The Walking Dead: 10 Great Episodes to Help Us Forget the Bad Season 6 Finale
Look, the Season 6 finale of The Walking Dead left a really bad taste in our mouths, and we have to wait half a year to find out who died in the finale's cliff-hanger.
[...] instead of taking a "what have you done for me lately?" approach to The Walking Dead and getting down on the show, let's put a positive spin on things and remember that this series can be be good!
Like the show itself, they come with lots of range, from character-building episodes to pivotal moments in the series to flat-out brutal action full of head shots.
No one knew if a zombie TV show would really work, particularly on a prestige network like AMC.
[...] the extended pilot was a spectacular episode of television as Rick (Andrew Lincoln) woke up from a coma several months into a zombie apocalypse, rather than going through the tropes of the early outbreak days.
The episode's measured pace fit perfectly with creator Frank Darabont's style, which is ironic because that same style would drag the series down and force AMC to make major behind-the-scenes changes just over a dozen episodes later.
The image of zombie Sofia (Madison Lintz) shambling out of the barn should be forever ingrained in the mind of anyone who saw it, and proved that The Walking Dead wasn't going to treat children any differently from the adults.
The Rick-and-Shane (Jon Bernthal) dynamic was always the best part of this show, and things boiled over as the frenemies went looking for a place to feed a dangerous captive to the undead.
Killing a perfectly healthy human being in order to survive would become a recurring theme in the series, but the personal connection we had with the Rick-Shane dynamic made this one the biggest deaths of all.
Carl was forced to put his mom down before she turned, and as he and Maggie (Lauren Cohan) entered the yard with no Lori, Lincoln got to act his grieving ass off and gave the Internet the best The Walking Dead meme.
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