From The Hollywood Reporter · Josh Wigler · · 1m 20s
Maggie and Negan finally get it right
Dead City's third season pulled off the thing a decade of Walking Dead history said was impossible.
In brief
Dead City's third season pulled off the thing a decade of Walking Dead history said was impossible. You can rebuild a relationship without pretending the original wound never happened. Originally reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
Spoilers ahead
Everything here comes from "Tenebrae," the season three finale of The Walking Dead: Dead City. Turn back now if you have not watched it.
New York is buzzing
There is a charge running through the city right now, and everyone can feel it. It belongs to the real New Yorkers and the fictional ones in equal measure.
“There's an energy zipping around New York City these days.”
The undead get it too
Dead City is the AMC franchise's Manhattan spinoff, and its version of that energy runs through zombies as much as people.
“that energy's zipping around real-life and fake-life New Yorkers alike”
Two old enemies
Lauren Cohan's Maggie and Jeffrey Dean Morgan's Negan anchor the show. Their rivalry has been running on screen for roughly ten years.
Repair without erasure
Season three spent its run rebuilding the relationship between them, and it never fully closed the wound that started the feud in the first place.
“without fully healing the wounds that incited the rivalry in the first place”
Somehow it landed
A decade of bad blood is hard to write your way out of. The season did it anyway, and the finale is the best the franchise has produced in years.
“and somehow, they pulled it off”
What matters most
You can rebuild a relationship without pretending the original wound never happened.
