The tenth season of The Walking Dead, of which last Monday its 22nd chapter was broadcast, is a perfect example of the emphatic statement of Pepe Coira, creator of Iron: “I hate shows that squeeze an already squeezed lemon,” because the apocalyptic series for AMC based on the comics by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard, which is distributed internationally by Fox, does not just squeeze an already squeezed lemon, it pulverizes it. And the eleventh season has already been announced, without forgetting the spin-off series like Fear the Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: World Beyond or the three feature films planned by the production company.
Naturally, stretching a plot to this extreme has serious consequences, from viewer saturation to scriptwriters going crazy trying to keep the plot interesting. Anything goes. One of the last episodes, for example, took place almost entirely inside a freight train carriage. The one shown on Monday told the story of LucilleNegan’s terrible baseball bat, in short, delirium.
It was a huge worldwide success, released in 120 countries and with multimillion-dollar audiences that began a steady decline from the fifth season. The ninth was, for the moment, its lowest point and there is still no data on the tenth. The dilemma is quality or quantity and the producers of the walking dead are clear about it. But it is not always like that: Line of Dutythe excellent British series, is now in its sixth season, and it does so with the same quality as the first. The key, perhaps, lies in the fact that each of them presents a new case, their stories are autonomous, and do not produce the predictable boredom.
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