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The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live – Episode 6 – The Last Time

“Love doesn’t die. LOVE… DOESN’T… DIE!”

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Well, that’s over. A plotline that’s been six years in the making, stretching across no fewer than four TV series, with details eked out crumb by crumb, has finally come to an end. Was it a satisfying one?

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live – Episode 2 – Gone

“My name is Michonne. I lost someone. Years ago. But I just found out that he might… I just found out that he’s alive.”

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As expected, after last week’s focus on Rick, this second instalment of The Ones Who Live was a Michonne-centric episode, catching us up on how the other half of TWD’s power couple found herself confronting her long lost beloved in the aftermath of shooting down his CRM helicopter.

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live – Episode 1 – Years

“We don’t die. We’re the ones who live.” – Michonne, The Walking Dead season 8

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I used to love The Walking Dead.

Sure, it had a shaky start. A fairly assured first season of an economic six episodes was followed by a draggy second of thirteen, in which the characters stood around arguing on a farm and occasionally a zombie showed up. But by the third and fourth seasons, with the group ensconced in the prison and at war with David Morrissey’s charismatic Governor, the show had truly found its feet and was compulsive viewing.