5 Things The Walking Dead Season 5 Needs To Do Over The Next 8 Episodes

By Brent McKnight | Published

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Walking DeadSeason 5 of The Walking Dead is about to return from a long winter’s nap for the back eight episodes of what may be the strongest season yet for AMC’s hit zombie drama. While it is a different world from a couple of years ago (I was so frustrated with season 3 that I almost stopped watching), there is still room for improvement, and some things the series needs to do to maintain the momentum they’ve built and deliver a satisfying conclusion.

The way The Walking Dead stages things, each half of a season, while connected to the overall narrative, serves as a kind of soft reboot, a separate arc—this seems to stem from the episodic nature of Robert Kirkman’s comics that serve as the source material. The rest of season 5 looks to follow this trend, and in that spirit, here are some of the things we want to see Rick and the rest of the survivors do and experience throughout the rest of the season.

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Get Somewhere

For as much time as The Walking Dead has spent on the road over the years, they haven’t gone all that far. They’ve never left the state of Georgia, and while the Peach State is fine, there’s a whole big world out there to explore and surely there are other survivors that aren’t psychopaths or cannibals. It’s also time for them to settle down, to find a place to lay the roots they’ve been talking about for years and start to build.

They’ve fallen into a pattern of hunkering down for a while then being forced to move on, and it’s getting repetitive. You can only pull that off so many times. Throughout season 5, there have been hints of a walled community—many comic readers presume it is a version of the Alexandria Safe Zone—and while we’re in no hurry for them to get there, they need to at least arrive by the end of the season. To dangle this out there and not deliver is too much of a tease not to pay off.


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