It has been a few weeks now since the AMC zombie series "The Walking Dead" brought its fifth dark season to a close.

The show ended with the kind of sacrifice amid madness that fans of the moody horror franchise have come to crave, with several close calls and the return of fan favorite Morgan Jones, who is played by Lennie James.

And there was some questionable killing, as the longest living survivor on the show Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) blew out the brains of some poor drunk named Pete.

Judging from the aftermath of the episode, it seems just about everybody watched it, but not everybody was crazy about it.

Geoff Nichols at Fansided talks about the most-viewed finale in the show's history this way: “Personally I feel like Season 5 did not live up to expectations and whilst this may be a controversial stance, it is important to recognize that much of this is due to the quality of the show in previous seasons that has raised the bar for a zombie survival drama.”

The entertainment critic, noting how much time the series spent showing ways the survivors have learned to adopt different mentalities in order to cope with changing environs, feels that the show “is a few tweaks" away from getting back to what made it so great in the first place.

Erik Kain at Forbes had an uneasy feeling about the way Pete was executed but said, “Philosophical and ethical ramblings aside, this was one of the most tense and anxious episodes of The Walking Dead I can remember watching.”

According to a Huffington Post piece, Scott Gimple, the series showrunner, is remaining quiet about what will come in Season 6, but Norman Reedus, who plays Daryl Dixon, the resourceful would-be racist on the show, says that he thinks the season is "going to be total chaos."