![]() ![]() It was that aspect of the show - no end in sight - that effectively keeps fans of the show tuned in, while slowly alienating the rest of us, who grew too weary with the ever-circling plot to go on. The show was about humans treating each other terribly - with no end in sight. Rick got lost in the post-zombie world’s widening chasm of moral choice and viewers stopped worrying so much about zombies. Thanks to far too many violent encounters with the living, the leader of the pack discovered his own inner monster, as well as a potential to be a righteous tyrant. The violence and loss took its toll, and his heroism flagged in the face of all that self-preservation. Even Carl, who had grown from being the show’s preteen nuisance to one of its noblest citizens, took his own life last year after a zombie bit him.Ĭountless other friends have come have gone - eaten, murdered, beaten to a pulp. No character on this show is ever guaranteed a permanent stay, regardless of what happened to “The Walking Dead” comic-book characters they were all based on: Shane became a zombie and was killed Lori died many seasons ago, leaving Rick with an infant daughter, Judith. ![]() Many arduous seasons later, Rick’s group made its way to Northern Virginia in a seemingly hopeless search for safety and security amid stressful group dynamics and deadly conflicts with packs of other humans. Initially reunited with his wife, Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies), son Carl (Chandler Riggs) and his colleague Shane (Jon Bernthal), Rick became the de facto leader of a band of survivors who slowly journeyed outward from the Atlanta megalopolis (and its infinite supply of zombies). Rick, played by Andrew Lincoln, survived eight-plus seasons in a dreary, often excessively violent zombie apocalypse epic, which all began from his perspective: He was a wounded sheriff’s deputy in Georgia who woke from a coma in a hospital that had been abandoned during a sudden zombie outbreak. ![]() Although many of us have given up on AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” which has shed an average of 5 million or so viewers in the last year (fear not - it still draws more than 7 million each week, keeping it cable’s highest-rated drama by far), Sunday night’s episode offered a fitting opportunity to come back for an hour and witness the emotional exit of its lead character, Rick Grimes. ![]()
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