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The complete disdain the writers & showrunners have for the gift of a built-in audience is astonishing. You'll be hard pressed to find one absorbing character or captivating villain. Time is of no essence - it flows without story development; Ep 10 ends exactly as you could have predicted at Ep 1, just 17 years later. The names of so many characters sound so alike it's almost impossible to know who is being talked about - if you care - behind their backs. "Inside the episode" chats invariably reference things NOT in evidence in what you just watched; this 'creative' arrogance is off-putting and insulting. Even the dragons are overused yet underwhelming. GOT was kaleidoscopic, HotD is a drudgery.

Finally! Something that defies spoilers! In order to write a spoiler, it would have to have made an iota of sense. And why am I giving this 3 stars? It was... wasn't... maybe... no... could'a been... but no. I'm not even sure the interesting premise could sustain more than half an episode's attention. For those of you who bothered to rate this series an unmitigated mess before the final episodes, rest easy: it did not get better - simply drained the last ounces of credibility before snapping whatever patience with it you might have had left.

Three years late and I still can't for the life of me understand why FOX dropped this series. The Passage trilogy was perfect for a long-running program, built in audience - and more if they'd given it a chance to catch fire. One of the great disappointments in FOX's otherwise admirable programming. Any chance some other network might pick it up as a limited series?