Warning: This article contains spoilers for Sunday’s episode ofThe Walking Dead, “Promises Broken.”
Comments like:
“What the hell was that about?
You just disrupted our date!
Teo Rapp-Olsson on ‘The Walking Dead’.Josh Stringer/AMC
““You have no idea who you are talking to!
““You stupid bitch!
Look what you just did to my girlfriend.”
Josh Hamilton, Michael James Shaw, and Teo Rapp-Olsson on ‘The Walking Dead’.Josh Stringer/AMC
Keep in mind all the aforementioned remarks were utteredafterEugene and Stephanie had saved this little snot-nosed bastard’s life!
What’s his angle here?
What is this place about?”
Josh Hamilton, Michael James Shaw, Courtney Dietz, and Teo Rapp-Olsson on ‘The Walking Dead’.Josh Stringer/AMC
But so far, no harm, no foul.
So they’re kind of going along with it.
Yumiko obviously is like, “You just took my brother.
Dikran Tulaine on ‘The Walking Dead’.Josh Stringer/AMC
What is that, dude?”
And he’s like, “No, no, no.
It’s all part of a plan.”
Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan and Lauren Cohan as Maggie on ‘The Walking Dead’.Josh Stringer/AMC
Josh Hamilton, who plays Hornsby, is really fun for us to have on set.
we need to talk more about Pamela’s son.
I can’t remember if it’s said or not.
Lynn Collins, Liz McGeever, Burke Brown, and Brisco De Poalo on ‘The Walking Dead’.Josh Stringer/AMC
Can you tell us how you all envisioned this character?
But this actor, Teo Rapp-Olsson, again, think he’s great.
And again, such a sweet guy, really, really fun having him.
The costuming is so perfect on him.
Our costumer, Vera [Chow], she did an amazing job pulling together his look.
It just looks like, “I’m at a country club in the apocalypse.”
And there are times when he feels like God is not with him.
Like what does that all mean?
Is this a message of some sort?
What am I supposed to take from it?”
This person who is coming into this graveyard is not coming as an enemy, ready to kill.
What does he mean by that?
I think all of it.
In Negan’s own weird way, this is him being honest and talking leader to leader with Maggie.
I think if you’re just talking purely from a strategic standpoint, heshouldhave killed them all.
Strategically speaking, from Negan’s point of view, that did not work out well.
And not all of the people who were in the Saviors were bad.
We always thought that that was interesting.
And he was like, “But that’s what Iwouldthink.”
I was like, “Great.
So we’re on the same page.”
And Lauren had such an interesting reaction to it afterwards, too.
And it was not the performance we expected, but it’s a performance that I just loved.
It all came out of a [writers' room] discussion.
And for our heroes, there are tactics that they don’t want to use necessarily.
And we’ve learned that this can be effective with people who don’t know what’s coming.
So let’s use it.”
She doesn’t just follow orders.
She does have a heart.
She is moved by human tragedy.”
And so that starts to change a little bit of his calculus.
Okay, just one more episode left until he head into a break here.
Also, we’re going to see that things in Alexandria are being pushed even more to the brink.
But other than that, we’re trying to deliver on a big fun story line there.
Will we meet Pamela Milton in episode 8?
We will not, but she will have her entrance soon.
