The Walking Dead, Season 6, Episode 10: The Next World
A bit of a slower episode, and I question whether we kind of need this pacing. Walking Dead is six seasons in now, and while I may be watching these episodes at a breakneck pace the repeated themes of nihilism and general unappealing solution of 'Rick Numero Uno' means that it's not always the best show to follow. Now I've been complaining about the past nine episodes, where it revolves around this one huge, long event, that ended... while not horribly, certainly not in the most satisfying way that it could. The action quota is answered, sure, but beyond some vague hints about this mysterious Naegan fellow, we come no closer to having another head villain beyond the faceless Wolf raider dudes. We got rid of no one of real consequence and even the big name, Deanna, doesn't really feel that huge of a loss now that I've had a day to process about it.
This episode is... pretty boring, to be honest. The main plot has Rick and Daryl go around scavenging for supplies, and it's not like it's not something we've never seen before. On their way they get carjacked by this dude Paul (who also calls himself Jesus, but I'm not going to do that). Who they beat up and bring into their home. Who's competent enough to apparently, off-screen, sneak past Daryl and talk to Rick post-coitus with Michonne, and knows Rick by name.
There's also been a timeskip of around... two months? So Carl immediately can get back to his feet and we thankfully don't have to sit through the obligatory episode of them rebuilding walls or crying over Jessie's death (who, really, cares about Jessie or her crazy kids?) and shit, which is definitely welcome. But they really didn't do much with the timeskip. Michonne and Rick are an item. Carl has an eyepatch, hangs out with Enid and has reverted into his older douchebag status. Michonne and Spencer have a brief moment of bonding time after they put Deanna's zombie corpse to rest.
So yeah, nothing much happened in this episode. It's trying to disguise itself as like a 'procedural' episode where things happen normally like a filler episode but it's meant to settle in the timeskip and introduce mr. Paul Rovia to us and it's honestly a bit sloppy and boring, and I really felt like they definitely could've inserted a fair more content into this episode. It's not a bad episode necessarily, not necessarily, it's just one that I just got absolutely bored. Add the absolutely poorly-written Carl/Enid scene and the episode just gets dragged down into easily the worst episode I've ever seen in a while.
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