Walking Dead is worst writing ever. Some of that dialogue makes me want to puke.
Dingo's favorite shows:
1. CSI Miami
2. 2 and a half men
3. Army Wives
Dingo's favorite shows:
MI-5 (Kind of a UK version of 24)
Breaking Bad (if you want great dialogue, look no further)
Dexter (seriously, what mommy doesn't love this show?)
Justified
The League
Community
The list goes on.
Granted, I haven't watched the second season of Walking Dead. Season 1, however, peaked early on, in the scene where the father is in his window looking at his zombie wife through a rifle scope--powerful stuff. After that, it was chock full of bad lines and bad moments that rang false for me. I mean, sure, the idea of a zombie apocalypse is unreal, but if you're going to try to get me on board with your human characters, get me to imagine this is how a real person would react in this situation. You have to make them believeable and not give them stupid things to say that are what coverage readers call "on the nose."
Annoying moments in season 1:
When Rick went to find that half-zombie crawling through the park to mercifully put her out of her misery. It could have been a great scene if played with no dialogue, powerful and poignant. But then the writers had to scribble in that Rick shakes his head with sadness (like that character would do that) and mutter: "I'm so sorry this had to happen to you ..." Why don't you spell it out for us, clowns?
When Amy gets bitten by a zombie and dies and Andrea guards her body until she turns. That whole motif was so overracted and melodramatic.
When Lori finds out Rick is alive, after she's been sleeping with Shane all this time, she suddenly turns into a raging bitch at Shane. Jesus, what the hell did Shane do?
Another line that made me want to push the actor off the roof of the Atlanta building where it was delivered: "Well ... [dramatic pause] ... Officer Friendly ... [more dramatic pause] ... from just up the road ... [more dramatic pause and slow turn of the head to look at Rick] ... welcome to the big city." Who the eff talks like that?
When they get to the CDC (or whatever that place was where Noah Emmerich was holed up] and discover he has food and wine, there is that cliche-ridden dinner sequence where everyone is laughing ... and laughing ... and laughing ... oooooh, look how pleased we are to be eating, we're laughing. It was so forced and phony.
For the record, I'm not the only one who says this. A lot of critics have said the same thing.