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The Walking Dead: What Comes After (2018)
C'mon!? Really? REALLY!? That's just CHEAP. But you'll still watch it, you'll watch ANYTHING.
If you're reading this, I assume you probably saw it. If you haven't... maybe you shouldn't be reading this if you don't want to see spoilers? Then again, any fans of who still think this recycled POS is still "great" would probably do something that hopelessly DIM.
Anyhow... "Rick Dies!"... "His last episode!"... "No he doesn't, we LIED just to get you to watch it because anyone still watching this recycled crap will watch anything... idiots!"
NOTHING HAPPENS in this show any more. NOTHING. The plot doesn't progress (remember shows like Breaking Bad, Oz... the first several seasons of Dexter... shows with PLOTS and CHARACTERS and PLOT TWISTS?) They literally just go around in circles doing NOTHING the whole episode. They make crossing a bridge seem like a progression in the plot... but it's nothing more than the act of dragging out a tired show where nothing happens anymore.
And the level of political correctness on the show has just gotten down right sickening. They're not even subtle about their one sided political alignments anymore. I'm pretty sure Diane Feinstein is one of the writers now. They need to just get it over with and take over a community college campus and start handing out propaganda pamphlets -- you would still watch it.
I mean, how many times can you see Daryl shoot a Zombie in the head with an arrow before you get bored of it? If your answer is "NEVER!"... guess what? YOU ARE THE ZOMBIE.
Northern Exposure (1990)
Early '90s pseudo intellectual yuppie fantasy... FROM HELL
I remember seeing the pilot episode air for the first time back in 1990. It started out as the strongest show on TV. The setting and characters were fresh and outside of the box.
In a world before the internet where NOTHING existed on TV but cop shows, sitcoms and soap operas; Northern Exposure was like something from another planet. I think it was the very first network TV show that wasn't completely dumbed down to the level of a 5th grader.
It seemed clear to me that in the first season, the entire thing was still very experimental. I don't believe the writers, actors or anyone else knew exactly what direction they were going to go in or exactly where the show would end up. It started out fresh and exciting to watch.
Some time after the first season, they switched writers or directors or maybe decided EXACTLY where they were going with it... straight to your typical early '90s network drama.
Maybe it was just the time period? This show started at the end of the '80s (1990) and finished in the mid-'90s (1995)... two very different eras.
It got to a point where the entire thing became so contrived, predicable and politically correct, I couldn't stand it anymore. The plot-lines and characters got so ridiculous they could no longer suspend my disbelief. The entire thing I once loved, I now loathed.
When the "new and original" spin started to fade, it just desenegrated into typical network television. The characters ALL started doing things so "completely unpredictable" that it became COMPLETELY PREDICTABLE and totally out of touch with reality. NOBODY in Alaska talks, thinks or acts like anybody in this show... thank God. Shortly into the series, Alaska got completely swapped out with Manhatten. The set didn't change but everything else did.
The character who stood out to me the most was "DJ Chris". He went from an open minded, free thinking, down-to-Earth type, to a self- righteous mouth piece of all things PC. At times I swear he was reading his lines straight out of a '90s Socialogy textbook that he purchased at a community college book store.
All of the characters except for Joel started out as semi backward, small town "country folk". As the show progressed, they all became the pseudo intellectual yuppie know-it-all types you would find in Soho, Grenech Village or Berkley. Simple minded morons with great vocabulary and speaking skills... nothing more.
Looking back at it now, it's simply embarrassing how stereo typical and "canned" the cast was. Joel was your typical "New York Jew Doctor". Maurice was your typical "old rich Republican white guy". Magie was your typical "strong independent woman" and Chris was your typical "Full of BS Hippy Guru"... Rinse and repeat.
Pretentious dialouge and an Alaskan setting really fooled a lot of people into believing there was something original about Northern Exposure... there wasn't. It was basically a slightly less depressing, well worded rehash of "40 something".
Northern Exposure isn't completely useless though. It's a great view into the idealistic, out of touch with reality, fantasy land that the yuppies of the early '90s lived in... and still do.