We had the death of a major character, chaos among the survivors, and potential cliffhangers galore. Also, in the post- credits preview, we had the introduction of a character that will play a big role in the future of the AMC blockbuster. Familiar to fans of the Robert Kirkman- created comics on which TWD is based, the first mention of the Negan villain last night seems to put Rick Grimes, Glenn Rhee, Daryl Dixon and the other survivors in even greater danger than usual – and that’s saying something in a world gone terribly wrong. Add to that the fact that Sunday’s “Start To Finish” episode saw the Alexandria Safe- Zone now under siege by legions of Walkers and the community’s leader, Deanna Monroe, bitten by one of the Walkers.

After the multi- episode arc of whether or not the Glenn (played by Steven Yeun) survived being knocked into a horde of frenzied Walkers (he did), Season 6 of the series marks yet another shift and reinvention for a show that regularly reinvents itself. With tensions within the Safe- Zone between its residents and Grimes’ survivors, a murderous invasion by members of the Wolves gang and a moral decision by Lennie James’ Morgan character that will definitely determine aspects of the rest of the Season 6, TWD also saw the series hit some ratings potholes after years of record- breaking growth. Related. The executive producer also offered insights on the roles of Negan and Norman Reedus’ Daryl, plus looking toward Season 7. DEADLINE: You’ve said that the return of the second half of Season 6 of The Walking Dead next year will be with one of the biggest episodes you’ve ever done. What do you mean by that? GIMPLE: Oh Lordy, it’s taking us to . It’s taking us to a closed- quarters situation that is both emotionally explosive and terrifying in as much as people are closed in with an army of Walkers.

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It’s a horrific and unique type of claustrophobia. DEADLINE: What was your reaction to the reaction of the fate of Steven Yeun’s Glenn Rhee character this past half- season? GIMPLE: From the end of Episode 3 to the beginning of Episode 7, I thought it was a remarkable pop culture moment. I love that people who didn’t know each other had something to talk to each other about and that made the world a smaller place with a lot of passionate feelings on both sides, on all sides. When it was all said and done after Episode 7, the incredible elation that fans seemed to have was very cool to see.

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We don’t get to tell those type of stories very often on the show and to see Glenn live, to see the hero survive, I felt was something the audience earned after six years of watching The Walking Dead. Six years of seeing the hero die, I believed this was something the audience deserved. Related. Last night’s midseason finale also seemed to really tease the fate of Carl and whether he would suffer the horrific injury he gets in the comic. How much were you playing against that expectation? GIMPLE: It wasn’t specific to play against that expectation, but I will say that last year’s midseason finale and Episode 1.

Season 5 were very much episodes that closed the stories. We wanted to do something different this year; we wanted to play with that general expectation and that it’s not always going to be the same thing as the comic or previous seasons. Watch Black Bread Online Forbes there. Related. That character is the one who kills Glenn in the comics, so how is that character going to be different on the show than he is in the comic?

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GIMPLE: I would say this: It’s an incredible drag that its come out that we’ve cast that role. I know that it’s really hard for that information not to get out, but I would have loved to have been able to manage expectations there with fans. We make this show pretty far in advance and when they find out about things we’ve planned in the future, pretty deep into the future, I don’t want them just thinking, “Oh I want to get to that.” In a perfect world they wouldn’t even know about that or asking questions about that save for our mention last night, which is fair play. I will add that we’ve done things from the comics to the letter and we’ve done things from the comics very very differently. I think that’s probably the guiding principle that fans should have when they think about Negan. DEADLINE: Speaking of doing things differently from the comics, are we going to see a lot more from Norman Reedus’ Daryl Dixon character, which isn’t in the comics, the rest of this season? There seems to have been a lot of emphasis on him, as that preview from last night hinted as well.

This upcoming half- season is very very different than the previous half- season in the structure, in the lineup of characters in the episodes, and I think even in the types of stories we are telling. I have us go outside what is my comfort zone because I love telling stories that are character- based first. In lot of ways, this next half- season has that character but the plot really does take over for several episodes. I was trying to push myself to take it in a new direction, maybe not permanently but for these next eight episodes I wanted to do something different and you’re going to see something different.

