I get that that we're dealing with a serious drama here and not a comedy special but earlier on in its run The Walking Dead showed that it didn't all have to be doom and gloom, so why shouldn't there be a laugh or two now? Other great drama series like The Sopranos have shown that you can have plenty of laughs without getting silly; indeed, it's this roller-coaster between peaks of intensely morally-reprehensible actions and troughs of lighthearted banter which made The Sopranos a classic. There's no reason why The Walking Dead shouldn't have a little bit of humour. However, in recent times the laughs have become few and far between with once-comical characters no longer making us chuckle. Glenn, who used to be extremely (unintentionally) funny is now constantly gloomy, despite being loved-up. Carol, who had a biting dry wit, got unceremoniously dumped on the road side (though I read we may be seeing her again real soon). Milton, whose nerdy charm got many a laugh out of me, now lies stabbed to death by Andrea's pliers in some deserted room in Woodbury.
Hailing from South East London, Sam Heard is an aspiring writer and recent graduate from the University of Warwick. Sam's favourite things include energy drinks, late nights spent watching the UFC with his girlfriend and annihilating his friends at FIFA.