The Walking Dead Season 7: 5 Ups And 3 Downs From 'Go Getters'

2. Too Much Of Gregory

I'll preface this by saying that Xander Berkeley is very good at playing Gregory, and easily does everything asked of him.

Gregory isn't necessarily a bad character, it's more just how he's used here - and how much of him we see. It hits the whole 'cowardly leader' angle in the cold open, and then proceeds to go over and over it again. Even if Berkeley is good at doing it, it doesn't stop the act from feeling tired when we're seeing it examined multiple times in the same episode, without any real progression either. By the end of the episode, Gregory is still at least partly in charge, even if a couple of others have stepped up alongside him.

It also begs the question of how he got the position in the first place, and how he's held on to it. Even accepting Hilltop isn't the strongest community, Gregory is clearly a weak and cowardly leader, and there doesn't seem much reason to keep him around now.