The Walking Dead: Season 7

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AMC | Season Premiere Date: October 23, 2016

Starring: Michael Cudlitz, Lennie James, Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Summary: Season seven introduces King Ezekial (Khary Payton) and the Kingdom.

Creator: Frank Darabont and Robert Kirkman

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Suspense, Science Fiction

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Season 7 Episodes

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S7:E16. The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
Air Date: April 2, 2017
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S7:E15. Something They Need
Air Date: March 26, 2017
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S7:E14. The Other Side
Air Date: March 19, 2017

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Bernard Boo

Oct 23, 2016

By season 7, most series begin to lose steam or lose their identity, but The Walking Dead somehow feels as fresh, thrilling, dramatic, and exciting as it did in its early days, if not more so. The showrunners are pushing the envelope the right way, and they can get away with showing us the most disgusting, disturbing things imaginable because after seven years, frankly, they’ve earned it. Read full review

Ken Tucker

Oct 25, 2016

All in all, not a great episode, but a savage and a useful one. Read full review

IndieWire Jeff Stone

Oct 25, 2016

It was miserable, and tedious, and made me feel bad. Not in an emotionally compelling way, just in a “I could be watching something of value” way. Read full review

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mrmonster

Oct 27, 2016

No joke, the season seven premiere was quite possibly the best, most emotionally thrilling episode of any tv show I have ever seen in my life. From beginning to end, it was an emotional roller coaster.

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OzzyHxC

Dec 11, 2016

Seven seasons in, it's a welcome breath of fresh air for the show to tell the story in a new way. No longer are we sure our heroes are going to win, and sometimes we feel just like them. It's a rocky journey justified by a stellar mid season finale, and makes this show stand tall amongst itsSeven seasons in, it's a welcome breath of fresh air for the show to tell the story in a new way. No longer are we sure our heroes are going to win, and sometimes we feel just like them. It's a rocky journey justified by a stellar mid season finale, and makes this show stand tall amongst its peers after all these years… Expand

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The3rdEye

Oct 24, 2016

Negan is Why We Can't Have Nice Things...

Ah, 'tis that time of the year again. Pumpkin spice in the air and The Walking Dead brutally reminding fans, no one gets out of here alive. At the end of last season Team Rick took a path fueled mostly by hubris which ended with them on theirNegan is Why We Can't Have Nice Things...

Ah, 'tis that time of the year again. Pumpkin spice in the air and The Walking Dead brutally reminding fans, no one gets out of here alive. At the end of last season Team Rick took a path fueled mostly by hubris which ended with them on their knees before their newest arch-nemesis, Negan. As the last episode ended, we knew someone on the team had danced with their last walker.

Oh how sweet are my memories of Team Rick's escape from Terminus seasons ago. At that time, they found themselves in a similar predicament. If not for the almost Deux Ex Machina way in which Carol saved the day, our plucky group of heroes would have been Sunday barbecue. In this season premier there is no such hail Mary rescue. Negan puts his barbed-wire wrapped bat "Lucille" to savage use on the skull of one of poor bastard on Team Rick. Driven to rage, Daryl leaps upon Negan landing a solid punch to the face.

I must admit a part of me did cheer for Team Rick at that moment but it was somewhat tempered by fear. Was this the day? The day Daryl Dixon, redneck beefcake walker-killer extraordinaire, strikes his last smoldering post-apocalyptic pose! I've read many fans this summer lamented the possible loss of their precious Daryl. Alas, Negan has darker plans for our red-necked avenger so he's merely taken hostage instead. That, I fear, might actually be worst.

The sometimes frustrating, at other times necessary tendency for Team Rick characters to underestimate the situation they find themselves in becomes clear immediately after Negan gets payback for Daryl's lack of understanding. Swinging "Lucille" with amoral efficiency Negan pounds his bat into the upper forehead of a very beloved member of Team Rick. What follows is one of most tragic yet merciless scenes in the history of the show. The frustrating part I alluded to earlier takes place when Rick, smoldering with rage, challenges Negan.

Rick saw two of his long time friends become unrecognizable from the neck up yet, he doesn't understand he's beaten. His responsibility, his duty, is to the survivors of his team but he's too blinded and forgetful in his rage. Negan has shown him not once but twice he's a man with a ruthlessly simple code; do as I say or else. Both due to its necessity to move the story along and to showcase Negan's vicious assertion of dominance, Rick and his captor take a little camping trip in the RV.

