Whoa, OK. How we doing, guys? You alright? Maybe sit down for a bit? Take some deep breaths. We’re all gonna get through this.
Yeah, so that was as brutal and wrenching an hour of television as we’re ever likely to see. And it had to be. Because the point of this season 7 premiere was to show Rick—and by extension us—that nothing is ever going to be the same now. Just like the zombie apocalypse came and changed everything for everyone, the lives of our heroes will now be divided into the era before they met Negan in the woods, and the era after it.