The Walking Dead Recap: Resistance, Gaze, and Bromance

We haven’t gotten a single story all season. Instead we got pieces of several stories. That meant that the 90 minute mid-season finale had so much work to do to try to pull it all together in a way that made sense and was gratifying (read: made me hate myself less for watching all those episodes). Because of that, it was a dense episode with each character in the ensemble picking up their storyline and running with it.

ca Over at Hilltop, Maggie is 1/8 mourning Glen and 7/8 lowkey running Gregory for all of his shit including the literal food he was about to put in his mouth. Maggie is pregnant and killed more zombies than Greg’s cowardly ass? Maaaaan, listen, Sasha and ‘em getting treated like they just put it on the entire town. Dudes just out here baking entire pies for them. And Gregory? Welp, he don’t like it but Maggie is killing him with the feigned kindness while counting up everyting he owns that is about to be hers.

Meanwhile, Negan’s freshly shaven ass (why did no one slit his throat when he was literally holding the murder weapon up to the most vulnerable part of his body? If this was CLUE, they’d need to be like “It was Nicole in that fancy ass bathroom with his own straight razor) is all up in Rick’s house eating his food, dirtying up his dishes, sexually harassing his babysitter, and using his son as a prop in a really creepy roleplaying suburban dad fantasy. If your Thanksgiving wasn’t this awkward after your racist/sexist/transphobic/homophobic/generally pr…