The Walking Dead is husk of what it once was, shambling along and going through the motions of survival, and its ratings have reflected that by dropping significantly from where they were in the show’s glory days. As reported by Variety, The Walking Dead still performed relatively strong throughout its eighth season,…

[Spoilers for The Walking Dead season-eight finale below, obviously.]

Well, it took a very long time to get here, but now we know the cause of Rick’s tears from that flash-forward we saw way back in the season, when our former sheriff was seen sobbing under a tree: It’s because he and the rest of his people are the luckiest dummies ever to walk the face of the earth.

Everyone’s the hero of their own story. In Negan’s mind, he’s the strong personality needed to unite people in desperate times, regardless of his measures. Simon sees himself as the pragmatic tough guy willing to do the things others, including Negan, won’t. And Dwight—well, maybe he’s more the tragic martyr type.

People behave in unexpected ways when they’re grieving. If you’re Jadis, you capture Negan and tie him to a cart you can wheel around the dumpster by a chain. And if you’re Rick, you promise to let scared Saviors return with you to Hilltop, get them to free you and save your life, then shoot them all in the back.

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, April 1. All times are Eastern.

The two Walking Dead shows, the vanilla version and Fear The, have had largely similar settings. The main show has stayed in the general Atlanta area and Fear The Walking Dead has hung to the West Coast, which both tend to be relatively warm regions, but Walking Dead executive producer Greg Nicotero would like to…

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It’s difficult to assess an episode like “Do Not Send Us Astray,” because it’s more like two separate installments back to back. There’s the first part, which is arguably the most entertaining and purely kinetic sequence of the back half of season eight, and then there’s what happens after, which is a…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, March 18. All times are Eastern. 

“Dead Or Alive” is a mostly quotidian episode of The Walking Dead. Daryl Dixon scowls in a most dirty-sexy fashion, and otherwise good people briefly flirt with their darker, crueler impulses, only to reject them (as we knew they would)—though those impulses are, arguably, more pragmatic. Jeffrey Dean Morgan plumbs…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, March 11. All times are Eastern. 

Perhaps the only real novelty left to The Walking Dead is in the show’s increasingly desperate efforts to find new ways of telling the same old story. A few important things happen this week, namely the end of the Scavengers and Simon betraying his boss, but what’s most immediately striking is the episode’s format:…

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Be honest: how much do you care about Carl? Do you care about him as a character? As a symbol? Are you invested in his relationship with his father and/or Michonne? Do you sometimes wonder exactly how old he’s supposed to be? “Honor” isn’t entirely focused on Carl; the plus-sized midseason premiere follows two primary…

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, February 25. All times are Eastern. 

When the back half of season eight premieres February 25, The Walking Dead will be trying to recover some lost ground. The season premiere and midseason finale were both among the lowest-rated entries of the series in the last five years, and with this Negan thing still dragging on, executive producers Scott Gimple…

Last July, stuntman John Bernecker was gravely injured on the set of AMC’s The Walking Dead, after which the show temporarily halted production. Bernecker eventually died from the injuries he sustained after falling “more than 20 feet off a balcony onto a concrete floor.” SAG-AFTRA immediately began investigating the…