[Editor’s note: Spoilers follow for “The Walking Dead” Season 9, Episode 5, “What Comes After.”]This Week On “The Walking Dead”Writing Rick Grimes off “The Walking Dead” is not an enviable task.
From the show’s opening moments, Rick Grimes has been our eyes as we watched the world slide into zombie hell.
Sure, the show became an ensemble before the end of its short first season, but through all the years Rick has been the constant; he’s the character everyone else orbits around, the one who leads, the one guy you know won’t be killed each episode (no matter how much of a drag that becomes).
But now, here we are, with Rick’s much publicized departure.
How does the show handle it?What episode writers Scott M.
Gimple and Matthew Negrete have settled on for Rick’s exit is “noble sacrifice punctuated by ‘Christmas Carol’-esque visitations from past cast members,” which
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