The Walking Dead's new boss addresses fan criticism: "We have a responsibility to ourselves and our viewers to not rest on our laurels"

Variety

“None of us live in a vacuum so it would be dishonest of me to say that I’ve never heard any of that stuff,” says showrunner Angela Kang. “I don’t often go out seeking that stuff out there, because we really need to concentrate on making the best story possible. But I think a lot of times, we do our own internal reckonings, like ‘To us, it feels like we’ve done a lot of this type of story. What’s a new way to tell this? What are some of the things that we miss doing?’ And a lot of times that lines up with things that fans or critics have been feeling. So we’re not trying to chase something but we have a responsibility to ourselves and our viewers to not rest on our laurels.”

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