The Walking Dead Season 7: 5 Ups And 3 Downs From 'Bury Me Here'

2. It Managed A Genuine Surprise

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The Walking Dead is a) in its seventh season, b) a show that has long established it'll kill off almost anyone (as long as your name isn't Rick, Carl, or Daryl), and c) a show that has typically followed the same formula each year.

Because of those three things, it's rare that it manages to spring a surprise. Even the big twist of Season 7, killing off Abraham AND Glenn, was something a lot of people saw coming.

It's nice to know, then, that the show can still manage to catch us (or at least me, but surely I wasn't the only one...) off-guard. It does this with the murder of Richard at the hands of Morgan, a genuinely surprising, horrific moment that I really didn't expect, and his subsequent breakdown. It was a shocking moment, but one that also worked well for Morgan's character.

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