'Walking Dead' Finale: Who Did Negan Kill?

'Walking Dead' Finale: Who Did Negan Kill?
The Hollywood Reporter

Lesley Goldberg

April 3, 2016

 

AMC's The Walking Dead wrapped its sixth season Sunday with a finale that paid tribute to the comic's landmark (and shocking) 100th issue, while also failing to answer the biggest burning question on everyone's minds: Who dies?

As expected, comics villain Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) made his debut in the closing scene of the 90-minute season finale when - in a direct nod to Robert Kirkman's comic series - he lines up the survivors and, with his baseball bat covered in barbed wire (named Lucille), takes a swing at one of them.

However, the series cuts to black and the audio reveals only the brutal and savage sounds of Negan swinging and connecting Lucille with someone's skull as he beats an unseen member of the group to death. After the cut to black, the camera shifts its point of view to that of the mystery victim, but the group's screams are muffled and any name they're calling out is impossible to decipher. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6 Finale: Negan Makes His Entrance 

 

 NYT

The Walking Dead

By JEREMY EGNER APRIL 3, 2016

Season 6, Episode 16, ‘Last Day on Earth’

So now “The Walking Dead” is just messing with us.

The show wrapped up its sixth season on Sunday by welcoming arguably its most eagerly anticipated character from the comics: Negan, the sinister leader of the Saviors. He did not disappoint. Imbued with a brawny, malevolent charm by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, the character, at least in his debut, lived up to the hype in every way but one.

That exception is what everyone will be talking about for the next few days: The episode didn’t show us whom he killed. It was a surprising end to a week filled with speculation about whom the core victim would be. (Glenn and Abraham seemed to be the two most popular predictions.) So I guess the writers deserve credit for coming up with what might have been, for most of us, the only truly shocking outcome.