It's so obviously fake you want to chuckle when you see it. It's easily one of the worst shots we've ever seen in the entire show's run. In a lot of ways, that backdrop of the dump sums it up for me. Maybe we have to set aside the grim and gritty days of the show's past and just learn to love the kitschy, sometimes flat-out bad and almost always cheesy show that The Walking Dead has become. It only works under one condition: That The Walking Dead abandons all pretense of realism and embraces utterly and entirely campy, comic-book corniness. I can't figure out whether the leader of the group is speaking English as a second language or if she's mentally handicapped. I have no clue why nobody in this community speaks or smiles or shows any sign of life. They "don't bother" working that hard so they waited for Rick to steal the supplies on the boat and then followed him to Alexandria to steal them back. They're boastfully lazy, saying that they take stuff but not if it puts them out. This newest community is just bizarre, and we have no explanation for it. We have one community that's all female and shoots anyone on sight, and another community that dresses all in black, doesn't speak or show any emotion, and is ruled over by a chick who talks weird for no reason and gives orders with hand gestures-also for no apparent reason. We have a super-villain who anthropomorphizes his bat and makes terrible jokes all the time, in between spouting off nursery rhymes. We now have communities ruled by kings who talk like fake Shakespearean actors. What was once a fairly gritty zombie show that emphasized grim realism (inasmuch as this kind of show can be "realistic") has shifted toward something a lot more like a comic book. Let's face it: Lots of things about this show have changed.
Actually, at this point I'm not sure how The Walking Dead can really continue without embracing the cheese wholeheartedly. I love campy, cheesy moments in a show like The Walking Dead, which all too often takes itself far too seriously, but for this show in particular I think this could also represent a potential road to redemption.