After last week’s scarcely watchable episode, this more contemplative one was a blessed relief – and it had a tiger. Who doesn’t love a CGI tiger?

This was, to put it mildly, uncomfortable viewing: 45-plus minutes of torture porn courtesy of Negan’s shattering campaign of terror, mingled with something even more unpalatable

Finally, we come face to face with supervillain Negan – after a masterful game of cat and mouse that leaves us with a creepy, holy hell of a showdown

Post-apocalyptic women continue to take center stage while the show’s writers leave us guessing ahead of the season finale

The show’s second killer episode in a row, so to speak, is also the second to revolve around the female characters … and Eugene. But mostly the women

Carol and Maggie face off with some deadly captors as everyone re-examines the choices they’ve made until this point

A deadly excursion to secure Alexandria’s future has disastrous consequences for everyone involved – especially the Saviors

In which we encounter the artisanal apocalypse, get to know Jesus’s Hilltop buddies and things get personal for Abraham

Wandering around in the wilderness looking for water tests our survivors’ strength and gives us plenty of gritty metaphors to chew on

As the sixth season resumes after the winter break, the fate of Alexandria is revealed when Rick and his companions have to decide between fight and flight – with some truly shocking consequences

A zombie attack in Alexandria leaves some strange bedfellows as groups take shelter in the fall season finale – and not everyone survives

We finally learn Glenn’s fate and The Walking Dead’s teenagers are the most annoying they have ever been

Darryl meets up with some new survivors, while Sasha and Abraham get a new lease on life

We’re back in Alexandria as the zombie stampede descends. The walls can withstand the pressure, but can the survivors?

Morgan’s backstory was a tame installation in the series, but one that restored some faith and optimism to the bleak landscape

A score of deaths and some perilous situations as Rick’s zombie stampede takes on disastrous consequences

An attack on Alexandria provides some beautiful carnage and a philosophical split on the future of the community

A giant horde of walkers are trapped in a quarry in a spectacular episode which oscillates between the present and the recent past

In bravura style, this shocking season finale showed Rick confronting the people of Alexandria, and perfectly set up a very creepy season six

Rick finally makes his intentions about Alexandria clear as Sasha deals with past trauma and Darryl finds something very creepy in the woods.

While Gabriel worries about how Satan is going to invade Alexandria, the walkers send a few characters to some of the grisliest deaths on the whole show

Alexandria rolls out its welcome wagon but the kickass crew of Rick, Daryl, and Carol aren’t sure whether they want to climb aboard

Rick and his crew return to the civilisation of Alexandria, but have been so damaged by their experiences that they can no longer fit in

The theme of the impossibility of trust in a post-apocalyptic world comes to the fore again as Rick goes crazier and Aaron tries to marshal the survivors

Wandering around in the wilderness looking for water trusts our survivors’ reserve and gives us plenty of gritty metaphors to chew on

A road trip proves fatal as Rick, Michonne and Glenn are still reeling from the events of the hospital and searching for what should happen next