Welcome, at long last, to the
actual finale episode of Season 10 of
The Walking Dead! What a long and strange trip it’s been getting through this season, and this year. In tonight’s finale, we finally find out more about the one and only Negan, how he became who he was when we met him, and a glimpse at what his future may hold.
The plot: Carol takes Negan to Leah’s old cabin and tells him he’s been banished from Alexandria. Over the next day or so, Negan returns to the tree where Rick defeated but didn’t kill him, finds Lucille the bat buried in the dirt there, and reflects on his past by the fireplace. We learn that shortly before the apocalypse hit, Negan was a former high school gym teacher who got fired for an assault charge, cheating on his wife with her best friend, and on top of that Lucille was just diagnosed with cancer. They were managing to keep up with her chemo treatments with drugs and a schedule they got before things truly went to hell, but when the fr
The following contains spoilers from tonight’s episode of “The Walking Dead,” “Here’s Negan.”
AMC’s “The Walking Dead” has been a treacherous climb up a gory pyramid: The zombie-apocalypse version of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. First, the survivors addressed physiological imperatives such as hunger, then security, then cemented the bonds of belongingness. As its penultimate season concludes with “Here’s Negan” on Sunday, delivering the origin story of the series’ bogeyman played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, showrunner Angela Kang is pondering how such a person might fit at the top of that pyramid self-actualization or in “The Walking Dead’s” case, a sustainable, just civilization.
really happened to Negan s (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) late wife Lucille (Hilarie Burton Morgan) when
The Walking Dead flashes back to the earliest days of the zombie apocalypse.
Spoilers for The Walking Dead s extended Season 10 finale. Negan has over the years revealed pieces of his past when telling stories about his cancer-stricken wife his barbed wire-wrapped baseball bat s namesake once confessing to Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) that he was too weak to put her down after she died. He later told Michonne (Danai Gurira) and Alpha (Samantha Morton) about his wife s pancreatic cancer, but Negan and Lucille s tragic love story went untold until now.
Negan lives. After telling his origin story in Here s Negan,
The Walking Dead ends its extended Season 10 by teasing a next season showdown between Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan). When he s banished by Carol (Melissa McBride) amid increasing tensions at Alexandria, where the widowed Maggie now lives with her son Hershel (Kien Michael Spiller), memories of his late wife Lucille (Hilarie Burton Morgan) help Negan decide his future. The Season 10 finale ends with Negan returning to Alexandria with a swagger, a smirk and a warning from Carol: If you stay here, she will kill you. Here s Negan diverges from the comic books when the exiled Negan returns to Alexandria. Years after Maggie decided against executing Negan for killing her husband, telling him he was already worse than dead behind bars, the Rhees must now live behind the same walls as the bat-swinging bad guy who murdered Glenn (Steven Yeun).
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