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    The Walking Dead Series-Finale Recap: Unfinished BusinessThe Walking Dead has ended, but the franchise isn’t going away anytime soon.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Last Train to CommonwealthWith only two episodes left, there’s no time for anything but action.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Trials and TribulationsWe’re back to the old question of whether or not Negan has really changed.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Train ReactionFamily ties are stronger than zip ties (especially those cheap ones Maggie wiggles out of pretty easily).
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Uncivil DisobedienceCarol and Daryl, back in action.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Evolutionary WarSmart Walkers are here.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Teach the Children WellDaryl and Judith get in some quality daddy-daughter bonding in a chapter that is at its core about parents and children.
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    The Walking Dead Midseason-Premiere Recap: Beginning of the EndIntriguing opening tease aside, so far part three is idling when it should be revving up.
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    The Walking Dead Midseason-Finale Recap: My WayThe midseason finale is tense, but more is expected from the ending of part two.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Lance, A LotWith one more episode to go before another midseason break, TWD hustles to tie its multiple storylines together.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Gut UpAnother action-packed episode perfectly balances surprising twists and character moments, which is The Walking Dead at its best.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Stranger DangerTWD continues the haves-versus-have-nots theme, but cranks up the action and dives into what is going on inside the Commonwealth.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: The Price Ain’t RightEugene and Maggie find themselves facing some serious introspection.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: CSI: CommonwealthIs the Commonwealth all it’s cracked up to be? Connie, Carol, and Eugene investigate.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Eat the RichDaryl seems destined to make a tough choice between keeping the kiddos happy and serving a corrupt regime.
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    The Walking Dead Midseason-Premiere Recap: Reaper MadnessThere’s no debate that it’s Maggie who is the most ruthless survivor.
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    The Walking Dead Midseason-Finale Recap: Family TiesThe Reapers take center stage in this relentlessly fast-paced first-third finale, but let’s not forget the Commonwealth.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Walk Like the DeadDespite the weirdness of the Commonwealth and a plan to take down the Reapers, this week’s episode is mostly a disappointing bit of filler.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: Walking in The SpiderwebsThe whole house sequence is arguably one of TWD’s best moments of genuine horror and suspense.
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    The Walking Dead Recap: A Tale of Three CitiesThe Commonwealth is a weird, impregnable utopia, so you just know it’s hiding something creepy and dangerous.
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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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