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Then, of course, there are the Wolves themselves. First off, there is of course the half of that herd of walkers that wasn’t drawn off by the Wolves’ horn. Now, in fact, is not a bad time to take stock of what’s really out there, and we’re not talking about untouched sorghum supplies. Does Rick know about the incident in the road with the goons? In all the excitement, did Abraham, Sasha, and Daryl forget about that one? You’d think it’d be a notable detail, given this group’s history with psychotic killers, that some guy named Negan has his bikers staking out the roads outside Alexandria, robbing and shooting people. Right there, in fact, would be a good time to tell Rick about Negan. “When I take a ride in my car, I let 'er roll hear me, I said I let 'er roll.”) (The song Rick loves and Daryl hates is an old rockabilly tune, “Action Packed,” the Ronnie Dee Dawson version. They haven’t seen anybody in weeks Daryl thinks maybe they won’t see anybody. Denise wants some pop for Tara, who talks about it in her sleep.

Eugene advises them to seek out the “criminally underrated grain” sorghum. They’re mainly looking for medical supplies and food. Is that part of the new world, too?įor Rick Grimes and Daryl Dixon, a day at the office means taking a pretty well maintained Chrysler out into the deserted countryside for a supply run. We haven’t, in fact, seem them together at all. After making that such a large part of the story, it’s odd to not see Glaggie reunited. The apocalypse is just another day at the office.Ĭuriously, this leap forward glosses over the reunion of Glenn and Maggie. “The New World” is a complete departure, and whether or not this is just to lull the viewer into a false sense of security until the next ultra-violent baddie appears, it’s here now. It resulted in the kind of engrossing, intense story that pulled the viewer out of their seat.

During some stretches, in fact, the whole thing seemed to occurring in real time. The first nine episodes this season covered a period of only a few days. Related: Star Danai Gurira Dissects Michonne and Rick's Relationship It almost seems like an entirely different town in an entirely different show. The wall has been repaired, and expanded (the Bible-Glock church is now inside the walls). The corpses of the undead have been cleared away, the fire put out, the streets cleaned.

This is, indeed, the new world, and it might be as stable as Alexandria has been since even before the Grimes clan arrived. Weeks have passed since the great Battle of Alexandria, and the town has regained a modicum of normalcy. There’s only so much the system can absorb at one time. Of course, that’s nothing compared to the surprise at the close, but let’s hold off on that for now. It seems like a dream, like Rick is going to wake up in the middle of a dark, wracked countryside surrounded by the undead, or something similarly desperate. This is, apparently, the new world, the one that Rick promised Carl. Smiling, a happy guy notching a new hole in his belt (what, is he losing more weight?) while a radio somewhere plays the old Boston classic “More Than a Feeling.” Michonne’s just out of the shower and asking for toothpaste. The cold open portrays domestic bliss in the Alexandria Safe Zone. “Oh, yes, because you had your eye blown out during the zombie rampage by the son of the guy I killed whose wife and brother got eaten alive in front of him.” Just like Ward and the Beaver used to do it, right?

Rick the walking dead smiling on a couch