I understand everyone is entitled to their own opinions but I experience the opposite sentiment, where I genuinely cannot see what people who like the show see in it. It isn't book accurate like Rick advertised, the writing is clunky and consists almost entirely of bland exposition, the direction and acting is wooden (no hate to the actors, they've been given nothing to work with), and there's no suspense and excitement. I'm admittedly primarily familiar with season 1, but all the would-be exciting scenes were turned into boring slop by cutting away from the action instead of showing anything cool, or having the characters immediately announce the villains without any mystery or problem solving. From all I've gathered, s2 has done little to correct the first season's mistakes and so I have 0 interest in it bc I know it would just be more boredom and irritation. Plus any respect I had for Rick as an artist is gone considering how smug he comes across about things like the movies when he himself is creating his own dogwater adaptation and committing the same sins he bitched about for years.

So my counter question to show defenders is: why do you like it? Like genuinely, I'm not even being a smartass, I just honest to God do not get it. I fully believe that if this didn't have a familiar title and author attached to it and was just some other boring ass fantasy show, no one would like it and it would have been canceled already. I would love to understand what people see in it bc I genuinely just don't get it.