Instead of trying to fit as many small plots as possible, like pilot fish to the big shark of the season-long story, The Walking Dead has been practicing some restraint. What I mean by this is perfectly apparent in Chokepoint. It’s a testament to how good an addition The Whisperers have been, along with B-plots like the quest for the projector bulb, that The Walking Dead is finally acting like a show again. I genuinely think that if it hadn’t been for Andrew Lincoln’s exit from the show, as well as how wholly unsatisfying the bait and switch nature of that exit, that season nine would be the best season of The Walking Dead for a long time certainly the best since I began my coverage of the show. After apparently clearing the table after the defeat of Negan, the show put together a satisfying story of what such a grand victory, along with the consequences of said victory, would look like. Season nine of The Walking Dead may be the most bizarre collection of episodes in the show’s increasingly long history.
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