The Walking Dead: What Was Your Favorite Season?

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Nir Regev:

Favorite Season of The Walking Dead: Season 3

Welcome to Woodbury. Season 3 of The Walking Dead was an electrifying, thought provoking experience. We saw what an oasis built on the ruins of chaos would look like, and what it would take to fortify it. Rick Grimes lead nemesis’ The Governor presented a fresh approach to the survival question. The zombie experiments to see if something human could still be found, hidden away in the depths of monstrosity were especially captivating. Daryl’s brother Merle made a striking return and was rightfully resentful at being left on the roof in Season 1.

Though Shane was a perfect rival to Rick Grimes in Season 2, his history as an officer with Rick still held together a withering friendship. Here we see no such friendship. No compromise with The Governor. This is the first season to ensnare the viewer in its web and question the terms of morality. Shades of gray rather than clear good/bad archetypes. The cast’s chemistry was on fire, top class. Acting 101.

Honorable Mention: Season 2

Tracey Phillipps:

Favorite Season of The Walking Dead: Season 3

Whew! It’s tough to choose, but I’m going to say Season 3. We were introduced to 2 new major locations, the prison and Woodbury. Relationships already introduced were explored further, some strengthened, some challenged, and some extinguished. We met intriguing new characters in Michonne and the Governor. Can I just say “Clear”?! Seeing Morgan again for the first time was both epic and sad. We met up with the infamous Merle again and watched as he sacrificed himself for the greater good (not to be confused with Dawn’s version of “the greater good”!) in his final moments. And, let us not forget — Season 3 gave us Daryl with a baby in his arms!!

Honorable Mention: Season 1

Susie Graham:

Favorite Season of The Walking Dead: Season 2

Season 2 is my favorite. It was the slow, Hitchcockian season of build up. We got to know our group better. We met Hershel, Maggie and Beth and stayed in the relative safety of the farm but the turmoil of each other. We met a swimmer in the well. We dealt with the drama of Rick and Shane and the pregnancy and Lady MacBeth. We fought with the questions that would become more and more real down the road–the idea that the rules are changing.

We were introduced to the idea that in this show we are going to meet new characters and loved characters are going to die and that threats are going to come from things besides the walkers. Daryl became lovable. We killed the living. We lost Shane and Dale and maybe some of our humanity. No more kids’ stuff; it’s not a democracy anymore. The fire took us away from the farm and separated us from. Andrea. We learned that we’re all infected. And Sophia came out of the barn.

Honorable Mention: Season 5

Adam Carlson:

Favorite Season of The Walking Dead: Season 1

The first season of The Walking Dead was by far the best. Maybe that is because it was the introduction to the characters and the world of walkers, but there is something about seeing Rick Grimes wake up from his coma and hunt down his family that is very heartwarming.

It also includes many of my favorite characters before they had major moments that changed them. Watching characters like Rick, Morgan, and Carol as they were before the events of the farmhouse, prison, Terminus, and Alexandria helps reinforce that these individuals are actually people that have been hardened by their time running from the undead.

Even going back and observing season 1 of The Walking Dead is an absolute treat. You can catch some things that you might not have noticed before as well as cues to the mannerisms that several of the characters have on the show to this day.

Season one never had any pacing problems. From the start of the show, fans were drawn in to the plights of Rick Grimes and never looked back. It was all about watching him and his family trying to survive. But seeing all the innocence that the first season had to offer helps us appreciate how brutal the later seasons were on the survivors.

Honorable Mention: Season 5

Lauren Roberts:

Favorite Season of The Walking Dead: Season 3

After a lot of thought, I think season 3 is my favorite. I love that by that point, we could see the growth of so many of the characters – the ones who had survived long enough, at least – from who they were in season 1 and 2. So much had happened to them, and it had made them all so much stronger; as individuals, as a family collectively, and as it affected the many different relationships between individual characters, like Daryl and Carol or Hershel and Glenn…

The combinations of characters whose interactions I enjoyed watching in season 3 are almost endless. Though there were still plenty of dangers all around them, it was like they occasionally got to stop and take a breath with the prison as their home base. They’d been traumatized by then, of course, but looking back now, there were so many things that hadn’t had a chance to scar them yet… After watching through the end of season 5, season 3 almost feels like a simpler, more innocent time.

Honorable Mention: Season 2

Vote Count:

Favorite Season –

Season 3: 3 Votes
Season 2: 1 Vote
Season 1: 1 Vote

Honorable Mentions –

Season 5: 2 Votes
Season 2: 2 Votes
Season 1: 1 Vote

What was your favorite season Walking Dead fans?

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