The Walking Dead has always been a grim, gritty show given the ongoing storyline of a ragtag team of survivors trying to stay alive in a zombie apocalypse. But the mid-season premiere of season 6 has raised the bar even higher. Fans still can't get over the episode 9, and are on edge awaiting what happens after.
Not even the usually unshockable Huffington Post can get over last week's episode, which left many viewers, even those who had read the books, feeling pretty devastated. To recap: the zombies had overrun Alexandria, the protected little town where our band of merry men had thought to find a more long-lasting sanctuary. When things go south, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his group go out the only way they can: filled with zombie gore from head to foot, the only thing that can help them mix with the undead as they slowly walk through that pack and get into safety on the other side. The risks are high, but they literally have their back against the wall, with nowhere else to go.
Something goes wrong, and Rick sees his life crumble in an instant. His new love Jessie (Alexandra Breckenridge) and her son Sam are detected and devoured by the zombie horde. In the chaos, a survivor's gun fires off accidentally and hits Rick's son Carl (Chandler Riggs) in the eye, blinding him. Then some of that group manage to flee their hungry pursuers and find another refuge is already a miracle. But it is an episode that has everyone talking.
Comic Book Resources even broke the news that some viewers found the show so 'realistic' that they had to call the police and 911.
Lennie James, who plays Morgan, says that the rest of season 6 will be filled with more shocks that will take the story, characters, and audiences into a whole new direction. One character that does loom over the horizon is the super-evil warlord, Negan, who makes the cruel Governor look like your friendly neighborhood doctor. Lennie James, who plays Morgan, enthuses that Jeffrey Dean Morgan's performance as Negan is "off the charts."
In his Digital Spy interview, James adds tha the new season will "blow [everyone away]," promising that even the readers of the book, on which the series is based, will not be able to foresee what happens next.
