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Walking Dead's Negan Episode Confirms What We Thought All Along

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Rating: 4.5; Vote: 2

Since Negan, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, made his dramatic first appearance on AMC's The Walking Dead, it has been obvious he's not a good guy. Good guys don't generally introduce themselves by decapitating two fan-favorite characters in gruesome fashion. Sure, Jeffrey Dean Morgan brings a certain rugged charisma to the role, and his scenery-chewing dialogue has long been a series highlight, but underneath it all is a man that has killed out of cruelty, sport, and personal gain. He's also, lest we forget his many wives, a serial coercive rapist. His Sanctuary was a brutal, totalitarian regime governed by a carrot-and-stick system of physical punishment and monetary reward. The whole hierarchy was kept aloft by fear. Before Rick's alliance of survivors took down the Saviors, their society represented the most extreme extension of a system based on the flawed premise that might makes right. So forgive us if we've always been a little skeptical of the bat-man's I did it because the apocalypse rationalization. As The Walking Dead concludes its drawn-out tenth season, fans have been treated to a dedicated Negan episode that seems to confirm the worst about Negan's character. The cynics among the show s viewership may have already written Negan off as a violent sociopath, but the latest bonus episode of season 10 pretty much confirms for the rest of us that Negan had issues long before the dead started climbing out of their graves and munching on the living. Some people are just wired wrong, and for Negan, the zombie apocalypse served as more of an opportunity for him to indulge his inner psycho, than a trigger. The episode entitled Here's Negan, based on a side story from the comics that was published in trade paperback under the same name, takes a look at the character's origin story. The prequel tale reveals what the man was like back when Lucille (played here by Morgan's actual wife, Hilarie Burton) was an actual woman, instead of a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. The verdict isn't great for the big guy in the leather jacket. While Negan may still get his shot at ultimate redemption on the show his character has one of the strangest, most bittersweet endings in the source material, after all this episode proves that he was never a man to admire. Here's Negan shows us a familiar side of Negan in an unfamiliar environment. The former Saviors kingpin had always relied on the paper-thin justification that the post-apocalyptic world of The Walking Dead required a brutal hand to start arranging things into a shape resembling the lines of civilization once again. It's all there in the somewhat ironic name of his group. The Saviors were saving people from zombies and societal collapse at least, that's what Negan was telling himself and any unfortunate captive who had to listen. Turns out, Negan's anger issues and propensity to resort to violence predate the appearance of the walkers. In Here's Negan, the problems all start while he's enjoying a pleasant night out with his wife, Lucille. When a belligerent man at the bar talks over a special song of theirs, Lucille asks the man to lower his voice. The man proceeds to get in her face instead, and at that moment, Negan loses his cool and attacks him. Post scuffle, Negan is fired from his job as a gym teacher at the local school, where the man's kids attend. He is also sued, and Lucille then has to pay for her aggressor's hospital bills, because the beating Negan doled out was so severe. The scene paints a portrait of how Negan's malicious and vicious ways come from a deep-rooted place in his past. He's always been a little too quick to resort to violence, which many of us already assumed. One of the open character questions that the series will have to grapple with as it approaches its endgame is whether or not a man like Negan can ever truly redeem himself. We've seen plenty of redemption arcs over the last ten seasons of The Walking Dead. In general, the stressful conditions of the zombie apocalypse allow us to be generous with characters who have done terrible things to survive. Negan's a difficult case, though, just because of the sheer scale of his wrongdoing. Since his incarceration, Negan has made some pretty bold attempts to prove that he's reformed his ways. First, he refused to escape, even when his cell was left open and unattended. He also formed a bond with Judith, even risking life and limb to save her during one of Alexandria's most dire moments. Then, he played a crucial (if violent) role in helping bring down Alpha's Whisperers, the most virulent threat to the survivors since well Negan. Anyone who was starting to come around, however, is going to have to rethink that assessment after watching Here's Negan.
Date: 2021-04-06

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Comments and reviews: 10

Erik
I must say that it think you are looking at this the wrong way. What you are doing is focusing on Negan basically only being a bad person. You are ignoring several of his compassionate traits that were shown before this episode ever aired. For instance his fondness for children and the fact that he does have a moral code. He does resort to violence but towards those he believe deserve it: he killed Glenn and Abraham because they had killed his people. When he killed the bikers at the bar to help Laura and her dad who they were most likely going to kill.
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Zandergar
in all honesty, i think he was on the path of redeaming himself and changing. but knowing how carol and darryl were so behind him through this time, to just abandon him now in isolation and basically kick him to the curb. That's what I think was his final straw to what led him to resort back to his old ways. abandonment by those who had his back, it was just to much for him. and his resentment turned back into anger.
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EMH
The season Negan was introduced was the last season of the Walking Dead I watched. I was already starting to lose interest in the soap opera Days of our Deaths. But sometime around that season, I moved from a fan of the show to moderately interested and finally not interested. .haven't watched it for years now. I guess I might catch up after the series wraps. Just to get some closure.
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ctiz
The walking dead used to be fun with the living fighting against the dead. The main evil was the zombies. But Neegan arc destroyed the series. It was stretched way to far and made the show monotonous and the story went off rails.
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Drake
The Walking Dead parallels real life. You have long stretches of boredom where nothing really happens, punctuated by brief moments of fear and excitement, and you have bad people who many times outlast their noble counterparts.
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fanjoy
This episode ruined his origin story from the here's negan comic storyline where we learn that he was pushed to be the way he is, which was a very redeeming storyline where we learn his actions are out of necessity not want.
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josh
Has been my favorite character since he smashed glenns head in what goes around comes around negan was never really the bad guy but he definitely isn t a great guy every man has his demons
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Larry
Everyone talks about how bad Negan was but the community did get tricked into killing a whole lot of his people before he killed Glen which was Daryl fought go back and watch it
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Drew
'Here's Negan' was probably the best episode the show has had in a while and personally I'd like a few more episodes like this to break up what has been a very repetitive show.
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RJ
I did not know that Negan decapitated Abe bad Glenn b/c last I checked he bashed their heads in whereas if he decapitated them then their heads would still be intact.
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