Before we could see the horde invade Alexandria from every perspective, we needed to spend some time with this little kid? Really? The Walking Dead has told stories about growing up in the zombie apocalypse - sometimes with great success, as in season four's tremendous "The Grove" - but this one felt like a retread.Īnd, really, that's the problem the show as a whole is facing. Gimple's love for breaking apart stories and telling them piecemeal taken to almost ridiculous lengths. (That young boy, Sam, would later factor into the episode's cliffhanger, which I'll discuss in a bit.) But in the moment, it played as showrunner Scott M. At the end of the cold open - meant to make us shout, "Oh, my God!" and want desperately to keep watching, I'll remind you - we learned that a young boy had only eaten half of his cookie. Way back in the second week of season six, I praised the way The Walking Dead was increasingly using its cold opens - the short bits of the episode that happen before the opening credits and are meant to entice us to keep watching - to tell stories in a more artful and intriguing fashion.īy and large, this has been true, but this half-season of the show has put that to the test all the same, reaching its nadir in "Start to Finish," an unusually listless and muddled midseason finale.
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