The movie wasn't exactly terrible in spite of its imperfections. As bad as you can be at movies and films in general, The Walking Dead isn't awful by any stretch of the imagination. There were times where it felt like I was watching an actual television show rather than a horror film. When Carol wasn't stuck in her grave (which wasn't hard to believe considering how gruesome she looked), she wasn't boring or inconsistent in her choices. What wasn't horrible about The Walking Dead was that it tried