[Editor’s Note: Spoilers for “The Walking Dead” Season 8, Episode 9, “Honor” follow.]Whose Episode Is It?Well, Carl’s the one dying, so he understandably dominates “Honor.” The good news is that “Honor” is one of the better “Walking Dead” episodes this season, with solid thematic cohesion and actual emotional stakes.
Yes, Carl’s death is dragged out over the entirety of the episode, but his death has actual meaning beyond the show’s usual slaughter, giving Rick a new direction and “The Walking Dead” a long-overdue moral compass.A Shred of HumanitySo it turns out Carl was bitten when he found Siddiq in the forest way back in “The King, The Widow, and Rick.” That means that his actions during the mid-season finale were done knowing his life would soon be over, and while that retroactively improves “How It’s Gotta Be,” it’s a shame that episode’s power was diminished in
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