I ' d say the show is doing what ' s it ' s supposed to at this point . You hate Negan , everybody is beaten and worn down . They ' re just driving home the point that Rick and the group got in way over their heads . They aren ' t the complete and total badasses they thought they were . Only thing I disagree with you on is the they won ' t get out of this without some dues ex machine part . Just stop and think for a moment , there ' s a very clear way for them to get out of this and all the new places are being introduced for a reason . <| sep |> Not everyone knows how to handle frustration . It ' s usually a reflection of how they think about themselves , more than it is an actual criticism of the thing they ' re frustrated about . I can ' t do anything about this situation . This must mean that you are doing this wrong , because you want to annoy me . Otherwise I would ' ve fixed it already . This kind of stuff is typical for people who are too insecure to realize that not everything can or must be fixed . These are the same people who think their gay son or daughter must be going through a phase of trying to agonize their parent , because they don ' t know how to deal with the fact that their offspring is not what they think is right .