The Walking Dead: Five Reasons the Nursing Home Approach Makes Sense

We’re going to assume you’ve seen the season finale of AMC’s The Walking Dead at this point, or that you don’t care to. If that assumption is wrong, turn back now.Everybody misses The Walking Dead, right? Well, since it’s the first week of painful withdrawal, we’re here for you–tonight we’ve got a couple of features lined up, speculating about what we might see in the coming season.Following the events of last week’s season finale, AMC’s The Walking Dead saw its cast expand significantly, with a busload of Woodbury’s citizens arriving at the end of the episode with the premise being that Rick and his group of survivors will be taking care of the infirm and giving the remaining members of the Woodbury community a safe place to stay following the deaths of their defense force at the hands of the Governor.Carl wasn’t thrilled at this turn of events–and, for that matter, neither were a lot of viewers, who can’t quite see where incoming showrunner Scott Gimple is going here. We figured it wouldn’t be a bad idea to make a short list of why this makes sense, from a storytelling point of view.