Benjen Rhee is down there somewhere. I think.

Spoilers ahead.

Does anyone else think this season of The Walking Dead is its worst so far?

Not even counting last season, the show has now spent a third of this one showing how mentally and physically unprepared the Alexandrians are in dealing with the current state of society—yeah, they’re sheltered; we get it already. Rick’s plan to herd tens of thousands of zombies away from the community was a terrible idea with too much room for disaster (why not just throw incendiary devices down into the quarry where the zombies were still contained?) The Wolves, the requisite human villains, are not as interesting as the Ws scrawled on their foreheads. They don’t even have guns! Rick’s group does, and you know what they say about bringing a knife to a gunfight. Frankly, Rick’s group is potentially deadlier than the Wolves, which doesn’t make for a terribly compelling storyline.

And then there’s Glenn.

Glenn, Glenn, Glenn. (I just sighed, by the way.)

Never mind that it would suck thoroughly if one of the few remaining characters from Season 1, Episode 2 dies, the story of his fate could become the equivalent of Game of Thrones’s weak and unrewarding search for Benjen Stark. If we have to go through five more episodes wondering if Glenn’s dead or alive I’m going to smash a zombie head with my Season 1 blu-ray.

I have faith in the show runners, however. They haven’t made a bad season yet and there’s no reason to think they’ll start now, considering the source material—the comic books—is way ahead of the show and still highly rated. I’ve invested so much into this show that even though I’ve been pretty disappointed with this season so far, I will stick with this to the hopefully not too bitter end.