The Walking Dead Season 7: 6 Ups And 3 Downs From 'The Well'

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6. The Opening

Much like the Season 7 premiere picked up just a few moments after the Season 6 finale, so too does The Well show how no time passed during the off-season.

Instead, we're right back into it with Morgan, Carol, and the knights of the Kingdom, continuing their path back to safety. It's a fast-paced and frenetic opening, with Morgan and his newfound friends battling a wave of walkers. It's the sort of zombie attack this show can do almost effortlessly, but gets elevated here thanks to Carol's hallucinations and a couple of nice effects from Greg Nicotero.

Carol sits out the fight, instead still injured and struggling to come to terms with what's going on. When she looks at the walkers, their faces turn into those of the living. One of the things The Walking Dead has long done well is the way it manages to continuously do inventive things with its zombies, and this is another good example of that. It's also great for Carol, showing what state of mind she's in. The walker getting its face sliced off was just the icing on this particularly bloody cake.

After that we jump forward a couple of days, which helps our introduction into the Kingdom, as Morgan gets to explain it to Carol and the audience. The introduction of Ezekiel and Shiva is one of the best first meetings of a character on the show, especially thanks to Morgan's killer line "I forgot to mention he has a tiger." It's all very effective, establishing the new community, the main characters of this episode, and the tone of it as well, while being entertaining in its own right.