The Walking Dead: 6 Things "Crossed" Got Right (And 4 It Didn't)

3. Zombies Are Horrific Again

One of the weakest points of this season, meanwhile, is how nerfed the walkers have got. Everybody's kind of over zombies at this point, what with them reaching an even higher saturation point in popular culture than ever before, but you're making a TV show about zombies. Can't really shy away from that fact, can you? And yet The Walking Dead has continually moved away from the undead not only as the primary antagonists but as anything even approaching a threat, or horrific, or dangerous. They're annoying nuisances like mosquitoes, and just as easily dealt with. That's been the flip-side to the group's increasing confidence. Where previously they were overwhelmed with horror at what had happened to the world, now they calmly administer synchronised stabs to the horror's skulls. Crossed is the first time this season that the walkers have seemed like if not actual threats on their own but were actually horrific. The special effects have always been strong but this was the first time in a good long while they actually had the right, well, effect, with a nausea-inducing spilling of guts and deformities which served to make it all the more intense when that bad cop had gripped Daryl by the head and was trying to force feed him to one of the blighters.