The Walking Dead Recap Season 6, Episode 11, "Knots Untie"

Feb 29, 2016, 05:57
The Walking Dead Recap Season 6, Episode 11,

During last week's episode, Rick and Daryl met Jesus, one of the most mysterious characters to appear ever on the show.

Finally, after months of waiting and endless speculation about what would happen next, we are about to see where the adventures of Rick and the gang takes us on The Walking Dead.

So what will happen on this week's "Knots Untie"? That's something this show has always done well.

Things get off to a rough start between the Alexandria folks and the Hilltop people, particularly in the negotiations between creepy, cowardly Hilltop leader Gregory (Xander Berkeley) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan.) As we learn about the Hilltop settlement and their interaction with Negan, we discover that Negan beat one of the Hilltop folk to death to show them all what he meant.

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Inside there are large trailers housing inhabitants, plots for crops and livestock and outdoor cooking areas. Generally, if someone's a jerk on The Walking Dead, he winds up dead, whereas Gregory isn't someone they can just leave for the zombies. He displayed extreme sexist and misogynistic behavior when negotiating with Maggie - even purposefully calling her "Natalie" - and initially refused the proposed trade alliance with Alexandria.

The two big Gregory/Maggie scenes are the highlights of this episode, for a couple of reasons. I think it's an unbelievable as we see our characters grow from civilians to the best of the best, the ones that survive.

What these two have to say to each other matters? The question now is not if they are going to settle, but what they are going to give up in order achieving the peace and civilization they've been looking for. His words hum with a self-conscious sense of enthusiasm, a certain recognition that more than just Alexandria, but the series itself, has been trapped in a sort of standstill from which it's been trying to escape. Rick, Daryl, Glen, Maggie, Michonne, and Abraham join Jesus on the road trip, leaving Carl and Carol back at Alexandria. It's interesting the way in the rest of the episode, Abraham's struggle to decide what he wants ("settling down" with Rosita or living the violent, chaotic life guaranteed with Sasha) parallels the way the entire group of survivors is deciding what they want. That's a fine thing to consider, and it's what this whole series is about, ultimately.

However, even apart from the central action, "Knots Untie" was a terrific hour of TV. Jesus vouches for Rick's group and they're allowed in with their weapons. (As wise Maggie offered darkly: "It's going to cost us.") At least now, that show has essentially revealed its endgame for the season-a bloody showdown between the Alexandrians and the Saviors. That brawl in the yard, which began with a Red Wedding-esque act of betrayal against Gregory ("Negan sends his regards") and ended with a blood-drenched Rick shrugging at the stunned onlookers was a perfectly timed demonstration of their value.

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So now, Maggie has something to trade.

"Before we get to Negan's big arrival, though, we have this week on Walking Dead. Spoilers say he'll introduce them to the Hilltop Colony and ask him to strike a trading deal with them. "Entropy comes from order". Rick and his people tie him up and go inside of a barren building to locate Jesus' people. He believes them to be good enough people, having chose to take him in rather than leaving him out in the open after their fight. Eventually though, someone needs to pick up a hammer.

 

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