There’s A Sad Callback Coming On ‘The Walking Dead’

The show’s chief content officer, Scott Gimple, confirms this episode is gonna be hella sad.
Dear “Walking Dead” fans: If you haven’t already heard, Carl (Chandler Riggs) is dying this week.

So say goodbye to that guy. No more pudding. No more cowboy hats. Carl is dead. He’s dead, dead, dead.
But a simple death is never enough for “The Walking Dead.”

They’re going to drag this one out.

We already know the show’s midseason premiere is going to be extra long ― reportedly 82 minutes ― and that it’s going to send Carl off into the sunset as he dies a slow, agonizing death from a zombie bite.

If that doesn’t sound cheery enough for you, there’s going to be a sad callback in the episode, too.Carl got his deadly bite in Season 8, Episode 6, “The King, the Widow, and Rick,” when he was killing zombies with Siddiq (Avi Nash).

Siddiq’s mother apparently believed that killing zombies would free their souls, so Carl helps Siddiq kill some zombies in honor of his mother.

Unfortunately, Carl’s decision to do so leads to his demise.

On the surface, this seems like a really dumb way for Carl to die. After all, he’s been around since Season 1, and still has a lot of story from the comics that the show hasn’t yet touched on. If you dig just a little deeper, yes, the plot turn is still dumb (can’t fix that), but it also seems to have a connection to Carl’s mom, Lori Grimes (Sarah Wayne Callies).

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