The Walking Dead: 5 Things You Need to Know About the Midseason Premiere 

have endured a walker-dispersal debacle, a blitzkrieg by the Wolves, the fall of Alexandria, Glenn’s “death,” Deanna’s death and enough teen angst to make them feel like they were enrolled at West Beverly High. (

But if you think their theme song for Season 6’s second half is gonna be “Things Can Only Get Better,” you’ve got another thing coming. Here’s why you should dread the series’ return (Feb. 14, 9/8c, AMC) as much as look forward to it…

Oh, and need we really warn you? Spoilers ahead, and lots of ’em!

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casualty Xander Berkeley be turning up as Gregory, the self-serving leader of the Hilltop Colony, but Jeffrey Dean Morgan will make his much-anticipated debut as the Saviors’ lethal leader, Negan, “one of the great pop-culture characters of the last 20 years,” in the estimation of showrunner Scott M. Gimple. But, as he told Michael Ausiello, “There is a long road to [meeting him]. I don’t want people to expect to see him tomorrow.” To temper all that evil, at least a little,

alum Tom Payne will also be joining the cast as good guy “Jesus.” In Robert Kirkman’s comic books, the erstwhile Paul Monroe becomes a tremendous ally to Rick & Co.

4. Glenn is almost certainly toast. In the comics, Negan infamously murders him with a barbed-wire-covered baseball bat named Lucille. And, although the series’ plots don’t always mirror the comics’, Kirkman has admitted that “it’d be disingenuous of me to say, from a viewer’s point of view, that I wouldn’t be afraid [for Glenn]. But what am I holding out hope for?” Maybe a reprieve by way of one of the “hard left turns from the comic story” with which he teased EW.com?

3. Whether or not she’s soon to be widowed, Maggie will step up rather than break down. Kirkman has hinted that, in the wake of Deanna’s demise, the congresswoman’s aide “might be changed in [more of a leadership] direction.” And, in the comics, she becomes such a force to be reckoned with that she usurps Gregory’s power at the Hilltop Colony.

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2. Against all odds, Carol and Morgan’s disagreement over the Wolf whose life he secretly spared may not result in either of their deaths. As Kirkman has noted, before their confrontation, Morgan was beginning to have doubts about his stance, and when “Carol could’ve pulled the trigger… she didn’t.” Great. So now maybe they can work together to rescue poor, kidnapped Denise…

. You’ll recall that, in the winter finale, as he, Rick, Michonne, Carl, Gabriel, Jessie and Ron were sneaking through a sea of walkers while covered in zombie guts, the little boy panicked and called out for his mom. “Yes,” Andrew Lincoln confirmed to EW.com, “there will be blood.” How much? If the series” version of “No Way Out” goes down anything like the comics’ version — the episode shares its title with the 14th volume of the comics — Jessie and (thank God!) Ron are history.

Do you think the show will really let Negan kill Glenn? Who are you hoping survives — and doesn’t survive — the midseason premiere? Hit the comments!

I can’t even think about what’s coming, it gives me horrible anxiety, LOL!!! Excited for the return but gahhhhhhh!!!!!!

My Negan prediction is that they will mix it up…and have him kill Daryl instead

Part of me’s hoping that big fake out with Glenn’s previous “death” was setting us up for a greater tragedy, for him to return just to be killed by Negan…. But in reality I think it’s showed their hand a little, and I reckon there’ll be some bizarre twist that saves Glenn while killing off “third villager from right”. The graphic novel is not bound by the same oversight like a TV show is, especially one that now is basically AMC’s saving grace… Whatever the producers wanna do re: killing Glenn, I can’t see the network letting that happen

Good shows allow characters to pass on so the story can evolve. I think Glenn is toast.

As to your No. 1 slot, I have doubts about Gabriel’s survival too, basically because timing wise, he was back in LA while I believe they were still filming the end of the season because, in a much more beloved role, Deaton returned to Beacon Hills last week on Teen Wolf.

I feel like, after the Glenn Death tease from the first half, the writers need to take a breath of that one. Someone else is likely to take Glenn’s comic death, and if Glenn is almost certainly toast, I think it has to be in s7 or 8 and not now, because if its now people will just continue to whine about the point/controversy over his survival odds, of the tease…basically, they need to leave Glenn alone for now, the odds of his death has already taken up way more discussion than is necessary this year. Let him meet his kid and then legitimately off him seemingly out of nowhere in a year or two.

I hate to be this guy, but I hope Negan kills Morgan. He’s gone by this point in the comics, and he hasn’t been around for much of the series, so it wouldn’t feel different without him.

The three that I’ve seen tossed around the most in social media have been Daryl, Abraham and Morgan :-)

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