Seen that asian girl do lots of pornos before. Would rather it not be porn stars. But ah well. The sixth and final season of Gossip Girl, an American teen drama based upon the book series by Cecily von Ziegesar and developed for television by Josh Schwartz and. As promised, Monday’s episode featured the return of Jeremiah, but the Danvers family’s.

Related. Why do you think that is? GIMPLE: I don’t think it’s been that huge a dip and further I don’t think it might be a story regarding The Walking Dead but really I think it might be a story about television. I think that there are similar shows in the 1. Look, we’re undergoing a shift, even from when Walking Dead started, in the way that people consume television. We’re seeing it’s effect not just in Walking Dead ratings, but rating across the board.

Technology is taking a nibble out of us. I’m to blame too, I watch a lot of things on my DVR. I can only blame myself, I like to watch my shows when I want to watch them and I think a lot of people are in the same place. I will say, I get far too much stuff spoiled for me and if I had my druthers I’d liked to watch TV when TV is on.

Like, I’m just getting into Game Of Thrones now and I already know everything that’s going to happen and that’s annoying. DEADLINE: OK, but after several years as the showrunner, how would you rank this season of all the Walking Dead seasons? GIMPLE: I can’t do that (laughs) but I will say that this certainly was the most challenging. Just from a really basic physical standpoint for myself, for the crew and for the cast. This was a really hard one. We’re very proud of it, but man, people are still sleeping it off.

DEADLINE: How soon until you start pulling things together for Season 7? GIMPLE: I’m sitting down with the writers next week, in a lot of ways we haven’t really stopped. There isn’t entirely a break because we’re still doing post on Season 6 and we just stopped shooting just over a week ago. Robert Kirkman created the never- ending zombie movie and we’re in the never- ending television production.

Club. Last week, “San Diego” feinted in the direction of convenience and cowardice, then turned the tables, letting each character get something they deserve. In “Five Stars For Beezus,” that cowardice—and the courage to overcome it—goes from subtext to text as Jess, Nick, and Winston all face up to fears. These last two episodes of the sixth season fit together like Jess and Nick, like Schmidt and Cece, like Winston and Furguson—I mean, Winston and Aly.

But, in Schmidt’s words, “I’m getting ahead of myself. Mazel!” I mean that congratulations sincerely. If “Five Stars For Beezus” ends up being not just the season finale but also the series finale, the writers, showrunners, and cast can be proud. They’ve given everyone a milestone and a moment in the spotlight.

Sure, I could watch another year of these lovable misfits stumbling into belated adulthood. I could watch Jessica Day and Nick Miller for another 4.

There’s room to grow if New Girl returns for season seven. But if that elevator door closing on Jess and Nick as credits roll is our last glimpse of them, it’s enough. That’s no small trick. The finale’s action could be too frantic to follow, but New Girl creator Elizabeth Meriwether (who wrote the season finale) and director Erin O’Malley play to that pace. Echoing the season- opening “House Hunt,” “Five Stars For Beezus” is a farce, full of crossed paths, intercepted messages, near misses, and scurried escapes. It packs in all kinds of announcements, obstacles, and congratulations, and still leaves breathing room for such characteristic conversational asides as Nick and Schmidt arguing over whether Nick looked under Winston’s pillow for his phone charger. Like Nick’s audience of young readers, or like Schmidt and Cece “watching these idiots do this dance for the last six years,” we don’t want to be told there’s no hope for the show’s OTP.

Similarly, the moment Cece mentions to Jess her visit to Sadie, their mutual friend and OB/GYN, it’s not a question of whether she’s pregnant, but of how we’ll hear it. But sitcom suspense is a funny thing: You can be certain something’s going to happen and still feel a flutter when it doesn’t. Meriwether’s script subverts expectations, making those foregone conclusions work for the show, not against it, by focusing less about how we find out what happens to these characters and more about how they do. Like any good farce, “Five Stars For Beezus” makes the most of its dramatic irony, letting us see clearly what the characters can’t.

