However, many consider that point to be the beginning of the end.
Five episodes in, the current season has felt like one of the strongest in years.
Why isThe Walking Deadhaving such a creative renaissance?
Here are five reasons.
But how would that translate from page to screen?
The answer: tremendously.
Samantha Mortonis electric as the cult-like group’s leader, Alpha, displaying both public power and private vulnerability.
But Beta is more than just muscle.
That’s no easy task, they just make itlookeasy.
Speaking of villains…
2.
The same has been true on the TV show.
Kang and her writing team have done a masterful job of showing a somewhat reformed and evolved Negan.
The trick is that the dude is still kind of an ahole.
Perhaps the best example of Negan 2.0 occurred this past week, when Negan befriended a young boy.
So, twisted and demented, but also kind and caring.
And it’s no accident that we will see even more of them next week.
The season 10 premiere kept rewinding time to show us the same period in different places.
The week after that, we saw49 hours of a zombie siege in about 2 minutes.
None of these were mere gimmicks, however.
And as if to prove that nothing is off limits, Kang started the season…IN SPACE!!
We bathe in blood.
We need no words.
We embrace our death.
This is the end of the world.
Now is the end of the world.
We are the end of the world."
I was like, ‘Great!’
And I think the way that they use it is perfect too."
He just feels so alone, and he feels so sad.
Trust had been forged on both sides.
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