7 ways to fix The Walking Dead

Chill out, Negan

Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan.
(Image credit: Gene Page/AMC)

The Walking Dead has seen better days. Still, with last spring's brutal cliffhanger — seen through the eyes of the Alexandrian that the nefarious Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) bludgeons to death — AMC's The Walking Dead has set up its most highly anticipated season to date. Andrew Lincoln, who plays protagonist Rick Grimes, promised in a recent interview that the new episodes — which kick off this Sunday — are "deeper" and "darker" than ever, as the series introduces multiple societies from Robert Kirkman's and Charlie Adlard's comic books: The Sanctuary, home to Negan's Saviors, and the Kingdom, where Ezekiel (Khary Payton) and his tiger, Shiva, lead a more idyllic community of survivors.

There's a lot of promise to season 7. But there's also a lot to be worried about, given the show's stumbles over the last several seasons. So here, seven wishes for The Walking Dead season 7. (Be warned, some spoilers from the comics lie within.) Of course, the episodes are all done — there's no changing them now! But a fan can hope, can't he?

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Matt Brennan

Matt Brennan is a film and television critic whose writing has appeared in LA Weekly, Indiewire, Slant Magazine, The Week, Deadspin, Flavorwire, and Slate, among other publications. He lives in New Orleans and tweets about what he's watching @thefilmgoer.