
It is manipulative as hell, but it’s effective. As is sometimes the case when the storyline calls for it, Rosita gets a good day or two to say goodbye to everyone before she succumbs to her infection, including a heartbreaking exchange between her and Eugene. They name the baby Rosie after Rosita, who was bitten during the variant zombie melee. Mercer - who turned the military against Milton - is the lieutenant governor, and he’s happily dating Princess. During a montage set to Living Colour’s “Cult of Personality,” the Commonwealth and the Alexandrians work together to blow up the Estates - killing all the zombies - and a year later, most everyone lives happily ever after. arrive, they convince the military not only to let the poors in but to turn on Milton. Milton locks hundreds of the poors out of her ritzy estate, but when Daryl, Carol, and Co. Judith - the daughter of Rick and Michonne (although, biologically, Shane and Lori) - is shot, but she survives.
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Lots of people die trying to fight the new variant, including Luke (Dan Fogler), a character who was on the series for about a season and a half but has barely been seen since. Milton holes up in her estate and asks the military to funnel the horde of variant zombies into the poor neighborhoods to spare her and the wealthy folks. She doesn’t realize that the horde of zombies is not like the easy-to-subdue old variant but is instead the new one.

Here’s what happens in the last two episodes: Governor Pam Milton, in order to maintain control over The Commonwealth, releases a horde of zombies into the city as an excuse to declare martial law. That, more or less, brings us to the present. The Governor of The Commonwealth wages war on Daryl and Company. A new zombie variant that’s faster, can climb walls, and open doors is introduced. The cast relocated to The Commonwealth, a large civilization with a lot of pre-apocalypse amenities. After a seven-year prison sentence, Negan was released and helped defeat the Whisperers.


The Whisperers, the series’ last legitimately cool antagonists, killed off a number of cast members. Rick Grimes saved Alexandria from a horde of zombies but was picked up by a helicopter and never seen again. Carl was bit by a zombie and died the most humiliatingly anticlimactic death of the entire series. But, if you stuck through all 177 episodes over 12 years, the three spin-offs, and even a few web series, The Walking Dead delivered a strong finale before invariably teasing the next three spin-offs.įor those who quit after Negan bludgeoned Glenn to death in the seventh season premiere, here’s a brief recap of the last five seasons: Negan went to war against Rick Rick won but spared Negan. Were they enough to make the last five seasons worth it? Absolutely not. I’ll say this for The Walking Dead: The series reeled off 28 mediocre-to-bad episodes before the end, but the last two were legitimately solid.
