They throw the vehicle into reverse and try to find another way to Hilltop, only to meet more Saviors. They occasionally attempt to talk with the Saviors, but those attempts are rebuffed. Rick and company, driving in an RV to take Maggie to Hilltop for medical attention, keep encountering roadblocks the Saviors have put up for them. The RV pulls away from yet another group of Saviors. He was a tiny little bright spot in an otherwise muck-brown mess. Heck, I almost didn't mind that one of his lines in 'Last Day on Earth' involved the word 'pee pee pants.'īut Negan wasn't the cherry on top of a sundae.

But if the rest of this episode had been better - and if it weren't for that cliffhanger - I might be tempted to have muted hope for season seven, entirely because of Jeffrey Dean Morgan. The Walking Dead 's entire sixth season has been building to the Negan reveal (more on that in a moment), and the actor isn't quite good enough to live up to that. And he cuts a truly menacing figure as he strides around with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire and named Lucille. He can't overcome the fact that the monologue the writers hand him just keeps going and going and going and going, but he finds the nasty humor in the speech. Let's start on a positive note: The preternaturally charming Jeffrey Dean Morgan turns up for the first time as the monstrous Negan in this episode, and he's quite good. Here's the good, the weird, and the (mostly) bad of 'Last Day on Earth.' Good: Jeffrey Dean Morgan is solid as Negan Jeffrey Dean Morgan is nicely chilling as Negan. Season five's murder hospital was pretty dumb, and, of course, Herschel's farm was a disaster that nearly tanked the entire second season of the show.īut you know what? The show has never produced an installment as bad as its season six finale, 'Last Day on Earth.' The extra-long episode spent its first hour dramatizing all the excitement of your GPS insisting that you take a road you already know is closed, and the last half-hour sank some nicely spooky moments with a too-long monologue and a completely botched cliffhanger.Īnd I haven't even touched on the episode's B-story, an ultra-bizarre journey into the wild with Morgan and Carol for the sole purpose of resolving a storyline that never made sense to begin with.

There was that two-parter from the Governor's point of view in season four, and the way the show seemed to think viewers just loved Merle, Daryl's racist older brother, in season three. The Walking Dead has done some dirt-stupid things over the years.

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