I’m really glad this article specifically cites The Walking Dead as having great female characters because it now truly does.

The first two seasons, not so much. But oh how that has changed.

Carol (OMG Carol), Andrea, Maggie, Michonne, Beth, Sasha, Tara, Rosita, and others — all great. So extremely well-written.

They all feel like real people to me, like someone I could have known. They hold a shape in my mind that fictional characters usually do not.

And Carol is doubly unusual because she is in her late 40s and not in any way sexualized. Not that the other female characters are, either, but what Carol has become fits no archetype, no stereotype, no standard path. She is completely unpredictable in a direct and meta sense and therefore the most fun character I have ever watched on any television show that I’ve ever seen.