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The Walking Dead Season 6 FINALE Last Day on Earth

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The Walking Dead Season 6 FINALE Last Day on Earth

So now “The Walking Dead” is just messing with us.

The show wrapped up its sixth season on Sunday by welcoming arguably its most eagerly anticipated character from the comics: Negan, the sinister leader of the Saviors. He did not disappoint. Imbued with a brawny, malevolent charm by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, the character, at least in his debut, lived up to the hype in every way but one.

That exception is what everyone will be talking about for the next few days: The episode didn’t show us whom he killed. It was a surprising end to a week filled with speculation about whom the core victim would be. (Glenn and Abraham seemed to be the two most popular predictions.) So I guess the writers deserve credit for coming up with what might have been, for most of us, the only truly shocking outcome.

But that will most likely be of little comfort to viewers who already had their patience tested by Glenn’s nondeath this season. Many wondered if that was a sort of prelude to the Negan murder, one intended to either foreshadow Glenn’s departure or perhaps misdirect viewers. (My own personal, perhaps not totally sane conspiracy theory was that the show was focus-group testing Glenn’s death. Robert Kirkman told me I was wrong, for what it’s worth.)

Turns out Glenn’s Dumpster dive was telegraphing the show’s delight in jerking around its fans, as well as a promise of more to come.

I realize there’s a rich history of season-ending cliffhangers on TV. But as with the Glenn thing, I think the story and in this case, Negan’s otherwise enjoyably malicious debut, is overshadowed by the trickery. Which is a shame and also oddly self-defeating, when you consider that Negan’s arrival has been the development everyone associated with the show has been dangling since last fall.

Throw in the fact that even the actors claim to be in the dark, and it doesn’t take a conspiracy theorist to wonder to what extent the move was a cop-out, a way to put off dealing with the issue until Season 7.

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