"The Walking Dead" continued for 11 seasons, or 177 episodes, and we can all agree that this was at least a few. Many viewers have stopped looking at the later seasons of pure exhaustion, and other potential viewers are hesitant to get into the show because of how big it is. 177 episodes is an obligation, especially since a good part of those episodes are only set for finales.

Given this, we narrow the show to its five most important episodes. These are not Best Episodes exactly, but they are chosen to give viewers the best idea of ​​how the show develops during their eleven seasons. Nothing will ever be compared to looking at the whole thing of course, but if you want to understand "The Walking Dead" in just five hours, this list is your best bet. And hey, you may enjoy this sampling of the show so much, you will end up going back and trying out all the work.

Although the purpose of this list is not to choose the best episodes of the show, it is worth noting that "days spent" are really one of the best episodes. Written and directed by Frank Dar of Fame on "The Shawshank Redemption"This episode is swinging, atmospheric introduction to the bold part of this show on the apocalypse of the zombie.

Perhaps the most interesting for this episode is how young and idealistic rick is still. He is freshly shaved, short hair and still thinks of pedestrians as real people suffering from tragic fate. He kills them when it should be certainly, but he shows a level of pity and compassion for them that Rick would never struggle later. "The days spent," Rick shows his most era and idealistic; Bee is a slow and a steady decline from here.

What also distinguishes this first episode is how pedestrians are displayed. These pedestrians are a little tighter and smarter than they would be during the rest of the show; It is clear that writers have not decided on what rules would be the rules for these zombies, which means some of their behavior rings inaccurate for "Twd" Rewatch fans. However, it offers a good look at what "The Walking Dead" took place in the early stages, even if the show eventually headed in the other direction.

"The Walking Dead" was always a dark show, ready to Kill the main character Once every few episodes in the first two seasons. However, the "killer within" is the first episode to clearly stated how dark it is to be. There are expected rules on what kind of character is assumed to be safe in TV -Show, and the "killer within" crosses it with full confidence.

Outside the biggest conspiracy events, this episode helps highlight how Rick has changed with this moment in the show. He is already darker and much stronger than he was in the pilot, and the world around him has grown and fastened. It is also noticeable how pedestrians have changed to this point, as the show is no longer iousubopity over whether pedestrians can retain parts of their former souls. The "killer within" are not individuals, but a frightening force of nature. The rest of this list will skip over a lot of mutilization related to Walker, but make sure gigantic swells occur quite often in this world.

For the first five seasons, "The Walking Dead" went into a well -known scheme. The gang will come across a new potential home, calm down there for a while, just for pedestrians or other people to destroy it for them. This scheme was not as monotonous as the haters of the show often portray, but the point stands; Up to season 5The fans had no reason to expect that every new home found by the survivors would last in the long run.

And yet, the city they find here actually holds around the rest of the series. It goes through some harsh times, of course, but with this episode "The Walking Dead" has decided to break down its established scheme and allow the gang to find a home that (more or less) remains its home during the series. This is the point when the series is changing the focus of survival at the end of civilization to actually do the work to rebuild the new one. The show definitely feels different from this point, for better or worse.

The first three episodes on this list were broadcast during the rating period, and this is the episode that saw the top of the viewership. This premiere of Season 7 was seen live by 17 million viewers, a feat that will never again be able to withdraw. For the next episode, the viewership descended to 12 million. What caused this decline in grades? Looking at "the day will come when you will not be", I think you will have a pretty easy time to understand the reason.

The premiere of Season 7 is the show to the most shocking and sadisticas well as his most prominent. This is the moment when most fans are tired of all darkness, the first moment when killing a big character did not lead to a higher rating next week. This is when the show probably went too far, and never managed to restore the audience's confidence.

But despite how controversial the episode is, its biggest scene is also one of the most iconic moments the show has given us so far. You've probably already heard what is happening here through pure cultural osmosis. This is one of the most important episodes of the show's inheritance, an integral part of the understanding of the show.

The most surprising part of seeing this episode, if you just watched the previous four on the list, is how unknown most of the main team is. Where is Rick, or Carl, or Maggie? These characters who once seemed so vital to the show are absent here and not necessarily because they are killed As you can guess.

But even for viewers at the time, this episode was awkward. It is an episode that takes place at the beginning of a six -year -old jump, where we will see the baby Jududite (introduced in a "killer within" as a child enough old to be a true character with a proper person). The world of "Who are you now?" is gentle than the world of the first four episodes on this list, but there are still very frightening things to worry.

In this episode there are no deaths that change play or reveal in this episode, but I think it belongs to the list, simply because it introduces the final era of the series. The characters in this last part of "The Walking Dead" had a lot of time to make peace with their trauma as best they can, and although the world around them is still difficult, there is more reason for hope than it had at any moment in the first seven seasons.