10 Reasons Better Call Saul Is Better Than The Walking Dead

The script writers for The Walking Dead aren't afraid to treat their fans like chumps for their own amusement or to pull in the ratings. If done properly, Glenn's fake death in season 6 could have been a suspenseful angle, but instead it was just disrespectful to the fans. The same can be said for the season six finale.

Now obviously there is nothing wrong with a cliff-hanger, all shows will use them at some point or another to keep audiences coming back for more. But this one felt disingenuous, viewers were led to believe they would lose a major character that night, and they did, they just didn't know who it was. It was clearly a well orchestrated publicity stunt to attract record viewers for the next series premier, and it worked, but this episode then messed with the fans once more, hiding who the unlucky victim was for most of the episode, dragging it out far longer than necessary.

Of course, Better Call Saul has cliff-hangers too, but they don't lead us to ask "what happened?", instead we ask "what happens now?", a conclusion that allows for more speculation and imagination to be used by both the fans and the writers. The second season ended with Jimmy incriminating himself after being tricked by his brother, which obviously makes us want to tune in for the next season. But this feels less exploitative, the show has left us on a knife-edge, but we haven't been strung along with half-a-dozen lack-lustre episodes only to be given a juicy cliff-hanger so that we don't move on with our lives before the next season starts. Every episode has been gripping and left us wanting more, so we expect nothing less from the final episode of the season.