The Walking Dead: Seven Cool Things You Might Have Missed in “Us”

This week’s episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead has been the subject of a ton of conversation……and even more speculation about next week’s season finale. Robert Kirkman and Scott Gimple had promised fans a more hopeful ending than we’re used to, which was interesting. In each of the first two seasons, Rick and his group of survivors lost their “home base” at the end of the season and at the end of season three, The Governor wiped out all of his people and the prison group had to bring them all on board. While the decision to bring the Woodbury residents into the prison ultimately proved tragic when The Governor came back this year at midseason, it seemed like an awfully hopeful ending at the time.Perhaps that’s why, as the last couple of weeks have unfolded, the producers have backed away from “hopeful” a bit and promised a monster cliffhanger with major emotional impact on the characters.