? The Walking Dead S08.E15: Worth

We begin right where we left off in the last episode, with Rick reading the letter Carl wrote before he died. Maybe he's reading it a second time, because now he's outside, looking at it from some sort of elevated railing where he can spot Judith playing with Michonne. Rick is holding the note, and we hear Carl's voice reminding Rick about pre-apocalypse times with family and friends and Friday-night pizza. This reminds me: it's very odd that we don't hear survivors talking much about pre-virus pop culture or what their lives were like. There was more of that earlier in the series, but now you hardly ever hear those kinds of references, which makes Carl's note more poignant; it feels like he's recalling real things that happened in a real life, not just touchstones convenient to the plot.

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