This article contains spoilers for Episode 4 of Dead City.
The latest episode of Dead City is here and we have a lot to talk about.
This is by far my favourite episode of the show so far. It’s not only full of great character moments for both Maggie and Negan but one of the best walker show downs we have seen in a while.
The episode opens with a flashback to where Negan is running the sanctuary and finds that the Croat has killed the young girl he told to let go. This is a scene which Negan has talked about and you can see the hurt in Negans eyes when he sees what has happened beneath him. This scene is parallel later on when Negan reunited with the Croat just to find out he just wants to please Negan by turning the whole of New York into a new sanctuary.
Jeffery Dean Morgan is absolutely incredible here and you can see both the hurt and fear in his face at the same time. In this moment Negan knows that all the pain and suffering that the Croat has caused is because of him and how he ran the sanctuary. It will be interesting to see how the relationship between the two evolve as on one hand you have the Croat pulling him back to his old life and then Maggie as a reminder on why he needed to change.
However one thing that did annoy me in this scene was the Marshall of it all. This is mainly because I don’t really understand what his point in the show is. He seems to be there just to slow Negan down and get in his way because even after saving his life he decides to arrest Negan in the middle of the city with no way out. I just dint really understand what he is trying to do and how he adds to the story in anyway.
I also loved the conversation between Maggie and Negan at the start as it starts to seem that they are begging to let the baggage between them fall apart. However as soon as she finds out he killed Luther her guard goes right back up and doesn’t even let him explain. I feel that Maggie doesn’t want to hear the reasonings to why Negan kills people because she is scared that she will understand why he killed Glenn all those years ago and is scared that she is more like him then she thinks.
Now we have to talk about the big fight in that arena with Maggie and the survivors and all those walkers. One thing The Walking Dead Universe has been missing as a whole lately is the danger of walkers. The final season kind of brought that back with the mutated walkers but we really haven’t seen much of them. However this episode showed us how dangerous they can be.
The Croat had set up a trap for our group as when they got into the arena he blew up the doors to let all the walkers in from the outside and by the looks of it there were hundreds. Seeing all these walkers just swarm in the arena felt fresh and made the characters actually feel like they were in danger. Every walker Maggie killed you could just feel the anger radiating off her as all she wants is her son back and is willing to do anything at this point to get this back.
That is where I feel Ginny comes in as Maggie last episode just saw her as a distraction that would prevent Negan from helping her find her son. However here when Ginny has locked herself in the cage I think Maggie realises she is just a child and doesn’t want to be the type of person to let a child die.
Through this whole show so far we have seen Maggie blur the lines of what is right and wrong as she is being pushed to the edge to get her son back but at the same time has Negan there and is a sort of reminder about what she could become.
Overall I absolutely loved this episode and I’m even more excited for the next one as it seems we have that massive walker abomination creature from the trailers.
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