The Walking Dead: Was season seven premiere too violent?

Opening episode of hit AMC zombie show prompts complaints with gruesome killing

the Walking Dead
Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon

This article contains spoilers for season seven episode one

The Walking Dead season seven premiere aired last night – and was, by all accounts, one of the most explicitly violent episodes of the AMC zombie show, even prompting complaints from a US parents' organisation.

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