Review of Service

Were you not convinced enough by the brutal season premiere that Negan has total control over Rick's group? The writers clearly don't think people understood because they feel the need to hammer home the point. Virtually the entire length of this episode is taken up by Negan's men taking what they like from Rick's group, humiliating them and of course Negan speaking way too much. This episode goes exactly as anyone would've expected. And there's no tension because there can only be one outcome: Negan doing whatever the hell he wants. The Walking Dead's writers have seemingly forgotten what made the show so good in the first place: the tension, the characters, the gore...

The characters here are all really boring as they act exactly how you'd expect. Rick has accepted the group's fate, Carl tries to fight back at first but gives in in the end, Father Gabriel tries to make this look like God's plan or whatever... All of this is so predictable, including the sequence in which Negan demands the two guns.

Negan's actor plays the role very well but the script places so much emphasis on Negan it gets annoying and repetitive. There are so many shots of him grinning and saying whatever he finds amusing. This was already old in the season premiere, let alone now.

So this episode has gone exactly how I expected, that is, a pointless waste of time. This season is so bad...