10 Reasons People Stopped Watching The Walking Dead

10. Too Gruesome

Okay, The Walking Dead is all about rotting corpses rising from their graves to chow down on the living, so of course we expect violence and gore, but the show's recent events went a little too far for many viewers.

Ardent comic readers will have known that the Glenn death scene was on the way, but few predicted that the showrunners would actually go full-on in their recreation of the comic's hideous image in which poor Glenn's skull is completely caved in. Negan was involved in more gruesome scenes in later episodes, torturing various people and even using an iron to burn one of his follower's faces.

The showrunners claimed they'd be toning down the violence in the wake of a wave of criticism, but the shocking manner of Glenn's death was one step too far for many TWD fans, with many claiming to have felt physically sick at the brutality on screen. In fact, the version shown in the U.K. had to be edited to remove some of the goriest shots. Even with the edit, some viewers called up Ofcom to lodge official complaints, while many others took to social media to share their disgust.