Halfway through the episode, we get the confirmation that most Walking Dead fans expected - we’ve been watching Sasha die from Eugene’s proffered suicide pill the entire time. It’s not until later that we realize the context of these close-ups: Negan has placed Sasha, alive, in a coffin to bargain for her life with Rick. Intermittently, we see intense close-ups of Sasha as she listens to Donny Hathaway’s “Someday We’ll All Be Free,” while reliving memories of her last moments with Abraham ( Michael Cudlitz), along with a special moment shared with Maggie ( Lauren Cohan). But these friendly overtures are put on hold when Jadis betrays Rick just as you might have suspected, her group is in league with Negan. It’s sort of great, and Michonne kinda thinks so, too. Jadis straight-up puts the moves on Rick by asking Michonne if she minds if Jadis sleeps with him after. Jadis ( Pollyanna McIntosh) arrives at Alexandria with her formidable army from the Junkyard Gang. If Dwight’s plan to defeat the small group, then attack Negan’s compound and wipe out the Saviors feels a bit too tidy, it should.
Instead of sending him off on a surely suicidal solo mission, Ezekiel ( Khary Payton) offers Morgan a chance to join the alliance with the Alexandrians and the Hilltop, so Morgan, true to character, puts his slow stroll toward violence on hold a little longer.Īt Alexandria, Dwight ( Austin Amelio), who arrived in a cliffhanger last episode, reveals that Negan has learned of Rick’s plans to resist, and that he’s bringing a group of 20 or so saviors to fight the Alexandrians. “I’m stuck,” he tells Ezekiel, in a neat encapsulation of this entire season’s ethical conflicts. The Hilltoppers and the Kingdomers finalize their decision to join the Alexandria alliance, but Morgan ( Lennie James) has his own ideas he outfits himself in the combat gear of a dead friend in preparation for a solo ambush against the Saviors. Sasha ( Sonequa Martin-Green) makes a deal with Negan. Throughout this episode, characters are making deals, double-deals, and back-deals with each other and with themselves. The first phase of the war starts - and ends Season seven feels like an anticlimax that’s played out over 16 episodes. Gimple has largely left us where we were at the end of season six: with the threat of Negan unresolved, Rick still vowing to kill him, and tearjerking montages of characters preparing to fight. It’s clear that this - the Alexandrian alliance’s first stand against the Saviors - is where the show has been stashing part of its budget, leading to lots of big confrontations that occurred off-screen, to the show’s detriment.īut apart from the finale’s tearjerker moments of finding out who lives and who dies, showrunner Scott M. We get to see one of our favorites go full zombie, a giant CGI tiger maul some people, and a true last-minute cavalry rescue. Spoilers for The Walking Dead finale follow. Yet a full season of characters being unsure what choices to make - and talking about their indecisiveness a lot - has resulted in a final burst of activity in the season finale, “ The First Day of the Rest of Your Life.” If there’s been a theme for this season, it’s arguably been ambivalence and indecision. The Walking Dead’s seventh season has often felt like an endless slog through a zombie-infested quagmire, where even the zombies are too stuck to do much more than moan.
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