The Walking Dead Season 7: 3 Things 'Sing Me A Song' Got Right (And 4 It Got Wrong)

Got Right...

3. It At Least Attempted To Intercut Storylines

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Watching The Walking Dead this year has been incredibly frustrating. Episodes have dragged on, storylines expanded where there's no real story to tell. The cause of much of this - though itself a symptom of the show having to fill 16 episodes - is instalments contained to a singular location.

Sing Me A Song gets points, then, for trying to diverge away from that. After the woods, the Kingdom, Sanctuary, Alexandria, Hilltop, and Oceanside, the episode breaks things up a lot more here. We've got Negan and Carl at both the Sanctuary and Alexandria, and various subgroups off scavenging in different locations.

It's still not doing the best it can with the stories and characters it has, but it's a start. It was nice to have an episode that mixed it up, and wasn't just an hour of one character in one place.

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