- #Walking dead season 8 episode 1 full online free series#
- #Walking dead season 8 episode 1 full online free tv#
#Walking dead season 8 episode 1 full online free series#
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#Walking dead season 8 episode 1 full online free tv#
Here are some of the highlights selected by The Times’s TV critics: Television this year offered ingenuity, humor, defiance and hope. But from beyond the veil, Henry looms larger to the surviving characters than ever, an undeniable symbol of the infectious rot of the soul that these inhumane times spread like plague.Ĭarol and Morgan have spent recent installments quietly concerned that violence has estranged Henry from his own humanity, represented here by Morgan’s disturbing hallucinations of a bleeding Gavin telling him, “You know what it is.” (We may safely presume that the spectral Gavin means this as a nebulous prophecy, and not in the hip-hop sense.) As everyone readies for a cataclysmic reckoning, Ezekiel and Carol both agree that arming Henry would be wrong, and that whatever grains of the boy’s innocence still remain must be preserved. Of course the situation gets away from him, and of course he becomes a victim to the ensuing melee. His death has a somewhat sounder karmic justification than the needless martyring of Grimes the younger - Henry stupidly opened the gate containing the prisoners in a poorly-thought-through effort to take revenge on his parents’ murderers. The characters will be sorting through the aftermath of this episode for weeks to come, because once again, it takes the death of a child to wake up the leathery-tough adults to all the collateral damage their war games have wrought.Īfter tentatively bonding with Carol and Morgan over the past few episodes, a surefire sign that the boy is doomed, Henry joins Carl in the juniors section of the afterlife this week.
Difficult as Carl’s death might have been, it left a bruise on Rick still present even in this episode, and the protracted nature of his pain makes it feel real. This week’s episode brings several long-percolating situations to a head, making the kind of lasting, substantive changes that a show struggling to create a sense of permanence badly needs. A related proposition is also often true: The more irritated an audience is with the setup, the more satisfying the release.
But regardless of whether a viewer appreciates the buildup or just wants everyone to get to the darn fireworks factory, the climaxes in this model of storytelling must eventually create a catharsis so satisfying that it retroactively validates all the narrative heel dragging. That ‘The Walking Dead’ has chosen to be a largely anticipatory TV show, building to a single climactic conflict at a slow-burn pace, has been agreeable to some and agonizing to others. Season 8, Episode 13, ‘Do Not Send Us Astray’