I kind of hate how they made the story a soap opera, but one thing I can appreciate about the show it that it keeps the theme from the comic that zombies are not the main problem.
It's just a cavalcade of awful, shitty, terrible and petty decisions that are the main reason they keep going in circles.
I think the melodrama really detracts from the parallels it tries to make about modern society.
I can see their trying, but it get so hammy at points.