"The Walking Dead": There’s "Badass" – Then There’s "Maggie Badass" – Bleeding Cool News

Even with the cast and crew of AMCs The Walking Dead having wrapped work on the tenth season, life in the franchises universe has become a lot like the NFL: neither have off-seasons anymore. With a strong ensemble cast (and a Big Bad fronted by Samantha Morton in an award-earning turn as Whisperers leader Alpha) and richly layered writing, showrunner/executive producer Angela Kang did the near-impossible: made the show fresh and dangerous again and were only halfway through the season.

And we havent even mentioned Fear the Walking Dead season 6, the premiere of The Walking Dead: World Beyond, and the upcoming Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) films.

With the series set to return to AMC on Sunday, February 23, viewers have already gotten a look at what lies ahead including Michonnes return, a shirtless Negan, a Eugene/Rosita kiss, and a bloody Alpha (check it out here).

Kang and company offered fans an updated Thanksgiving easter egg image to stir up speculation ahead of the shows 2020 return as well as some wrap-up thoughts on the tension and paranoia-filled first-half of the tenth season (check those out here).

Following that was anon-set, in-production look back at this seasons first eight episodes including cast members Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Dan Fogler, co-executive producer/writer Jim Barnes, director/TWD alum Michael Cudlitz, and more.

As we headed into the holiday season, Michonne (Danai Gurira) Rick, and Negan (Morgan) offered their respective advice for living a better and more rewarding walker-filled life. Then things got very serious with a first-look image from the shows return focusing on Michonne and Virgil (Kevin Carroll), as Gurira prepares to depart the series.

But while were saying goodbye to a dear old friend, well also be welcoming back a very familar face most likely in some capacity this season. So before Michonne rides off into the sunset and Lauren Cohans Maggie (hopefully) rides in to save the day (and get caught up on a lot of stuff thats gone on since she left), heres a look back on Maggies most badass moments from the previous nine seasons:

When AMCs The Walking Dead returns for its second-half of season 10, our group of survivors are trapped some in the confines of a cave filled with walkers others, in a spiral of suspicion and grief all orchestrated at the hand of Alpha, who continues to prove the Whisperers are always watching and one step ahead of the communities. Through this conflict and all theyve lost, a few still hold onto hope, especially Eugene, who believes the mysterious voice he spoke with on the radio may lead to their world getting bigger once again.

But with the Whisperer War upon them, the collective communities must come together and possibly sacrifice all they have to find a way to silence the Whispers once and for all. Otherwise, Alpha will ensure they face a certain doom.

We didnt mince words over how impressed we were with season opener Lines We Crossed (check out our review here). Then we had Morton, Ryan Hurst, and Thora Birch raising the bar even higher with We Are the End of the World (check out our review here), offering up some Whisperers backstory.

Ghosts elevated the paranoia as Melissa McBride continues delivering an award-winning performance (that reviews here) while Silence the Whisperers proved once again why its In Michael Cudlitz, We Trust (review here).

What It Always Is had a now-free Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) beginning his redemption arc (???) while Alpha raised the stakes against our survivors (review here).

Bonds had Negan being tested, Carol (McBride) and Daryl (Norman Reedus) possibly making matters worse for the community by picking up a Whisperer, and Eugene (Josh McDermitt) reaching out and getting a response.

Open Your Eyes (review here) saw our theory about Siddiq (Avi Nash) completely, totally, and tragically put to rest. That brought us to midseason finale The World Before (reviewed here), as the drumbeats of war grew louder.

Proudly serving as TV Editor, Ray started with Bleeding Cool in 2013 as a contributing writer/photographer before being brought aboard as staff in 2017. Counting John Cusack as his pop culture "spirit animal," his "word fu" stays strong as he continues trying really hard to be the sheppard...

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