Best of 2024 TV Shows #22: The Walking Dead - The Ones Who Live (AMC)
While many thought that Rick’s exit from The Walking Dead by all counts should have ended the story we were pleasantly surprised that his story would have a continuation.
More so that Michonne would be joining him.
Now we pick things up with the miniseries that fills us on what Rick had been going through since being rescued from certain doom by Anne while being conscripted into service with the Civic Republic Military.
6 Years after losing him Michonne ends up finding Rick as he’s accepted his new life while secretly trying to alter the culture of the isolated CRM.
The couple while different from who they were previously, slowly begin to acclimate to each other once more, while forces including Anne and the general who kept Rick in line close in to keep them from returning to Alexandria.
For what was originally supposed to be a theatrical release and then a trilogy, it works a lot better in the familiar confines of AMC as we see the flashbacks and forwards Walking Dead has mastered for nearly 15 now.
While time away doesn’t keep Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira from the relationship goals they became known for on the show.
And unlike last years spinoffs this wisely keeps things contained making the reunion scene with Judith and RJ in the final moments all the more satisfying.
Rick made it home, he has his family now the true rebuild (other than waiting out the journeys of Daryl, Carol, Maggie and Negan) begins.
SUM 22: Rick and Michonne have their story together play out from reunion to return in this 6 part epilogue to Walking Dead as we know it.
