl are supposed to have their own as well. They have said that Rick Grimes was supposed to come back in TWD movies, but there is no news on those projects.

After all the development and year of material, I am glad to see an end in sight. If  for no other reason than to finally finish flogging this dead horse, than so be it. I find myself watching the episodes NOT because I like the show or care about the characters, but more out of habit. The final story arc has commenced. I am just curious how they will pull this off unless Andrew Lincoln returns as Rick Grimes, otherwise I have no idea how they can make this reconcile with the source material. I hope season 11 is good because season 10 was mediocre at best.  

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