Has 'The Walking Dead' finally gone too far for fans? (SPOILER ALERT) 

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Has 'The Walking Dead' finally gone too far for fans?

Kelly Lawler , USA TODAY 1:31 p.m. EDT October 24, 2016

Here's who died on The Walking Dead season 7 premiere. Time

Spoiler alert! The following contains details from the Season 7 premiere of 

Even a zombie apocalypse show can cross the line.

 was one of the show\'s most highly anticipated episodes, as fans have been waiting for months to find out who was killed in the Season 6 finale by new villain Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). For some, that answer -- and the brutally violent way in which it was revealed -- was worse than the anticipation.

In a moment of extreme graphic violence (even for a routinely violent show), two fan-favorite cast members, Glenn (Seven Yeun) and Abraham (Michael Cudlitz) , were brutally beaten to death by Negan with a baseball bat covered in barbed wire. The two deaths of beloved characters were shown in such excruciating detail in a relentless and frustrating episodethat many fans said they were frustrated enough to quit the show for good.

I might quit walking dead for good.....it's an emotional train of death.

— ☠┼ Ash Costello ┼☠ (@Ash_Costello) October 24, 2016

Good bye forever @WalkingDead_AMC. That was disgusting. #TheWalkingDead didn't just jump the shark it pulped it.

— John Hocevar (@JohnHocevar) October 24, 2016

I've officially quit watching the walking dead after today

So, @WalkingDead_AMC jumped the shark. I'm done and won't be watching from here out. Sorry @AMC_TV@AMCTalkingDead, but it was too graphic. pic.twitter.com/2H2MsFS7AB

— Corey Blaser (@coreyblaser) October 24, 2016

That was brutally dark & interminably painful to watch.There's no doubt that I had a panic attack in front of my television. #TheWalkingDead

— Scott Meisner (@scottmeiz) October 24, 2016

For this recapper, it was a hard episode to get through, with the violence verging on nauseating while the plot dithered and attempted to manipulate fans into caring.

writing, "When real life already seems a few calamitous steps away from dystopia, surviving an hour of pure, relentless misery isn’t entertainment — it’s a chore," while 

said, "if the average episode is as much fun as a punch to the jaw, the Season Seven premiere was—well—a barbed-wire baseball bat to the skull." Vox went so far as to call it "dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. It’s stupid. It’s downright appalling, is what it is."

Will fans truly tune out of one of TV\'s top-rated shows? Or will a return to normalcy in the rest of the season be enough to calm everyone down? Fans may have to wait and see how much more they can take.

Images from \'The Walking Dead\' Season 7

Rick is exhausted in the Season 7 premiere of \'The Walking Dead.\' You can scroll through for photos from Sunday\'s episode, "The Day Will Come When You Won\'t Be," and others from the season. Spoilers for the episode follow. 

Season 6 left us guessing who fell victim to Negan and his barbed-wire covered baseball bat, "Lucille" (episode 1). 

Spoiler! Abraham and Glenn both died in the premiere (episode 1). 

Abraham got one final dig in during his final moments (episode 1). 

His death was devastating to his buddy Eugene (episode 1). 

Glenn\'s wife, Maggie, was devastated. And still in need of a doctor (episode 1). 

Daryl was taken hostage by Negan and his followers at the end of the episode (episode 1). 

Carl narrowly escaped a gruesome fate (episode 1). 

Michonne tried to reason with Negan, and it didn\'t work out too well (episode 1). 

Rick was broken by Negan\'s psychological warfare (episode 1). 

At the end of the episode, Rick imagines waht could have been. We\'ll miss you, Glenn and Abraham(episode 1). 

Jeffrey Dean Morgan has joined the cast as the villainous Negan. 

Lennie James will return Morgan Jones in later episodes. 

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