But I still marvel at the fact that Negan is so sympathetic and likable despite having butchered one of the show’s most beloved characters in one of the most gruesome death scenes in television history. On the one hand, Carol is now so annoying that I’m inclined to dislike any decisions she makes. Such is the thanks Negan gets for aiding Carol in overthrowing the Whisperers. The setup for Negan’s stroll down nightmare lane comes courtesy of Carol, whose solution for the cut-it-with-a-knife tension between Neegs and Maggie is to ship him out of A-town to a remote cabin (funny how there never seems to be a shortage of horror-movie-ready cabins around here). So instead of a jerk who gets jerkier, the television Negan turns out to be a deeply flawed but essentially good-hearted dude who lost the one thing he cared about, never forgave himself for it, and took out his pain - and his shame - on everyone else. After his first appearance in the season-six finale, Jeffery Dean Morgan said he imagined Negan was the “dick” you knew in high school, and that he “didn’t turn into this in one day.” But being rotten to the core doesn’t make for a sympathetic antihero, especially one who’s married to the saintly Lucille. I spent a minute looking back at what we already knew of Negan’s history before the apocalypse and learned that in the comics, he was always an asshole.
All rights reserved.As lousy as last week’s episode was, the much-anticipated Negan origin story is that excellent, living up to its considerably great expectations.
#WALKING DEAD FINALE SERIES#
Now we put this series up on the mantel as a reminder of the excellence we all aspire to every day.”Ĭopyright © 2022, ABC Audio. In a celebratory statement, AMC Studios President Dan McDermott thanked the fans for watching and the creators of the show, saying in part, “We are so proud to have been the home of Better Call Saul for all these years and unforgettable seasons.
The show heads into September’s Emmy Awards with seven nominations, including Outstanding Drama, and respective Outstanding Actor and Supporting Actress noms for Odenkirk and Rhea Seehorn, who plays Kim Wexler, the lawyer love interest to the actor’s attorney Saul Goodman. What’s more, AMC points out that Better Call Saul’s audience grew 70% with every successive episode this final season since its start on April 18, and the last show had some 24 million engagements on social media.īetter Call Saul ended its run as the third-most-watched cable drama for this season, behind only Yellowstone and The Walking Dead, the latter of which also airs on AMC. The 2.7 million number represented Nielsen Live+3 ratings, meaning people who watched the show live, and those who recorded it and watched within three days of its on-air premiere. The final episode of the Bob Odenkirk-led, multiple Emmy-nominee show was the most-watched episode on AMC since the season 3 finale on June 19, 2017. Last week’s finale of Better Call Saul drew 2.7 million viewers for AMC, on both the cable network and its streaming service, AMC+. Fans apparently took the AMC show’s titular advice and called Saul.
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