The Same Boat Asks Whether There Are Any Good Guys Left Variety. Spoiler warning Do not read on unless youve seen The Walking Dead Season 6, Episode 1. The Same Boat. When a show has been on for a few seasons and established an emotional status quo among its characters, it earns the right to give us episodes like The Same Boat, an incisive chamber piece that serves as a compelling analogue to last weeks Not Tomorrow Yet in its surprisingly deep examination of moral relativism, ably penned by Angela Kang and directed with claustrophobic intensity by Billy Gierhart. Instead of focusing on a larger group going up against the Saviors, as we saw in last weeks bombastic installment, The Same Boat gave us a chance to sit with Carol and Maggie as they argued the merits of their choices against an equally tight knit posse of survivors one that was arguably every bit as justified in their defensiveness as our group. Weve been told that the Saviors and Negan are bad news, thanks to the residents of Hilltop and Daryl, Sasha and Abrahams encounter on the road, but when you take a look at the damage inflicted so far, Ricks people have a much higher on screen body count, and far less justification to attack the Saviors than the Saviors have to harm them, given Daryls rocket launcher trick in the midseason premiere. Watch Dead Like Me Life After Death Online Hitfix WestworldThis proactive approach of do it to them before they can do it to you may be logical and even advisable in a zombie apocalypse, but overall The Walking Dead seems far less interested in delineating the line between good and bad this season than it has in years past, a narrative choice that is proving to be a creative goldmine in terms of character development. Weve seen Carol evolve from a meek and battered housewife into the hero of her own story over the past six seasons, but despite her battle hardened exterior, this is a woman who still clearly has a conscience and a conflicted soul a fact thats sometimes easy to forget, given her pragmatic outlook. While Rick is unflinchingly mutilating zombie faces and shooting men in the head at point blank range, Carol is still keeping a running tally of all the human lives shes taken and giving her enemies second chances to do the right thing, even when logic says killing them would be the safer route. While I dont believe that Rick takes these acts of violence lightly either, its been fascinating to see where each character lands on the spectrum of whether the ends truly justify the means in recent episodes. The Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 8 started the megaherd attack teased both a major death. Recap Deanna Dies, Wolf Escapes, Negan. Abraham is dead. The Walking Dead The Grove. This was not a wont someone think of the children moment Like youd. The Walking Dead Recap. Lets be honest shes looked like the walking dead for a couple. Watch the Reallife Interviews With Serial Killer. QbafWAZ9uh8f1AMpPqmaA=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/7355929/TWD_701_GP_0512_0365-RT.jpg' alt='Watch Dead Like Me: Life After Death Online Hitfix Justified' title='Watch Dead Like Me: Life After Death Online Hitfix Justified' />That these characters remain likable even when doing heinous things is a testament to the groundwork that the writers have laid over the past few years, and the show is finally venturing into territory so expertly trodden by another AMC hit, Breaking Bad, which wasnt afraid to take its hero to dark places in the name of good storytelling. While TWD often lacks the elegance of Vince Gilligans TV masterpiece, its nice to see the show tackling those thorny ethical questions without worrying too much about whether a few shades of grey in our heroes will put us off. In seasons past, its been easy to talk in absolutes Ricks group good, Governor bad. But as The Walking Dead expands its world and introduces more characters who have all found their own means of surviving this long, were finally starting to get a more nuanced look at what the cost of living is in this new world. Is one group more entitled to live than anotherHow is that worthiness determined That conflict was personified in Paula, Carols dark mirror image, who believed that shutting off her conscience made her somehow greater than she used to be. Im still me, but better, she told Carol. I lost everything and it made me stronger. The same is undeniably true of Carol, but its interesting how subjective the idea of strength is in this apocalyptic landscape Id argue that it takes far more strength to allow yourself to feel in a world where loss is a constant, relentless certainty making yourself numb might be easier, but it doesnt require much intestinal fortitude, if youre just trying to sleep at night. The Walking Dead Recap Season 6, Episode 13 sees Carol and Maggie struggling with whether theyre the good guys or the bad guys when faced with the Saviors. The Walking Dead can be as compelling as any other quiet character drama on television. That happened again in Heres Not Here, which. Dead Like Me on IMDb Movies, TV, Celebs. Hitfix. Watch Movies TV Online. Prime. Pushing Daisies centers on the life of. Bryan Fuller, intended for Pushing Daisies to be a spinoff of Dead Like Me. Watch the visual effects team bring a 2. A tragic midseason finale on The Walking Dead. One year after we saw the death of patriarch Hershel. The morning after Thank You aired and after Scott Gimples weird statement to Talking Dead. Zapruder film after. Everything in this life thats. Ricks group. was not replete with death and the dead rising. Carol, on the other hand, has been an insomniac for a long time now, and these decisions weigh heavy on her as much as she was adamant that Maggie should stay outside during last weeks episode a choice that inadvertently got them both captured, this episode crystallized the fact that Carol was probably trying to find a way to avoid bloodshed just as much as she was concerned for Maggies safety. The point isnt just to stay standing, as Maggie points out to her own twisted reflection, Michelle because the walkers do that too theyre choosing something else to try and find a better way to live than the way theyve been living up until now, whether that means opening themselves up to the possibility of love, or children, or the ideals of Alexandria that Deanna believed in. The Same Boat eventually bore out Ricks warning that everyone they let go will inevitably come back to bite them no pun intended, after Carol gave Paula multiple choices to escape rather than to pursue violence and yet still ended up having to kill her. But was Carol and Maggies decision to lure the remaining Saviors to the kill floor and burn them alive an act of resignation a concession that theres clearly no point trying to give people second chances That remains to be seen, but the events of the episode clearly took their toll in the closing moments, an emotionally drained Carol told Daryl that she wasnt good a rare moment of vulnerability while Maggie admitted to Glenn I cant do this anymore, after narrowly avoiding having her stomach slashed by Michelle. Watch Isis Rising: Curse Of The Lady Mummy Download on this page. Everyone should have a line they refuse to cross, and this season seems determined to test whether thats a hill that each character wants to die on Morgan refuses to kill under any circumstances, perhaps for the sake of his own sanity, but Glenn, who had previously been the only member of the group never to take a human life, was willing to make that sacrifice for the supposed greater good, and both will have to live with the consequences, just like Carols decision to take out the Saviors to ensure their own survival. One of the most interesting aspects of the episode was the way that a number of the Saviors decided to channel their inner Spartacus and take credit for being Negan implying that this many headed beast cant be so easily eradicated, and that this leader clearly espouses a philosophy that the Saviors believe is worth dying for. While weve heard enough from the cast, the executive producers and the comics to know that the real Negan is no laughing matter, its still interesting to consider, from a hypothetical standpoint, what it would mean if Negan wasnt real, and really was just the boogeyman that Daryl suggested he might be. Watch Search Engines Online Iflix. What if we met Negan and he was actually a nice guy, and all our characters had turned themselves into human killing monsters for nothingWould all this have been worth it Food for thought. The Walking Dead airs Sundays at 9 p.