10 Things Everyone Always Gets Wrong About The Walking Dead

8. "It's One Plot Repeated Over And Over Again"

One of the biggest complaints about The Walking Dead, especially in the earlier seasons, was that the show pretty much only had one plot point it kept repeating over and over again. Rick and the rest of the survivors would find somewhere to call home, stay for about a season, and then be forced back out on the road by walkers/other survivors/eye-patch wearing dictators with tanks.

While yeah, that broad look at the structure of the first few seasons is sort of applicable, it ignores all of the unique stories that were told under this framework. The fall of the farm is completely different to the fall of the prison for instance, and the fourth season, as well as the majority of the fifth, saw the survivors constantly on the move from place to place, with the hostile wilderness being far more threatening than any villains they come across.

Likewise, although that rinse-and-repeat structure might accurately describe the first couple of years, the story hasn't been that way for a long time. In fact, Rick has had a pretty steady home for a while now, and the show's whole dynamic has shifted from being about surviving to thriving, as the world has opened up and the scant few good people left attempt to rebuild something resembling civilisation.