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    The Walking Dead Recap: Burning ManDaryl and Dog have a fiery reunion with Leah and meet the Reapers’ mysterious leader, Pope.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Horse WhisperingMaggie and Negan are going to need to figure out some sort of uneasy alliance if they want to make it out alive.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Ice Ice BabySo the Commonwealth seems real in all its structured and secured mini-state glory.
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    The Walking Dead Season-Premiere Recap: A Frenemy in NeedMaggie sets the crew on a dangerous path where certain hell awaits on the other side.
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    The Walking Dead Season-Finale Recap: Jukebox AntiheroThe much-anticipated Negan origin story lives up to its considerably great expectations.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Carol and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad DayCarol and Daryl arrive at a fork in the road, and while it diverges in the wood, the paths they take make no difference whatsoever.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: The Not-So-Good PlaceAn intimate Princess close-up also provides a tantalizing morsel of insight into the military outfit that’s holding her and her new pals captive.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Game NightAfter a slow start, this dark, depressing side quest turns out to be the most compelling season-ten bonus chapter so far.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Dog DaysIn flashback, our favorite bow-hunting brooder grapples with his complex relationship with Carol in parallel with a mystery woman he met in the woods.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: New Sheriff in TownThe extended tenth season kicks off with Hurricane Maggie blowing into A-town, with force.
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    The Walking Dead Season Finale Recap: Delayed GratificationAfter a six-month delay, the much-needed end of the Whisperers is finally upon us.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Princess DiariesYour enjoyment of this penultimate TWD chapter mostly depends on your tolerance for one Juanita Sanchez.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Who’s Your Alpha?Alpha may be dead, but she’s finally found a home inside Carol’s head.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Michonne AbidesIs this the most satisfying sendoff for everyone’s favorite self-taught swordmaster? Maybe not, but it leaves open a door to a much larger world.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Strange BedfellowsWith a kiss good-bye and a twist of the knife, this show about the dead has suddenly found new life.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Getting MedievalIf Negan’s hiding a secret loyalty to the A-Town Alliance, then he’s also the Daniel Day-Lewis of the end times.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Killing Me Not-So-SoftlyWe hit pause on whatever’s going on with Negan and Carol for a welcome and unexpected showdown between two of this show’s badassiest badasses.
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    The Walking Dead Midseason-Premiere Recap: You Can Leave Your Mask OnAs Negan and Alpha get uncomfortably close, Daryl’s search party deals with yet another rash and stupid action from Carol.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Mercy and WrathA tense, satisfying midseason finale gives us an accounting of Dante’s sabotage, a Michonne side mission, and one horde of a cliffhanger.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Doctor SleepFor everyone who felt something was a little off with Dante, we now (sort of) know why.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Bend the KneeFriendships are tested, a surprising alliance is forged, and things get kinky in Whisperville.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Back in BlackNegan is on the loose, and seems ready to drop his turn-the-other-cheek philosophy.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: The Masks They WearBig moves by Alpha and Negan turn the cracks in Hilltop and A-Town into chasms.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Seeing ThingsEven as zombies lay siege to A-Town, it’s the terrors of the mind that dominate this episode.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Monster’s BallA flashback to the Whisperers’ origin story reveals Alpha’s talents as a master manipulator.
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    The Walking Dead Season-Premiere Recap: The More Things Change …Even at Oceanside, the livin’ ain’t easy.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Snow DayAlpha’s massacre casts a long, dark shadow, as the survivors simultaneously come together and split apart in a season-ending blizzard.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Heads UpAlpha proves she’s even more deranged and dangerous than anyone thought, resulting in the best episode in a long time.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Suffer the ChildrenMichonne and Daryl remind us why they top the list of characters still worth rooting for, in an episode that sets up a sprint to the season finale.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Faire PlayAs Daryl’s rescue party deals with the fallout from an old threat, Zeke’s faire is confronted with a new one.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: You Come at the Queen, You Best Not MissZeke’s Faire is gonna be an apocalyptic Fyre Festival.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Hearts of DarknessThe standoff between Hilltop and the Whisperers ends not with a bang, but a slap.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Alpha BitsLydia’s story of growing up in the shit-hits-fan era turns out to be more complex and tragic than expected.
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    The Walking Dead Midseason Premiere Recap: A New Sheriff in TownAs Daryl and Michonne try to get to the bottom of the Whisperer threat, an escaped Negan takes a first step on the road to redemption.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: A New HorrorThe season hits the halfway mark in grisly fashion, with a shocking death and a revelation that raises the stakes for the final eight episodes.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Welcome to Camp DixonAn episode light on zombie chaos gives us a better look at Camp Dixon, but ends up offering more questions than answers.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Grave New WorldThere are some major developments among the survivors in an episode that highlights how much things have changed in the AG (After Grimes) era.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Good-Bye, Rick Grimes“What Comes After” delivers a huge game-changer of an ending.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Can’t Let GoMaggie and Daryl’s plan to kill Negan leads to some unexpected consequences as a pair of herds approaches.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: And Justice for All?Old antagonisms and unsettled business resurface as Rick busies himself trying to build a bridge.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: A Farewell to ArmsAn infrastructure project becomes the backdrop for tension between the series’ various camps as Rick converses with an old antagonist.
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    The Walking Dead Season-Premiere Recap: Rebuilding Ain’t EasyThe series tries for a fresh start with a season premiere focusing on the challenges of rebuilding society after a devastating war.
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    The Walking Dead Season-Finale Recap: Same As It Ever WasIt’s time for The Walking Dead to shake things up radically.
  44. Here’s What Happens to Negan in The Walking Dead Season FinaleThe good news: We get a definitive answer to Negan’s fate.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Dear Poppa“Worth” sets the stage for a violent finale.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Get to the Chopper!That was one of the all-time most disturbing TWD death scenes.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: The Widow RheeIt’s finally time for the assault on Hilltop.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: The Not So Fast and FuriousIt’s looking like Negan’s reign is almost over.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Swamp ThingsNegan is ready to rain down zombie guts on Hilltop.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Already LostWill Rick regret not showing mercy to Jadis?
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