The Walking Dead: The Season’s Five Worst Decisions

Part of the baggage that comes with telling stories of survival horror is exploring and becoming invested in characters who are struggling to survive in dangerous, untenable situations…and acting like total morons while they do so.It’s that old joke, right? The plucky heroine in a slasher film always runs up the stairs from the bad guy, effectively trapping herself on the second floor.Every zombie movie seems to have at least one person who, exasperated with the group’s decisions, decides to go it on their own and dies almost immediately.Basically, in order to heighten the drama and make the consequences more dire for the characters (and so more compelling/exciting for the audience), characters in a show like AMC’s The Walking Dead have to do mind-numbingly stupid things that leave virtually every member of the audience at home yelling at the screen.