‘Walking Dead’ Spoilers: Who Dies In The Season 6 Premiere?
While fans of The Walking Dead have been getting their Sunday night fix with AMC‘s spinoff, Fear the Walking Dead, hard-core fans are ready to get back to the real thing. Season 6 of The Walking Dead premieres Sunday with a 90-minute episode, and whispers already of a major character death to start the season off right, or at least “right” in the eyes of the creative team behind the zombie cult phenomenon.
If you want to avoid Walking Dead spoilers, this is where you should stop reading.
Hypable dished on a screener of The Walking Dead Season 6 premiere and they confirmed someone will die on the first episode. But then, an episode of The Walking Dead with character deaths is pretty much a given these days. But who will it be? The spoilers listed in the article include an epic moment coming between Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) where it looks like the turncoat priest is going to get what he has coming. Could Father Gabriel be about to meet his maker?
MoviePilot also revealed that Executive Producer and make-up artist Greg Nicotero directed the first episode of Season 6 and used a new format twist, telling two stories simultaneously while mixing current action with flashbacks. Last season, Nicotero mixed in some surreal imagery when Tyreese (Chad Coleman) met his untimely end, creating one of the most heart-wrenching and poignant deaths of the series for many Walking Dead fans.
They also revealed in their “spoiler-free review” that Walking Dead fans can expect more zombies this season than they are used to seeing — a lot more zombies. While the last few seasons of The Walking Dead have emphasized the human threat, the zombies crank up the intensity with huge packs of flesh eating ghouls for Season 6.
For Walking Dead fans expecting an appearance by the big bad Wolves, you might be a little disappointed in the first episode, where the Wolves are nothing more than a “side note,” according to MoviePilot, and definitely not the main course for the premiere.
Of course, Walking Dead fans can expect all their favorite characters to be lurking around their post apocalyptic paradise, with Rick teetering on the brink of madness, Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) doing his “still waters run deep” schtick, and Carol (Melissa McBride) baking cookies and terrorizing small children, but each season, The Walking Dead promises fans a story arc that’s bigger, badder, and better than the season before.
HNGN sat down with Josh McDermitt, who plays Eugene on the show, to try to pry some Season 6 secrets out of him.
“They’re trying to reinvent the show every eight episodes so it doesn’t become stale… This season is no exception in how big and awesome it’s going to be. We say it every year but we mean it, this is going to be the best season that the show has done. There’s so many more Walkers and its going to be massive and enormous. It literally feels like a roller coaster.”
As intense as The Walking Dead can get at times, the comic relief delivered by Eugene and his legendary mullet serves a bigger purpose and isn’t as far-fetched as some may think, according to McDermitt. In fact, while Walking Dead fans may laugh at Eugene, he just might be a little closer to home than they want to admit.
“I kind of feel like most people would be Eugene in the apocalypse. We all want to think we’d be Daryl or Carol or Michonne and we’re going to have those people if and when the apocalypse happens. But I feel like most people are going to be ill equipped. They’re either going to die or they’re going to figure out how to live and they don’t necessarily have the survival skills to do that.”
After waiting for almost a year, Walking Dead fans will finally get to see just who has those skills to make it through this next round. Season 6 of The Walking Dead premieres October 11 on AMC with its companion series, Talking Dead, immediately following.
