'Walking Dead' boss admits he was trying to break you with the Season 7 premiere
The devastating Walking Dead Season 7 premiere left two beloved characters with their skulls bashed in and Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) pledging his allegiance to a sadistic murderer with a baseball bat fetish, and the show's producers are feeling pretty good about it all.
During this week's Talking Dead aftershow, executive producer Scott Gimple admitted that their goal wasn't just to break Rick Grimes in the premiere, but to break everyone watching at home, too.
"The hardest thing about it was, starting the script, what would break Rick? And then taking it further," he explained. "It was all in the book, in issue 100, but [we were] looking for a way to break the audience too. Not in a way that is in any way to hurt them, but for them to believe that Rick Grimes would be under the thumb of Negan; that he would go through an experience that would do that to him; and that the audience would go through the experience too, so they would believe that Rick would do what this guy says." Read more...
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