The Walking Dead ’s status as an all-time great survival series is beyond reproach, but it’s also widely accepted that the show fell off big time during its later seasons. While it picked up a little during the home straight, a string of episodes between seasons 6 and 8 made many longtime fans switch off.

While there are several episodes of The Walking Dead that made viewers quit the series, if we look closer we can pinpoint a single moment which began its downward trajectory. This episode definitively turned the show’s central protagonist Rick Grimes into a different character, who was less forgivable and harder to identify with.

Once Rick crossed the Rubicon in season 6 episode 12, there was no turning back, and we’d never think of his entire group the same way again. While it’d

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