Near the series finale, a child zombie keeps following Maggie Greene (Lauren Cohan), one of the show’s few remaining cast members from the early seasons. Could a loved one still be “in there” in some way? How could one truly know?
One of the major conflicts of the show, one that never fully went away, was the reality of having to kill beings that still seemed alive. You could see the writers pushing themselves to create dilemmas that had never been done in a zombie movie before-trapped in a dumpster, in a military tank, in a revolving door-or to think through the implications of the zombie mythology in new ways. “I’m sorry that this happened to you,” he says, after a long silent moment of simply watching her struggle to continue to pull herself along.įor years, “The Walking Dead” was a show that found within its horror-movie conceit a chance to explore questions of grief and loss in ways every bit as resonant and deep as more critically acclaimed shows like “The Leftovers” or “Six Feet Under.” It was also just a great roller coaster ride. And instead of showing disgust or horror, he quietly grieves for her. Later in the story, having gotten himself together (and gathered a large cache of weapons, a “Walking Dead” staple), Rick returns unexpectedly to that woman. “The Walking Dead” ends its 12-year, 11-season, 177-episode run on AMC this month.
(One of the great initial ideas of the show and the comic book upon which it is based was to place at its center not the typical damsel in distress but a frightened man.)
On his way home he comes upon the rotting upper body of a woman, and is paralyzed with fear when it suddenly turns over and begins to drag itself toward him. For most of that episode, we watch as Deputy Sheriff Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), having awoken from a coma to discover society has mysteriously collapsed, wanders through a seemingly abandoned world. When people look back on “The Walking Dead,” which ends its 12-year, 11-season, 177-episode run on AMC this month, they’re likely to remember it as “that zombie show.”īut rewatching the pilot recently, I was stunned to be reminded of just how much depth and heart the series brought to that idea.
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