Review by transientdreams

At the rate this, and other WD shows are raking in tens-of-millions, you would think SOMEONE would invest maybe a LITTLE bit more in decent writing talent. No, far less! 'The Walking Dead: Dead City' suffered the same fate, but not as badly. It just went nowhere. Not even in a complete circle. But, this last episode here of 'The Ones Who Live' was a doozy of lazy, overly-sentimental, and sappy, crappy garbage writing! Whomever green-lighted this script must have never read a decent thriller in their lives! Even WORSE than formulaic, cliched repetition! Like TOO many great spinoffs, they invest LESS in the writing skills when a lot MORE should be the agenda! This started great the first 3 episodes, and then began to suck worse that a leech farm to the idiot ending. Even La Brea had more suspense and better writing than this, and it stunk to high heaven most of the time. It's a mockery of great acting talent and truly embarrassing to watch for anyone with an IQ above 110.

Writing great horror is hard to do in any genre, but made-for-TV horror absolutely sucks here in the states overall. It seems mostly made BY simpletons, about simpletons, FOR simpletons. The term 'Dumbing-Down' has never been so tragically illustrated as with a least 3 of the WD spinoffs! So, my ONLY question to the sub-par geniuses of this show, and others, is WHY DO YOU HIRE THE WORST WRITERS AND DIRECTORS when, for a few million bucks more, you could actually give us something worthy of an intellect over 12-14 years old?? It's greed, avarice, and MORE greed. Why?? Because you have made your billions, and we don't matter anymore as a viewing public. At least the ones of us with any discerning taste in on-screen dialog that isn't painfully predictable, or doesn't make us CRINGE every 3 minutes! Keep your slow-witted garbage and give us something professional, and worthy of OUR dedication to YOUR craft!