Pepperwood Chronicles cosplayers flank Zooey Deschanel (Screenshot: FOX)When Nick shatters Jess’ hopes by telling his audience there’s no romance ahead between Julius Pepperwood and Jessica Night, she doesn’t get to hear his follow- up: “Pepperwood. When Aly presents Winston with his father’s name and number, it’s just a matter of time before Winston swallows his worries and calls. A few elements of “Five Stars For Beezus,” and of sixth- season New Girl in general, feel like they’ve been retrofitted for maximum emotional impact. We’ve never seen or heard Nick’s version of his first sight of Jess, as he watched her bumbling around outside the loft on her way to meet them. In earlier seasons, Winston’s absent father was a fact, but not a major facet of his character. But the writing and the performances smooth over these minor bumps. This show couldn’t be the well- oiled machine it is without this cast.

Max Greenfield gets well- deserved attention for Schmidt’s over- the- top outbursts, but he’s great in smaller emotional moments, too, like the quiet rambling as he announces Cece’s pregnancy to her. In the same scene, Hannah Simone conveys joy, surprise, and relief with just her eyes, suggesting a whole untapped backstory of their attempts to conceive. Lamorne Morris can go from goofy to grounded in a split second, and he gives Winston’s phone call to his estranged father every ounce of gravity it deserves without feeling saccharine or out of place. His challenge to Jess—a simple “So now it’s your turn to be brave”—carries just the right weight.

It’s not a childish taunt, but one adult showing another how to face their fears.“Five Stars For Beezus” grapples uncompromisingly with fear. When Schmidt corners Nick into admitting why he was reluctant to let Jess move in six years ago, Nick confesses, “Because I was afraid.” Anyone hearing Nick reminisce about his first sight of Jess would know he was in love with her, but it’s not until his prospective publisher, Merle Streep (Brian Huskey, perfectly straddling the margin between odd and unobtrusive) of Park Bench Press, suggests killing off Jessica Night that Nick realizes what he stands to lose. As Nick reminisces about his first sight of Jess, Jess is reminiscing, too.

A yellow cat bucket hat reminds her of the day her new roommates stood up for her, rescuing her possessions from Spencer. But it’s the oldies station Winston chooses for the drive to Portland that clinches it, calling back to New Girl’s pilot, and the fractured serenade they perform. And who led that serenade? Running from the moving truck only to be stuck outside the loft without her keys, Jess unknowingly re- enacts the first time Nick set eyes on her, and the moment he first fell for her. This scene would have more resonance for the audience if it were recreating a scene we’d witnessed before—if it were bookending a scene from the pilot, or if Nick had previously mentioned it.

But there’s something sweet about the idea that his first sight of Jess resides only Nick’s mind, that it’s a memory he’s lingered over from time to time for the past six years, and that only now is anyone else hearing about it, just before we watch it play out anew. Jess runs out of Nick’s reading too quickly to hear his follow- up to the romance question: “Pepperwood. Sometimes you don’t another chance to fix the mistake.” But sometimes you do. In classic New Girl fashion, this reunion is stymied by missed connections and over- eagerness and comical interruptions, and in classic New Girl fashion, it all works out for the silly, sappy best. Nick’s plea to a delivery man to hurry because “I gotta tell my best friend I’m in love with her,” with Jess overhearing their friendly insult- slinging, isn’t a perfect romantic moment, but it’s a perfect Nick Miller moment. To the thrum of Lorde’s “Green Light,” Nick and Jess run, stumble, and jump their way to each other.

It’s a rom- com clich. But love is worth overcoming the obstacles. And once you reach it, those obstacles seem like nothing at all. Stray observations. I’m sorry to hear Sadie and Melissa are divorced, and not just, to paraphrase Winston, because New Girl is hella heterosexual lately. My bad, I’ll put some money in the jar.)If there’s one false note here, it’s the titular Beezus, Schmidt’s favorite Uber driver.

Nothing about this segment adds to the episode, except by showing how Nick gets back to the loft. I can’t fault Fred Willard, who is exactly what you’d expect Fred Willard as an Uber driver to be. But it’s one clanging note in an otherwise beautifully fluid farce, and I get the feeling if the driver had been a lesser name, the scene might have been cut to good effect. Was there any doubt Nick and Jess would end up together? Apparently there was, in the showrunners’ minds. My live stream stuttered, preventing me from grabbing screenshots of Julius Pepperwood and Jessica Night cosplayers.

I’ll update as soon as I can get ’em. Update: There they are, flanking Jessica Day above. That’s it for season six of New Girl. Thanks for reading!