<em>The Walking Dead</em> Staggers On for Another Year
In its eighth season, the show is finally moving to take down its tiresome super-villain—but it might be too little, too late.
Much like the beleaguered, heavy-lidded, gray-bearded Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), has an enemy to defeat this season. For Rick, it’s been pretty obvious for the past year and a half who his nemesis is: Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), the baseball bat-wielding psychopath who has laid bloody waste to the show’s ensemble and in the process. But the series itself has to overcome viewer apathy, and the general ratings entropy that it dodged for so long while it was one of the most-watched programs on TV. Last season, as actually saw its for the first time.
