The Walking Dead: Dead City
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Now were cooking with methane!
The penultimate episode ofThe Walking Dead: Dead Citygot the wheels back in motion and got a little avant-garde.
Negan and Armstrong encountered an interesting art installation.
Maggie experienced some psychedelic flashbacks and a walker unlike anything weve seen before in this universe.
New characters were introduced.
For all I know, the finale could be one big conversation.
Picking up where the previous episode ended, Maggie, Tommaso, and Amaia are joined by Ginny underground.
Theyre hidden from sight but exposed to large quantities of methane.
At first, I was frustrated by how dark the sewers were.
The last thing anyTWDshow needs is more scenes you’re able to barely see.
But the blue and red light provided by the flashlights and headlights ended up being pretty cool, visually.
Maggie vents some frustration at her.
Its a little harsh, but we still dont know this girls deal.
Maggie asks if shes trying to find Negan and advises her against trusting him.
Thats putting it lightly.
You do not know the monster that I know, she says.
But if you stick around long enough, you will.
Tommaso appears to stumble upon two oxygen tanks that the four of them can share between them.
But hes clearly lying.
Maggie sees through his bad performance almost immediately.
Amaia is still upset about the plan going awry and starts wondering who told the Burazi they were coming.
Amaia is rightfully furious.
Tommaso says that their dream of taking back the island is a fantasy.
Its very dramatic, and Maggies reaction to their fight is very interesting.
Im not really sure what shes thinking.
Maybe its been a while since shes been around people that feel this level of despair.
She offers Amaia a place in the community where she sent Ginny.
Then Maggie has a series of wild hallucinations, flashing between Glenns death and her sons kidnapping.
Havent I been through enough??
Then they could find a community with houses, and farms, and real shelter.
He wants to start a familysobad he betrays his whole community.
I guess he didnt think to just ask Maggie and Negan where they came from.
But maybe the plan to deliver his people to the Croat was already in motion.
Out of nowhere, some walkers from the piles of bodies lining the sewers attack the group.
Within minutes, both Amaia and Tommaso are dead.
Maggie and Ginny trudge on, and Maggie tries to make nice with the teen.
Is this some sickos experiment?
Maggie doesnt have time to figure that out.
Only Ginny isnt there.
The transient teen has written LIAR on the wall in blood and taken off without her.
She discovered that the grain silo was full.
The Croat didnt take their supply like Maggie keeps claiming.
Im kind of like … good for Maggie.
Beat those Girl Scout allegations that Negan keeps throwing at you.
So maybe thats why Ginny chased after Negan to warn him about Maggie.
Has this been the deal all along?
What Maggie doesnt know is that Negan is already on his way out of the city with Perlie Armstrong.
I wish they were sailing away onLittle Island.
It actually kind of looked like the thing that attacked Maggie.
Im sure thats nothing to worry about.
Well, really, just the one thing.
Armstrongs not backing down on his plan to execute him in New Babylon.
You think you know me, is that it?
Because I guarantee you you dont, Negan says, bordering on petulance.
Armstrong tells him a story about his brothers drug addiction.
Well have to wait until the finale to find out.
Finally, lets talk about what the Croat got up to.
He puts a little beanie on his head, gets in a car, and drives to a theater.
Not a bad way to spend a day in the city.
City blocks are city blocks, but I know what Broadway looks like.
Maybe, since there are columns on the outside, its supposed to be Lincoln Center.
But even that feels like a stretch.
Inside, some hooligans plunk out Anything Goes on a rehearsal piano and sing off-key.
Tragically, we dont stay with them and learn their deal.
I would simply love to know, but the Croat has places to be!
He walks backstage and through a door with a star dressing-room sign into what seems like another building entirely.
Its the largest dressing room Ive ever seen, complete with hanging lamps, stained-glass windows, and bookshelves.
It looks more like the library fromBeauty and the Beast.
Sorry to disappoint: NoBroadway dressing roomthat Ive ever heard of is that big and that nice inside.
She speaks to him in vaguely dramaturgical terms about how a plot twist has left his hero offstage.
How is it going to end, she wonders.
I am also wondering this, Miss Dama!
I have no idea how this is going to wrap up in just one episode.
The ending is all that matters, she says.
The Croat then says, of all things, ACAB.
The Dama seems to think that Negan will help them survive against the outside world.
The comparison that I think this show is trying to make with this character is with Negan.
He told Maggie that his authoritarian demeanor was all an act.
At the end of the episode, Ginny sends up a flare that Negan and Maggie both see.
Maggie may be annoyed at her, but shes my ally for hopefully drawing them to a central location.
Lets reunite our main characters and finally figure out what the Croat has planned for them now, yo!
And, uhh, maybe check in on Hershel … the reason were here?
Bridges & Tunnels
I fully forgot Negan used to be a gym teacher before the world ended.
Maybe there was a modern take before the world ended.
Maybe theyre trying to tell is the Croat is no king, just a jester.
Does methane poisoning cause hallucinations?
I do not think it does.
We dont need to call that some kind of factual error on behalf of the show.
This is a supernatural world, after all.
Maybe the zombie virus added a little spice to the methane.
