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Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 3 "Monsters" REVIEW

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Channel: ACONNECTIONTV · 2017 · Entertainment

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Walking Dead Season 8 Episode 3 "Monsters" REVIEW

AMC’s description for last night’s episode, “Monsters,” is punctuated by the closing line “Morality proves tricky in wartime.” That a TV listing would have to reminder viewers that full-blown human conflict leads to ethical murkiness is, on its face, comical. But for a show about living in a zombie apocalypse, the statement is both a reiteration of the show’s overarching theme, and a glimpse at how the writers may handle the messy Negan storyline. This season, Rick and the other groups have Negan on the run, and they’re hunting down every last Savior they can to end the threat once and for all. But that involves making hard choices, beyond just “kill or be killed.”

The Walking Dead has spent years with Rick Grimes and his friends slowly working towards something resembling stability. They’ve cycled through the deterioration of societal norms, relationships, and personal boundaries, before finally exploring the restoration of those concepts. The show is now at a point where the remnants of society are trying to rebuild, and The Walking Dead wants us to believe that Negan is absolute evil, while Rick and the others are righteous and good. But in “Monsters,” the show instead gets more serious about blurring the line between the two — even while lacking any on-screen appearances from its big villain.

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