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Critic Consensus: "The Well" brings a welcome reprieve from the brutality of the season premiere, introducing a colorful new character and focusing on two of The Walking Dead's most fascinating regulars.
Episode Info
Cast
as Rick Grimes
as Daryl Dixon
as Glenn Rhee
as Carl Grimes
as Michonne
as Carol Peletier
as Maggie Greene
as Sasha
as Abraham Ford
as Tara Chambler
as Rosita Espinosa
as Eugene Porter
as Gabriel Stokes
as Morgan Jones
as Aaron
as Spencer Monroe
as Negan
as Dwight
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Critic reviews for The Well
TWD plays lightly but deliberately on the obvious comparison between Negan and Ezekiel-both charismatic, theatrical, clever leaders who know that their power derives solely from the devotion of their followers.
So more horrors await us sooner rather than later, but it's nice to have the occasional respite and argument in favor of humanity.
We definitely needed a break after last week's torture, but there really wasn't much of anything happening tonight.
The show smartly puts that conversation at the end of "The Well," only it's Carol, not Michonne, who says it to Ezekiel.
In the case of "The Well," thinking smaller may mean including a wild new character and his pet tiger, but it also means getting a lot of juicy material for The Walking Dead's two best characters.
After last episode's horrific, grim exploration of just how many times you can smack a person's head with a baseball bat before it explodes, this week's Walking Dead was a significantly calmer, funnier affair.
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