The Walking Dead: 10 Things Season 7 Got Horribly Wrong

7. Singular Episodes

The show has given over entire episodes to one storyline before, such as with last year's deep dive into Morgan's character, Here's Not Here.

That proved that it can work, so long as you've got a character worth telling such a focused story about (and it helps having an actor as great as Lennie James in the role), but this year it used the singular episodes to terrible effect.

Just when it'd built up the fact that there were numerous communities, and had split up all if its main characters (Carol and Morgan at the Kingdom, Maggie at the Hilltop, Daryl at the Sanctuary, Rick and the rest at Alexandria), it decided to go through them one-by-one.

Rather than splitting episodes up and intercutting storylines, we had an episode focused on Carol, then Daryl and Dwight, then Alexandria, then Hilltop, and then freakin' Tara get her own entire episode and so on.

It continued in the second-half of the season too, even if other aspects improved. Even in the build-up to the finale, the show was still dragging its heels, mostly centring on just one location and a couple of characters, meaning storylines never converged in the way they needed to in order to setup the finale, nor provide the necessary excitement and suspense.