Guy on 2p2 said it best when the show would be good if it was a zombie flick with bad drama, but it's a bad drama with zombies. I've even had some hard time figuring out why I hate it so much because like the deer scene is some of the worst shit in anything ever, yet I guess because it's apocalypse land I'm like whatever

My guess is that the show sucks because of producers. There's probably a lot of quarreling, half the hired writers don't know anything about zombies or survival stuff, yadda yadda. So they're incapable of doing anything other than making a cheesy drama because that's what you get when networks tackle new things because the bosses are all just lawyers and accountants who don't understand art and entertainment or anything outside conventional