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The Walking Dead Redemption Club season 7, episode 1. Bury Me Here. Last year, AMC’s The Walking Dead betrayed its audience by throwing away beloved characters and coherent storytelling, all in the name of Negan.

After the gory season 7 premiere sparked an outrage, viewers began leaving the show in droves, and by the time the midseason finale rolled around, ratings had dropped 4. Now, after two months to rethink and retool, The Walking Dead has returned for the second half of the season. It’s an opportunity for the show to chart a new course, to correct the mistakes it’s made, and convince viewers that the story of Rick Grimes is still worth following. The only question is whether the series can pull it off. Welcome to The Walking Dead Redemption Club. Nick Statt: With just four episodes left to go in the season, The Walking Dead is shaping up for what feels like another fateful finale in which some big names will die, Negan will do some bad stuff, and the chess board will be reshuffled yet again.

Last week, Bryan, we got a grab bag of strong (and weird) moments that further set the stage for Rick’s eventual act of defiance. Alexandria is stockpiling firearms, making allies, and preparing for war. Meanwhile, Rosita and Sasha have plans of their own and that could shake things up. But my biggest gripe now is that everything important feels rushed while everything inconsequential gets too much screen time.

Characters once vaunted for their complexity and awarded much- needed screen time feel sidelined. We haven’t seen a real moment with Carl since Negan brought him back in the half- season finale, Maggie and Jesus are nowhere to be found, and Carol and Daryl are treated too much like props with a single dimension. Bryan Bishop: It’s hard to disagree with any of that. The Walking Dead show has never been very good about juggling multiple character arcs, instead opting for bottle episodes that focus on just a handful of characters or a group. Granted, there are some benefits to this approach — how satisfying was it when Carol finally returned a few episodes back, after she’d disappeared for so long? When there’s no continuity in terms of emotional engagement week to week because the focus keeps changing, it’s hard for the show to work up any momentum.

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Granted, that’s not just a Walking Dead problem. Other sprawling ensembles like Game of Thrones have had similar problems, but now that it’s getting time for a proper show- down, it’s easy to see the duct tape and bailing wire that sometimes holds this show together. This week I’m hoping the show can regain that rhythm it’s sometimes missing, because we’re going to need it for the season climax to satisfy in the way I think even wary fans are hoping for.

Photo by Gene Page / AMCCAROL COMES OUT OF HIDINGNick: The Walking Dead has never been great at subtlety. It tends to favor beating viewers over the head either with blatant foreshadowing or overt metaphors than presenting a scene that’s too challenging or cryptic. So when Carol makes her way back to the Kingdom in the opening of “Bury Me Here,” that tells us quite a few things about where this episode might be headed. On her way there, she expertly dispatches a number of walkers, earning the admiration of Kingdom dwellers, especially young Morgan- in- training, Benjamin. Carol has a mission here: she wants Morgan to tell her what happened with Rick and the Saviors, and whether Daryl was lying. But Morgan refuses, telling her to take up it up with Daryl.

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On her way out, Benjamin asks Carol to show him the ropes of zombie- killing, and she tells him to instead stay with the group doing the Saviors weekly supply drop. Every single one of these fast- moving plot machinations very clearly serves a purpose.

Benjamin might be in trouble in this episode, Carol might found out the truth, and Morgan will have to reckon with both. It’s not subtle, sure, but at least the story is moving. Photo by Gene Page / AMCBURN THE GARDEN TO THE GROUNDBryan: I remember watching The Love Boat as a kid, when I realized the way that show linked together its paired storylines was by using a common theme to unite them. Granted, it was a terrible show (and a very long time ago), but that narrative trick has stood out to me ever since, and this week we got a big one courtesy of the Kingdom.

Like . Weevils have infected the Royal Garden, it turns out, and they’re a threat to the main crops. The only option, Ezekiel is told, is for them to slash and burn everything in the Royal Garden. It’s a place that is particularly important to Ezekiel because of what it represents, but he’s cautioned against worrying too much.“Here’s the beautiful thing, your majesty,” he’s told. You can burn it, and throw it all away. But if you want, it can all grow back.” It’s a moment that’s given such a standalone treatment that it may as well have been underlined and in italics, but the meaning is clear: sometimes things don’t go the way we want, and hard work has to be sacrificed. But things don’t end there.

