This season has been tedious to watch. The story has lost all real meaning and feels like filler material trying to milk 1 more year of revenue from the cash cow. The characters are repeatedly put in the same life or death situations having to make the same hard choices as they have for the past 7 years. Hearing them whine constantly about how someone should go on without the other then they miraculously get saved just to hear them go through the same whiney speech every 10 minutes gets old really fast.
The show is overly focused on Morgan's daughter, a small 8 year old child who adults seem to take direction from in life or death settings, and possesses wisdom and character not displayed by most adults, despite their age and being raised in a society of children.
Halfway through the season now I wish all the characters would die and the show would end, im purely continuing to watch because ive already watched 7 seasons and I only have a little more to go before its over.
The acting, sets and costumes all remain top notch, and the sole reason I dont rate this lower, but the writing and possibly directing make this a truly painful experience. Perhaps this is actually some genius plan to make the viewer feel as much pain as the on screen characters getting eaten alive by walkers, if so this season is a masterful success.