They have a marvelous adventures together. Negan gave Rick an axe but when Rick tried to use it he realized he brought an axe to a gun fight. Later, Negan loses the axe and send Rick to fetch it. There were a lot of walkers outside of the RV you see and it wasn't the safest thing for Rick do. Unfortunately, Negan and Mr. Assault Rifle really wanted Rick to get the axe back. It was for sentimental reasons only but you know how psychopathic megalomaniacs are. (Yeah, I'm lookin' at you Trump! j/k We cool right? Don't sue me!) Rick reluctantly gets Negan's axe back to him. This pleases Negan. All this time he's been reminding Rick to ponder what he has lost and could yet still lose. He's hoping Rick will see things his way but Rick doesn't have the look Negan is looking for.

Returning to Negan's army from their sojourn Rick is given a secondary yet not any less traumatic version of Abraham's choice. In the end, like a Dark God, Negan intervenes sparing the one-eyed boy. Negan now sees the look on Rick which he brutally murdered and tortured for. Rick defeated is wholly under Negan's thumb.

Team Rick is left to lick their wounds and bury their dead. It is a moving scene of unity and humanity. Negan did not take those away from them although his terrorism intended to do so. In the most dire of times Team Rick comes together, changed but one can only hope, more humble and perhaps spiritually stronger.

A note about the violence and brutality of the episode. I am not surprised by it and have expected AMC to allow more rated MA story lines in the future. They are competing with entertainment giants such as HBO in a multitude of outlets. They somehow have to keep their audience interested in their content while competing with premium cable programmers. Expect more of this type of action and violence with Into the Badlands and Preacher next year. There are plenty of warnings about the graphic violence of the show. To complain about it now seems a bit silly to me.… Expand

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thedaywalker

Apr 3, 2017

With the season over i can finally give my review
This season has been average at best, with the finale being one of the best episodes i've ever watched on tv, but there were episodes that i are probably the worst episodes i've seen on tv
The premiere and finale were full of tension andWith the season over i can finally give my review
This season has been average at best, with the finale being one of the best episodes i've ever watched on tv, but there were episodes that i are probably the worst episodes i've seen on tv
The premiere and finale were full of tension and and action all over the episode and it made them the best thing this season, everywhere other episode relied on Jeffrey Dean Morgan's outstanding performance as Negan.
I understand what they set up, and i really appreciate it, but they should have found a more entertaining way to do so… Expand

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AWESOM-0

Jan 1, 2020

This season had some 8/9s and some 2/3s. I really feel if they took the best 30-40 percent of the show and condensed it, it would make for much better tv.

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CoreGamer1408

Jul 25, 2018

I have thoroughly enjoyed all the seasons so far even the slower and less impactive ones. TWD is usually a good gritty drama with quite good special effects for a TV show. The opener of this season seemed like torture porn. The rest of this whole season was annoyingly frustrating to getI have thoroughly enjoyed all the seasons so far even the slower and less impactive ones. TWD is usually a good gritty drama with quite good special effects for a TV show. The opener of this season seemed like torture porn. The rest of this whole season was annoyingly frustrating to get through this one. Could they not make a more two dimensional boring thuggish villain. Way to ham it up like full on pantomime with the smiley face Negan character. Times like this I miss the Governor who was a more sophisticated and secretive villain. The rest of cast try to do a good job even if they have only a trash comic book villain to play off against this time around.… Expand

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Radia168

Oct 4, 2017

Watch every season up to now. Love every season 1-6. Hated this season, 7. They must have changed the writers. Opener was great for the high points, but it was already starting the drag. The writers then decided to show us for 7 more episodes how badly they can write monotonous plots thatWatch every season up to now. Love every season 1-6. Hated this season, 7. They must have changed the writers. Opener was great for the high points, but it was already starting the drag. The writers then decided to show us for 7 more episodes how badly they can write monotonous plots that misplaces how every one of the main characters normally acts. Then, you add on how many mistakes each one of them, really mean, each and every one of the main characters making mistakes that are completely out of character for them. Then, somewhere in the middle, Rick wakes up and decides he he was wrong. I will be that if there was another half season of this, whoever are the writers should just be banned from Hollywood. Better yet, they should go back to the film school they went to and ask for a refund. It's almost like they went to film school and learn how to write the same thing in 100 different ways.

BY FAR, the worse of the season. I hope the producers goes back to the original writers. If not, way to go for killing a great series.… Expand

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