If you don’t give up, you can bring back that which you’ve had to destroy. At this particular moment in the episode, it’s unclear what exactly the scene is hinting at. Civilization? Baseline humanity in a world gone mad? Much like my younger self and that episode of The Love Boat, it would take until later in the episode to see how the pieces fit, but savvy Walking Dead viewers know a call to put on their Thematic Detective hats when they hear one. Photo by Gene Page / AMCTHE SAVIORS ARE JERKS. Ezekiel and a group from the Kingdom head out to make their regular donation to the Saviors, but they run into trouble: somebody has lined up a series of shopping carts to block the path. As the group clears the mess and sees who might be responsible, they come across a sobering sight: a freshly dug grave, with a makeshift headstone that just reads “Bury me here.” Ezekiel opines on the sad state of the world now, and how it’s a miracle they haven’t all gone crazy, but Benjamin — the young member of the Kingdom that Morgan began training — lends Ezekiel solace.

They haven’t gone mad, he says, because the Kingdom has given them another potential future to believe in, and that’s thanks to Ezekiel. Richard seems all too happy to die for The Kingdom.

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But a nice moment can’t stay nice for long, and when Team Kingdom meets Team Saviors, it turns out they are one cantaloupe short of the promised tribute. Having counted them himself, Ezekiel can’t understand the problem, but the situation quickly escalates as the Saviors collect guns from Ezekiel, Richard, Morgan, and the others. Jared, the long- haired tough guy that took Morgan’s stick a few episodes ago, looks like he’s going to shoot Richard to even out the score. Richard seems all too happy to die for the Kingdom — but instead Jared fires off a casual shot toward Benjamin, hitting him in the leg.

The gunplay has terrible consequences, however, as the bullet hits an artery and Benjamin quickly starts to bleed out. Richard seems shell- shocked by the turn of events, and Ezekiel and the rest of his men quickly carry Benjamin to the truck. He won’t make it all the way back to the Kingdom, so they bring him to Carol’s house instead, hoping they’ll be able to save his life. But it’s too late and he’s lost too much blood. Benjamin tells them that it’s okay, “to injure an opponent is to injure yourself.” And then he’s gone. Photo by Gene Page / AMCA LIFE- THREATENING CANTALOUPENick: When we discover that Benjamin perished from his gunshot wound, Morgan proceeds to have a bit of a meltdown, wandering the streets and contemplating his personal responsibility and whether his virtuous way of life is in fact the wrong move. Just when we think he’s about to totally lose it, he kicks a bucket to reveal the hidden grapefruit that started the whole messy showdown in the first place.

As is made abundantly clear by a somewhat unnecessary three- second flashback to 1.

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When Mer found her former sister- in- law looking “super sketchy” in the supply closet, she asked if Amelia was looking for drugs. Watch Rocky Balboa Download. When the newlywed balked, Grey sheepishly argued, “I’m supposed to ask if I care, right?” Upon being informed that Amelia was expecting, Mer sweetly offered her congratulations. Hunt wasn’t sure, she was just late. Off that, the maybe- mom- to- be was about to talk to Owen when he volunteered to babysit Harriet for Jackson. Finally, Harriet fell asleep on Owen, which, as any parent knows, is freakin’ heaven, and his wife. Since Maggie’d told him that their AC was on the fritz, he offered to “share . Though she was tempted — the house was a sweatbox — she turned him down, cracking, “You need a cooling blanket.”Only minutes into the episode, Chelsea, a patient of Mer’s admitted with dehydration, developed complications that necessitated a liver transplant.

Since Chelsea’s twin, Chandler, was pregnant and therefore ineligible to donate her liver, you knew to cue Grey’s clash with Bailey in 3, 2. Bailey was sure the old lady would make the sacrifice for the younger woman, but instead, she decided, “Screw her!” prompting Mer to brand her an “organ hog” and Richard to label her a “selfish old biddy.”. RELATEDGrey’s Anatomy: Tessa Ferrer Returns as Arizona’s Once (and Future?) Love.

Miraculously, it worked. Maggie and Stephanie lost their patient, which might have been just as well, as the joke Edwards would’ve told him on his request would likely have killed him, Pierce said. Also, his demise freed up a liver for Chelsea. Watching Chelsea get her liver, Andrew told Jo to get her “self- pity gland” checked — “it’s incredibly swollen,” he joked. So, what did you think of “Both Sides Now”?

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