{"id":513309,"date":"2022-11-21T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-the-walking-dead-series-finale-review-closure-but-anticlimactic\/"},"modified":"2022-11-21T06:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T03:45:00","slug":"watch-the-walking-dead-series-finale-review-closure-but-anticlimactic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-walking-dead-series-finale-review-closure-but-anticlimactic\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch The Walking Dead Series Finale Review: Closure, But Anticlimactic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3db66138f63\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3db66138f63\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-walking-dead-series-finale-review-closure-but-anticlimactic\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_The_Walking_Dead_Series_Finale_Review_Closure_But_Anticlimactic%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online The Walking Dead Series Finale Review: Closure, But Anticlimactic&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-walking-dead-series-finale-review-closure-but-anticlimactic\/#%E2%80%9CThe_Walking_Dead_Series_Finale_Review_Closure_But_Anticlimactic%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;The Walking Dead Series Finale Review: Closure, But Anticlimactic&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_The_Walking_Dead_Series_Finale_Review_Closure_But_Anticlimactic%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online The Walking Dead Series Finale Review: Closure, But Anticlimactic&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThe_Walking_Dead_Series_Finale_Review_Closure_But_Anticlimactic%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;The Walking Dead Series Finale Review: Closure, But Anticlimactic&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It\u2019s hard to talk about \u201cThe Walking Dead\u201d<em> <\/em>without talking about death. It built its reputation as a show where anyone could be killed off, and indeed, it turned over roughly a third of its cast every season in its early years. (Lest you forget them, the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> finale gives its final moments over to a montage of those we\u2019ve lost over the years.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It\u2019s been a long time since death truly drove the story forward. With multiple spinoffs on the horizon, the show struggled throughout its final season to retain the suspense of the series\u2019 salad days, when seemingly anyone could die at any time. If Maggie (Lauren Cohan), Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Daryl (Norman Reedus) are all slated to star in new series, any time their lives are purportedly in danger, the dramatic tension of whether or not they\u2019ll make it out alive has been cut off at the knees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But even with the three most visible characters in the series off the table, a cast of literal dozens made it through the final two seasons relatively unscathed. The show remained as violent as ever, but devoid of the actual sacrifice and pathos that violence would naturally stir up. Throughout \u201cThe Walking Dead\u201d final season, new characters were introduced and developed just enough to serve as sacrificial lambs with a frequency that recalled old jokes about red-shirted ensigns on \u2018Star Trek,\u2019 but the series gave its audience no time to contemplate the mortality of these characters. They died in service of furthering the plot, nothing more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It was inevitable that the series finale would require one final, epic battle against the titular zombie hordes. \u201cThe Walking Dead\u201d was always at its best when it leaned into its comic-book roots, after all, and to its credit, the episode delivers plenty of vivid, comics-worthy action, including several huge explosions and enough shots of tearing flesh and spurting blood to temporarily make vegetarians of us all.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    For all of the destruction, though, there was very little actual consequence. Rather than providing anything resembling true devastation, the finale gave us exactly one major character death. What\u2019s more, they provided it via the tried-and-true \u201cWalking Dead\u201d<em> <\/em>trope of a character seemingly escaping peril \u2014 only to dramatically lift their shirt to show the audience a stray zombie bite, then malinger for another half hour. While it\u2019s natural to want to give Rosita (Christian Serratos) a final sendoff worthy of her long tenure on the series, she frankly deserved a more spectacular exit. Her final moments were bittersweet, but not nearly as much of a gut punch as they would have been had she died in the heat of battle like the badass she was for much of the series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It\u2019s true, of course, that the plot was not driven by deaths alone, and to its credit, the finale did slightly more justice to the surviving main cast. Several individual character moments, in fact, dug deep into the show\u2019s lore and rhymed beautifully with scenes from earlier seasons. Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) began his run on the series as a cowardly priest who\u2019d shut his congregants out of his church at the dawn of the zombie apocalypse; when he risks his life to open gates and offer sanctuary to Commonwealth residents fleeing the hordes, it\u2019s a perfect full-circle moment. Similarly, Negan has evolved from the series\u2019 most bloodthirsty villain to a man who is finally able to offer true remorse for his actions, and Maggie\u2019s heartfelt response to his apology felt true to both characters\u2019 journeys. It\u2019s almost enough to believe that they\u2019d be willing to embark on further adventures together. (And, of course, they\u2019re slated to next year.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The denouement is followed by a 10-minute coda that fast-forwards a year and recalls the epilogue to the 1998 Kevin Costner vehicle \u201cThe Postman<em>,<\/em>\u201d<em> <\/em>of all things, in which the community\u2019s new leader dedicates a memorial to the fallen and ushers in a new era of peace. (This can\u2019t be unintentional\u2013one character is even shown delivering mail.) Eugene (Josh McDermitt) has started a family; Ezekiel (Khary Payton), Mercer (Michael James Shaw) and Carol (Melissa McBride) have embraced leadership roles; Daryl roams the frontier in search of adventure. If it\u2019s not the most original place to leave the story, it\u2019s at least a h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y one, and a deserved one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But we\u2019re not done yet. A <em>second <\/em>coda then attempts to give the fans what they truly wanted \u2013 the return of Rick (Andrew Lincoln)\u00a0and Michonne (Danai Gurira). Unfortunately, what should be a moment of pure excitement is undercut by the fact that it is almost entirely unrelated to the events of the previous hour.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    There is a clumsy attempt to tie them back to their children and community via a monologue that plays over the aforementioned final montage. But most of Rick and Michonne\u2019s return is given over to what can only be described as a trailer for their own upcoming spinoff, as Rick surrenders on a beach to an unseen entity and Michonne saddles up a horse in pursuit. It\u2019s hard to gauge exactly how much of an appetite remains for answering the questions this raises, but leaving things here only serves to remind us that while \u201cThe Walking Dead\u201d itself may be over, the franchise lives on. 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