The Walking Dead Season 7: 4 Ups & 5 Downs From 'Service'

Downs...

5. No Real Threat

The Walking Dead Negan
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Is someone going to die in this episode? Maybe. There's actually a very real chance that someone will be offed here, but at the same time there's no sense of threat or tension within that.

The show used up its big shock when it killed Glenn, and it's highly unlikely we're going to se anything of that magnitude again for a good while yet. We know that, for all Negan's posturing, Rick and co are relatively safe.

Even if they were to kill someone in this episode, the major candidates are Olivia and Spencer, both of whom have run-ins with Negan. No disrespect to the actors playing them, but if Negan were to kill one of them, I'm not sure many people would even notice.

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