The Walking Dead Turned a Beautiful Episode Into a Brutal Lesson
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Admittedly, the primary portion of
The Walking Dead’s educational plan is telling its students that in the case of a zombie apocalypse, almost everyone will turn into killers if not monsters (literal or figurative). And after a quiet, languid, enjoyable story focused on getting to know more about two of the show’s biggest characters (by default),
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Robert Patrick made a big entrance on TWD before getting killed off in one episode.
Patrick tells Insider he thinks Father Gabriel made the wrong choice.
It doesn t look like Robert Patrick will be back any time soon on The Walking Dead.
After making his debut on Sunday s episode, One More, as a troubled and seemingly chaotic survivor of the apocalypse named Mays who held Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) and Aaron (Ross Marquand) at gunpoint, the Terminator 2 actor was swiftly killed by Gabe just as it appeared that he may be turning over a new leaf.
Gabriel justified killing Mays to a horrified Aaron who had just told Mays he should trust them claiming they couldn t take him with them when he killed his brother s family.
The latest episode of The Walking Dead continued rolling out the pandemic-safe expansion of the show’s 10th season, and served up a self-contained thriller starring Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) and Aaron (Ross Marquand) plus genre legend guest star Robert Patrick.
Admittedly, the primary portion of
The Walking Dead’s educational plan is telling its students that in the case of a zombie apocalypse, almost everyone will turn into killers if not monsters (literal or figurative). And after a quiet, languid, enjoyable story focused on getting to know more about two of the show’s biggest characters (by default),
The Walking Dead decided to hand out a pop quiz.
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About 8/9ths of “One More” was an excellent, thoroughly enjoyable episode of
The Walking Dead. For most of it, I couldn’t help but wonder if being forced to minimize their episodes to small, focused stories has been a really good thing for the show. After the constant, epic bombast of the Saviors and the Whisperers, I’m really enjoying these low-key stories that focus on just a handful of characters. This time, it’s Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) and Aaron (Ross Marquand), and the episode helps reveal and develop their characters more in 45 minutes (of commercial-fr