“Wrath’s” greatest asset is its unashamedly artful visuals. It will continue to swing back and forth.
There is too much story left and the show’s only storytelling technique is that meter.
Intuitively we know that the epiphanies about non-violence the characters come to aren’t going to stick.
When taken as part of a whole, The Walking Dead Season 8 finale is a failure. But all the swinging back and forth from answer to answer dilutes the question. It’s not a question we should mind seeing on a cable show about zombies. The thing is though – that central question “when is it OK to take a life?” is kind of a big one. If it could ask better questions than “is it OK to kill?” it would have asked them by now. Thematically The Walking Dead is little more than a Philosophy 101 lesson over and over and over again.Īt this stage in the game that’s not going to change. It’s never a notch below either side and it’s never in the middle. Sometimes the meter swings far to the left and sometimes it swings far to the right.
