I don't get the raving about the acting. Jon Bernthal doesn't do much for me in this role. I could not stand seeing the stupid and completely annoying flashbacks of his lame wife in almost every episode. This is really violent, very unrealistic (I get this is based on a comic but seriously no one can sustain the levels of beatings/abuse) and tedious. There is a lot of bashing the NRA, making soldiers look unbalanced and the military corrupt. And overall they did in 13 episodes what could have been done in half the episodes just repeating the same match ups on a new day. People get shot in the head and wake up fine, everyone gets beaten senseless several times with minimal down time. Relationships really aren't developed or sensical. You know how it is going to end up so it is really just a matter of putting in the time to get there. Sad what people think is great TV today.