Sunday, November 19, 2017

The Walking Dead's Pitiful Attempts at Moral Ambiguity


"Quiet, Rick. If we pretend we're a clever show, maybe they'll all believe it!"

Let's just get right to the point. The Walking Dead is not a clever show, as much as it tries to be. Although avenues from which to mock this show abound, I'd like to focus on just the one, for the purpose of this post: the incessant, trite attempts at moral ambiguity. To do this, all we really have to do is ask ourselves the same question, at pretty much every moral dilemma the show presents. That being... "are both sides really the same?"