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Negan’s Unpredictability Is A Welcome Change For ‘The Walking Dead’
http://uproxx.com/tv/negan-unpredictability-walking-dead/

It's kinda odd to me. People have been begging for Negan for a few seasons now. And when they get what they ask for, embodied BRILLIANTLY by JDM, they wet their pants...oh, the show is too cruel, blah blah blah. Well, yeah...unless there are actual stakes what is the point? And yes...they are all over the place right now with characters going missing for weeks at a time...but who cares? They are building this story into something regardless of how clumsy you judge it to be. And...seven seasons in, it needed a change. Unless you all just want to watch the same crap time and time again. I am glad the ratings are slipping. It means the casual viewers are moving on to the next thing and this show can continue to take chances knowing that the more adventurous viewers will stick with it.
 


Cleaning up dvr, watching Geeking Out episodes. Fun...much like Comic Book Men. Good format, only 30 minutes...Grunberg and Kevin Smith are indulgent, but ok...kinda like Hardwick.
 
TWD is becoming a chore for me to watch because we've seen this before. Yeah, JDM is great.

But the fact that people go missing for weeks at a time is a problem. We are also spending time on Dwight (smoking with his wife(?) usually). He just needs to go away.

In the last Ep, we see Rick at the warning sign fence and then an hour later they show a bit more of the scene (to be shown next week). I blame poor editing. Another example was the redhead drives-up and gets out of a car and I'm like "who's this?" and then we see Michonne.

Face it, the only reason I can see that it was 1.5 hours was it was going against Westworld. They need to just stick to 1 hour shows... not 1:05, 1:08, or 1:30.
 
Stories About Falling ‘The Walking Dead’ Ratings Don’t Tell The Whole Story
http://uproxx.com/tv/falling-walking-dead-ratings/

Ratings for this season of The Walking Dead are down across the board. Granted, the season premiere was the second highest-rated episode of the series run, but the AMC drama has been in a free-fall ever since, or so many of us in the media would have you believe. It is true that overnight ratings for The Walking Dead have fallen from 17 million viewers a week to around 11 million viewers as of the season finale, before DVR viewership is accounted for. It is also true that ratings for The Walking Dead have fallen to levels on par with season four. What is not being said, however, were how monstrous ratings in season four were.

The narrative this season, however, is what’s wrong with The Walking Dead to cause such a huge drop in ratings. We’re all guilty of this. Some of us blame Negan. I blame the stand-alone episodes that take too much attention away from the characters we most want to see. Clearly, a unfavorable reviews from both critics and audiences have contributed to the ratings erosion this season.

But here’s the other story, arguably the bigger story: Ratings for The Walking Dead are fine. Despite the drop-off, they’re better than fine. They’re still gargantuan. We often mention that — despite falling ratings — The Walking Dead is still the highest-rated show on cable, but we may fail to impress upon readers just how dominant it remains.
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Kirsten Dunst to Headline AMC Dark Comedy from ‘The Lobster’ Director Yorgos Lanthimos
http://collider.com/kirsten-dunst-amc-comedy-yorgos-lanthimos/#on-becoming-a-god-in-central-florida

In the age of Peak TV, there are a lot of new projects that slip under the raydar or seem like another remake, retread, or revamp of what we’ve already seen. But the upside, is you get something like On Becoming a God in Central Florida. Which is the crazy ass title of a new series in development at AMC set to star Kirsten Dunst, who is coming off her career-best work in Fargo. Dogtooth and The Lobster helmer Yorgos Lanthimos is on board to direct so you know it’s going to be something usual and most likely, a bit unsettling.

Set in the 90s, the show will star Dunst as a woman on a quest to con her way to the top in pursuit of the American Dream. The series comes from George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures, Sony’s TriStar Television and AMC Studios.
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Image via FX

Per Deadline, here’s the synopsis of On Becoming a God in Central Florida Written by Robert Funke and Matt Lutsky based on a spec script they wrote.

On Becoming A God is a darkly comedic story about the cult of free enterprise and one woman’s relentless pursuit of the American Dream in the early ’90s. Recently widowed and left with nothing, minimum-wage Orlando water park employee Krystal Gill (Dunst) lies, schemes and cons her way up the ranks of Founders American Merchandise — the cultish, flag-waving, multibillion-dollar pyramid scheme that drove her to ruin in the first place.
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This has nothing to do with the show. It's off-topic, except for being called Humans. And being awesome.

 
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