The Walking Dead Season 6: 13 WTF Moments From 'Start To Finish'

Tensions are high in the mid-season finale as walkers descend, individual battles take hold, and Rick's beard FINALLY gets appreciated.

by Andrew Pollard
The Walking Dead€™s Season 6 mid-season finale was one that etched up the tension as a horde of the undead descended on the once-safe community of Alexandria. As last week€™s episode saw the community€™s watchtower collapse and take down part of the safe haven€™s walls, Start to Finish sees our group of grizzled series regulars trapped and outnumbered. Of course, Rick Grimes has a plan because€ well, because Rick Grimes. Harking back to familiar territory, Rick recreates a trick seen way back in the show€™s very first season: he decides that to escape, our group must cover themselves in undead innards. Nice. Elsewhere, tensions were brewing between Morgan and Carol, whilst the yellow-teethed, long-haired captive Wolf was an ominous presence lurking in the background of this episode€™s main narrative. By the time this suspense-filled mid-season finale came to a close, there€™d been plenty of WTF moments to take note of.

13. Sam€™s Normalcy

Whilst Sam is without doubt a creepy, creepy kid (who is totally going to be at the root of some big problems when the show returns in February), it was an eerie moment to see the semblance of relative normalcy that he has upstairs in his home. And I don€™t mean normalcy as in standard The Walking Dead norm, but as in normal in a way that existed before the undead were shuffling around every street corner. If Tip-Toe Through The Tulips (which was also freakily used throughout the Insidious movie franchise) constantly playing wasn€™t surreal enough, we then see him idly drawing a picture whilst surrounded by a fire truck and some other generic kids toys. Sure, there are ants crawling in through the window, but the rest of the scene was just that of a regular kid doing relatively regular things: something that the series has rarely shown.
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