Despite the fact that it’s still more than two weeks until The Walking Dead returns for Season 9B, AMC sent out screeners for the first two episodes about a month early, and today, that embargo drops. One common complaint about The Walking Dead is that it always goes through the same cycles. Rick’s group meets a new group, they’re almost certainly evil-pretending-to-be-nice (Woodbury, Terminus) or just evil (Wolves, Saviors) and there’s a war afterward. Now, we’re not only meeting a new group without Rick for the first time, but the Whisperers are something else entirely. I remain excited about The Walking Dead in the Angela Kang era, and that’s something I wasn’t sure I could feel again about this show.

Source: Forbes January 24, 2019 12:45 UTC