‘The Strolling Stupid’ Premiere: Negan For plod Stepped in It This Time
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(This text contains spoilers for the Season 11 premiere of “The Strolling Stupid,” which you would possibly even inspect now on AMC+. The episode will air on cable on Aug. 22)
We knew coming into the last season of “The Strolling Stupid” that we were gonna want to make a selection an behold on Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan). Whereas nobody is on spacious colossal terms with Negan, the folks who watched him sit down in that basement for six years after which play a key position in defeating the Whisperers occupy not not as a lot as gotten to inspect him occupy a form of redemption arc. Nonetheless Maggie wasn’t around for masses of of that, so she aloof feels that very same anger over that time he brutally murdered Glen and Abraham colorful in entrance of her.
Season 11, then, begins things off by having Maggie and Negan walk on a mission together, to a series Maggie and minute Hershel stayed all the blueprint in which thru their time away. Maggie apparently insisted on bringing Negan, because he is aware of D.C. better than anybody else they occupy got. A gigantic storm pops up, although, and they also stop up taking a direction thru the D.C. Metro tunnels.
For many of the episode, Negan looks treasure he’s about to puke. No topic this apparent need for his abilities, he is aware of Maggie isn’t any happier with him than she modified into as soon as sooner than. And, sooner than, she wanted him pointless. That’s a upsetting ingredient to must take into chronicle below same old cases — unheard of much less whereas you happen to’re walking thru a zombie-infested subway tunnel all the blueprint in which thru a colossal storm. Does Maggie essentially need him? Or is she planning on pulling one thing?
Nonetheless Negan tries to be the correct guy. He speaks out, not in a mean blueprint, in opposition to the exhaust of the tunnels, since the rain is so heavy it thoroughly could per chance flood, and there’s no telling how many walkers there are down there. Nonetheless Maggie insists on sticking to the tunnel, and nobody goes to listen to Negan over freaking Maggie.
Things cease walk grisly, and our band of heroes needs to conceal in a subway vehicle by climbing on high of it and climbing in thru the roof hatch. Negan is subsequent-to-last to climb up because the zombies encompass them — and Maggie is last. Nonetheless she slips, and there are too many walkers, and because the episode ends Negan looks down from atop the vehicle, listening to her cries for support, and lawful bails.
That’s reasonably a humdinger of a cliffhanger to stop the season premiere on. There’s not unheard of chance Maggie essentially dies here — “The Strolling Stupid” would occupy gone forward and shown her die colorful here if this modified into as soon as her time.
Assuming Maggie survives this, it’s gonna be very attention-grabbing to gaze how this changes the calculus of her pink meat with Negan. Quite quite a bit of that depends on how Negan himself tries to interpret that transfer, if he has to, nonetheless this totally looks treasure one thing that potentially gained’t support him too unheard of down the dual carriageway.
And here is “The Strolling Stupid.” These forms of scenarios rarely secure to the underside of themselves in a diagram that you would possibly demand, specifically since Angela Kang took over as showrunner — the sign has been extra off-e book than ever in the past few seasons.
That being acknowledged, it could absolutely be very “Strolling Stupid” for these two to in reality extinguish every varied. And, howdy, it’s the last season. I’m fully in favor of all the carnage that Angela Kang and co. want to dish out.