Around this time last year, my fiancés son would tell us time and time again that we needed to watch The Walking Dead. It was one of his favorite shows and he swore we’d love it.

Now, I had an idea of what the show was about. Honestly, the whole zombie thing wasn’t really my cup of tea. But, I had heard that it was an addictive show and the storyline was good. So, after much praising about it, we decided to start it up.

My fiancé and I became quite enthralled in it. We zipped through the first couple of seasons, spending many nights binge watching episodes. I wasn’t really a fan of the zombie aspect and the violence that involved killing them. It wasn’t that it made me squeamish or anything, but like I said, it just wasn’t my thing.

People I had talked to were right. The story was pretty intriguing. I often wondered what had caused all of this to happen. I grew fond of many of the characters. I actually liked that they killed off main characters. That made it more “realistic” to me. It made it exciting.

With all shows, there are slow periods where the story sort of lags. But, you stick with it. We did. A few months ago, my fiancé and I finished all of the seasons that were on Netflix. We were eager to see the start of season seven (obviously season six ended on a cliff-hanger). But, we knew we had to wait it out.

It wasn’t too long after that, season seven was released to Netflix. We started watching it. To be honest, we only got a few episodes in. My fiancé and I were both kind of in the same boat. We were kind of over it.

The more I thought about it, the more I realized that it was the same story repeating over and over again with a different “villain.” The group you came to know and love crossed paths with an evil group of people and they fought. It all started to get mundane.

Not only that, but the show seemed to lose sight about finding a reason why all of this was happening. That was part of the best mystery for me. There were many times throughout the series where you could feel them getting close to an answer. But, in the later seasons, it’s almost as though they just abandoned the why behind it all.

Finally, the show just seemed to be getting really violent. I don’t mind that so much here and there, but with everything that’s going on in the world right now, I could use a little pause on the violence. It seems as though the real world is scary enough as it is. I’d rather enjoy a show that allows me to escape some of those same themes.

Needless to say, I don’t think my fiancé and I will be too keen on getting started with the show again. Sure, I wonder what’s going to happen. But I can only keep up with a show for so long. I’d rather spend my time doing something more enjoyable!