This The Walking Dead Episode Is Deemed the Worst Ever by IMDb, Here's Why
Throughout The Walking Dead’s years-long run, only one episode managed to earn a pathetic 4.1 score on IMDb, and here’s why both fans and critics hated it.
Say what you will but The Walking Dead has had amazing storylines, despite the show's quality declining halfway through season 6. Even then, the series kept having great ratings, and after its finale, the audience is still on the lookout for more spin-offs — and the creators deliver, as we can see right now with Daryl Dixon.
However, we won’t pretend like the original series kept getting better by the season. The longer the show kept going, the more repetitive it became, and at one point, some episodes started feeling like straight-up fillers to kill time. Only one of them was so pointless that it earned the lowest IMDb rating ever, though.
The penultimate episode of the penultimate season, season 10’s Diverged, admittedly tried playing with the idea of being a slice-of-life in the zombie apocalypse and lost. The entire episode centered around Daryl and Carol who went their separate ways and…well, dealt with the everyday struggles of the apocalypse, but separately.
That’s it. That’s the concept.
Carol walks off with Dog, gives her worst to cooking a soup, and single-handedly takes out a whole bunch of zombies. Daryl travels alone and tries to fix his broken bike while also dealing with walkers, finally fixes the bike, and wanders off into the metaphorical sunset. Pretty much nothing else happens throughout the episode.
While some fans claim that Diverged shows how much Daryl and Carol mean to each other and how their lives turn into struggles when they’re separate, most viewers simply call this episode a complete waste of time, a filler, and “content for content’s sake.” Truly, Diverged does nothing to advance the plot; it just exists.
Diverged even led many fans to lower their expectations for the Daryl Dixon spin-off, but thankfully, they were wrong. So far, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is a brilliant addition to the TWD family, and this unfortunate episode was not a tell-tale of how the future projects of the franchise would turn out.
Source: IMDb