The Walking Dead Season 7: 5 Ups And 2 Downs From 'New Best Friends'

1. The New Community Is Kinda Ridiculous

After surrounding the Alexandrians last week, we finally get to learn just who this group is. A junkyard crew led by Jadis (Pollyanna McIntosh), they're one of the weirdest groups we've ever met on the show, at least based on first impressions.

All of the junkyard stuff with the group, known as the Scavengers (but not like the version of that group from the comics, who to an extent became the Wolves on the show), plays like Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, but it's a bit too weird to work here. The majority of the group are silent, and Jadis communicates to them with weird hand symbols. When she speaks, it's Yoda-esque, or else simple names like the "Up Up Up".

It all just felt a bit off to me, especially given we're only a few years into the zombie apocalypse. The majority of people here seem to have surrendered a lot of their human nature, not just in what they'll do but the fact that they're uncommunicative, choose to live among garbage, and generally seem like they were born into the apocalypse and have never known anything different. Maybe over time some light will be shed on this that makes it work, but so far it's a bit too weird and random, even within the context of this show.

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