The Walking Dead: Dead City (Didn't you ever think "Hey, you know what would be cool? Even more Walking dead!"? No?)

 

Literally my face during the entire first episode.

PR: I'm not gonna sit here and pretend to remember who this Mag or Meg or whatever is, I came here for Neggan, so let's just skip past the first couple scenes, including the one where she shrieks in the middle of a zombie-ridden city because she was frustrated or something. This Mig person finds Negan hiding in a pub from the literal Fallout 4 Minutemen, who show up after they're gone, trying to persuade us Negan is a cruel man that needs to be stopped, immediately after saying that they'll saw him in half, medieval style, in the main plaza, few moments before throwing the pub manager to the zombies for... what was it again? Solicitation? 

The two-man crew, that for all practical reasons it's just Negan, proceeded to steal a motorboat and go into the Dead City, which is just Manhattan.

 Apparently, things have changed a lot since the start of the series because I remember from season 1 of the walking dead that Ricky goes into Atlanta, a city one third of the size of Manhattan, and gets immediately swarmed by a gazillion zombies, only to escape in fear with China dude and the rest to the outskirts of the city and other mostly rural places, but here, they go straight in and have no more problem than they would in a regular small town, and they make a helluva lot more noice. Walking Dead logic, am I right? 

The Minutemen follow and prove to be a bunch of imbeciles, in particular their captain, who literally shot one of his own dudes in the head and had the other "watch the door" so that the fugitives would not escape onto... the literal zombie horde, which breaks down the door and kills that one other assistant too. There are a couple more scenes of Captain just walking around doing nothing, but they're so boring it's not even worth mentioning. 

We also get a couple scenes of the villain, which is also boring and unimaginative, literally just an old dude that apparently likes to torture people (though he doesn't do it on camera), and he's a bit senile. They make Negan say all sorts of stuff to inflate him like "yeah, he's a real crazy person, uncontrollable, I'm tame compared to him, etc," but this just adds to the disappointment at the discolor that the villain really is. 

At the end of the episode we get one mini-scene of Negan gutting some dude, which is the most thrilling thing that happened in the entire episode, and I know that he's doing all he can to carry this trash but the plot is so unimaginative and the pacing is so slow that you can't compensate it with one scene in, what? Forty minutes? It certainly felt like a lot more.