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I wish I hadn’t enthusiastically recommended this show to so many people after viewing the first few excellent episodes, because the past couple of episodes have been pretty abysmal. In addition to the usual horror trope of people doing insanely stupid things at the worst possible moment (such as a cop who has the Most Important Information on the face of the Earth deciding to stop along his quest to deliver it to the People In Charge, try to help every random stranger in need), the writers have also decided to focus HEAVILY on the high school romance angle. Even if I ever cared about who likes who and about someone who didn’t realize someone else close to them “likes” them like them, now is NOT the time to try to focus on teenage love. The other negatives are starting to add up for me as well, the main one being people standing around staring at the chaos in awe, when instead they should be running for their lives. There’s also the “mad scientist” who knew what he was doing but didn’t care about the consequences, the hero first responder who’s gonna journey through Hell and risk life and limb to save his kid (obviously Dwayne Johnson or Liam Neeson will play this role in the Hollywood adaptation), and general political ineptitude… OK, that part I can believe.

What started out as something refreshing and new-ish, a show that had a humorous self-awareness about Accepted Zombie Truths, has turned into another trope-abusing yawnfest that I’m mainly continuing to watch because of sunken costs. I’ve already invested this much time, might as well see how it ends.

Started out an 8/10, the last couple of episodes have dropped it to a 5/10, maybe even a 4/10. I dunno what the future may bring, but it’s hard to redeem these flaws.