May Kay

This was the very first DVD ever that we had to return back. As TWD fans, watching this become physically unbearable. We tried, religiously, push through the first season ( like you push through heavy weights at gym). But we failed. It supposed to be focused on alternative reality, yet far too much repetitive breaking continuous flashbacks existed from the start, that were unnessesary and did not add anything to the plot. It got so confusing as to wether or not the program is flashback extra or are we still in zombie apocalypse? Plus no twists, turns, surprises. Overused character emotion-facetime to flesh out otherwize empty episodes become too painful to watch. Do l need to, every time, when l sit down, start to talk about some emotional puzzle l have? No. Its zombie-time, so in survival mode, last thing l think to talk about is my grandmother or how the sky looked like when l was 6 and discuss this like....5 minutes? All too often episodes which are meant to be in 10 year old zombie apocalyps, end with viewer seeing no more than 1 hand worth of zombies ( literally episoode 6 having 2 zombies, season 7 had 4 zombies) All this happening in between ultra boring flashbacks and emo-chats. Basically you have 1 minute of zombie action and 20 minutes pointless repetitive history rewind...throughout the episodes. It almost wanted the audience to forget the main purpose of the story, which was search for Iris and Hope's dad, because layer after layer of mentally taxing side emo-chats just did exactly that. Majority of characters that were the main focus of the program were banal and uninteresting. Titular characters could not even wear wigs properly. It could have been wonderful coming of age post apocalyptic story, yet its insult even to teenagers because teenagers these days are wayyyy more capable and street smart than these. We do believe though, that the very (unexperienced) writers were mainly to blame, because if the story is badly written, it is badly written. Whilst watching this, we were wondering, if the production team were given a low budget to start with, which resulted then with 1) minimal amount zombies 2) low cost actors, and 3) low cost actors doing endless mentally tireing chats to fill in running time. Did any of the afterproduction team members not feel any cringe, or need to say something? Did noone in AMC team had any -reality check feedback- to give within the team, of how off chart this production is going. If none of these happened, we were just wondering, were they really collectively so happy of how well done the job was? (Those of who have bought it and failed returning in time, make 3.5h one disc into 1h by skipping )