The Walking Dead: 10 Things Season 7 Got Horribly Wrong

5. Bleak Brutality

With this becoming Negan's world, things took a much darker turn on The Walking Dead. The season premiere was an hour of sadism, and the following seven episodes didn't let up too much either.

Of course, brutality is nothing new to the show, and there's nothing wrong with it having characters in peril and some good ol' gore and violence.

Over the course of those first eight episodes, however, the show went way beyond that point. After killing Abraham and Glenn it was all about breaking Rick and showing Negan was in charge, something it beat us over the head with episode after episode after bleak, depressing episode. We'd long got the point, but it just kept on going, to the stage where there was little fun to be had in watching the show, because it was just a miserable experience.

Of course The Walking Dead isn't a comedy, there's going to be darkness, but there does need to be some sort of balance. Admittedly the tone did pick up in the second half, but by that point a lot of damage had already been done.