Was anyone remotely surprised Eric got shot, either? I doubt it, considering this particular event was signposted more clearly than most major international airports. And while their plan – killing Saviors and waiting for the fallen to turn into Walkers – wasn’t terrible, the fact that, eight years into a zombie apocalypse, it came as a shock to the Saviors that dead people turn into zombies makes them some of the most profound idiots in the history of the observable universe. Aaron and Eric’s Mad-Max-esque assault on an encampment showcased some of the most wildly inaccurate televised shooting since The A-Team. But more on this later.Įach strand of the story offered a different type of action, and each succeeded in its own way, while also hurling a healthy dollop of inexplicable stupidity into the cocktail.
And we got Morgan prowling the halls of a Savior compound popping caps in asses with incongruous ease, having somehow discovered the secret of invincibility. A visceral fight to the death for Rick, which ended with the most brutal takedown he’s unleashed since he extracted someone’s jugular with his teeth.
The showrunner, Scott M Gimple, promised war this season, and for the second week running that’s precisely what we got. Any worries we were in for a quiet, faintly irritating hour spent locked in a cramped trailer with Negan (as he says things like “ah, shucks” and “well, lookie here” to an uncontrollably defecating Gabriel) were immediately put to rest. In the place of the time-hoppy structure of Mercy, we got sashays between several different simultaneous raids on Savior settlements. Though action-heavy, The Damned was a very different beast from Mercy, eradicating many of the structural niggles of its preceding episode while – in classic and inevitable Walking Dead style – introducing no small number of its own. Picking up right where last week’s logically spurious yet enjoyable opener left off, The Damned, if nothing else, managed to buck The Walking Dead’s years-long rhythm of a blistering premiere followed by six episodes of boring, endless, howling-into-the-abyss nothingness.
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