The Walking Dead (10×17) Home Sweet Home Review

For our review of the last episode of The Walking Dead, click here.

Synopsis: Maggie has returned with a story she is not ready to share, even when her past catches up to her. Negan’s safety is at stake again. Daryl and Maggie fight an unseen and unknown threat. (IMDb)

When you thought season 10 of The Walking Dead was over, here’s 6 more episodes to presumably introduce the eleventh and final season coming in the summer of 2021. What will these 6 episodes have in store, who knows but let’s find out! Will we still care though? This episode was essentially a side mission/exposition dump focusing mostly on Maggie which makes sense and a little bit on Kelly who still missed Connie.

Home Sweet Home began with Maggie staring into Negan’s soul for what looks to be the first of many intense encounters between the two and he sensed what was going on. Nevertheless, Carol told her about what he did for everyone though whether or not she changes her mind remains to be seen. With Hilltop gone, the gang moved to Alexandria with some of Maggie’s people (who had trust issues among other things) but whether or not they get there in time was the question. Standing in their way was a parking lot full of walkers while Maggie may be a little rusty.

Maggie and Georgie were merely doing their thing and helping groups like they did at Hilltop until they got seperated with Georgie leaving and Maggie staying behind with Herschel. Once her place wasn’t safe, they ran. However, going back to Negan and the memories of what happened to Glenn was hard. On their way back to the rest of Maggie’s people, the ones they were running away from, the Reapers, found them first. With some missing and some dead, it was up to everyone to get to the bottom of it.

Daryl and Maggie in action once again was cool. They reunited with some of Maggie’s people who ran away into the forest once their hideout was set on fire by the Reapers who were now hunting them. The only survivors of the following onslaught, they looked like they may have met their match, the other showed up just in time. It appeared that it was only one man responsible for at least the fire and he was willing to die rather than reveal his motives or identity. In the end, they got Herschel (Kien Michael Spiller), who was hiding in a tree, back.

As far as Maggie was concerned, she and Herschel needed to get back home to Alexandria (Negan or not) as she confidently walked back into an Alexandria that was being rebuilt with Herschel in hand.

At the end of the day, more of the same which isn’t that shocking as far as The Walking Dead is concerned. The inevitable Maggie and Negan showdown will be intense.

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Keith Noakes

The EIC of the coincidentally-named keithlovesmovies.com. A Canadian who prefers to get out of the cold and into the warmth of a movie theatre.