'Walking Dead' Slammed by Parents TV Council Over Violent Season 7 Premiere
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The PTC thinks 'The Walking Dead' went too far with the first episode of the seventh season, saying that the TV-MA rating may not be enough.

AceShowbiz - The Parents Television Council is not OK with the brutal deaths shown on the premiere of "The Walking Dead" season 7. The conservative watchdog group slams the Sunday episode [SPOILER ALERT!] which featured Jeffrey Dean Morgan beating two characters to death with a baseball bat covered with barbed wire.

"They've entered a whole new territory in terms of the violence," said Melissa Henson, program director for the Parents Television Council. "In the past we've seen zombie on human violence or human on zombie violence but this kind of violence to this extreme is ... a whole new category."

PTC president Tim Winter additionally mulled over the need for a more severe rating above the current TV-MA. "When you look at definition of MA and what content of the show is, it's unquestionable they chose what best represented the content," he told The Hollywood Reporter. "This certainly raises question of if there should be an even more severe rating than TV-MA."

"I understand violence is inherent to the storytelling here but the manner in which the depictions were made ... it crossed the line," he added. "With The Walking Dead, the creative team has resorted to the graphic violence as a crutch for what used to be better storytelling. When you can't figure out what lines to write, you put something in easier, which is a graphic depiction. To me, it's too much."

The show hasn't responded to the criticism, but executive producer Greg Nicotero previously explained the need for the gory sequence, "In this instance, we felt that it was important to launch us into the season by showing the extent of what Negan is capable of doing because that drives so much of where the series is going from here on in."

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