Regardless, it looks like we may have already reached peak popularity for The Walking Dead.
I’ve long said that The Walking Dead could probably accomplish the same thing in 13 episodes that in does now in 16, but I hardly begrudge it the extra episodes if people are still going to tune in.
I still think that Season 6 was one of my favorite Walking Dead seasons ever, and we haven’t gotten so far away from that at this point.
Eventually though, that may be a tactic the network wants to consider if they want to keep people enticed over the long haul.