The Walking Dead learned from past seasons and did everything right with this week's harrowing episode. This is how.
best episode, despite existing nearly a decade after the show premiered, here in season 9. To examine what it got right, I think we have to look at whatead has gotten so very wrong the past few years, and how Angela Kang and company fixed those issues with The Calm Before.
But these “fake-outs” work, and are not rage-inducing because they only last the duration of the episode, and they made the deaths of Tara and Henry specifically hit harder for comic readers because of how they were set up. This is how to “trick” viewers, making it feel clever, not dirty. Hell, even the episode name was a trick, as The Calm Before implies nothing crazy will happen this episode, but that was clearly not the case.
Henry’s death, though I feel sad for both the actor in real life and Carol on the show, losing yet another child, probably makes the most sense, and was the “best” decision, if that term can apply. Henry has been taking on the role of “fake Carl” after Carl’s untimely demise, and as long as he existed on the show, he was always going to be viewed like that. So now he’s dead, and we don’t have to deal with that conundrum any more.
Finally, there were no cliffhangers. That concept was avoided entirely. I’ve seen some speculation about what this episode would have been like in the Scott Gimple era. First, it would have been the season finale, not the penultimate episode, and instead of the reveal of the identities of the ten heads, the final shot of the episode probably would have been the backs of a few heads on pikes, and we’d have to wait until next October to figure out who actually died.
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