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Critic Consensus: "Stradivarius" efficiently sets the board for promising developments and provides a welcome spotlight for Daryl Dixon, but some viewers may feel The Walking Dead is sacrificing organic narrative development and stalling for time with contrivances.
Episode Info
Cast
as Rick Grimes
as Daryl Dixon
as Carl Grimes
as Michonne
as Carol Peletier
as Maggie Greene
as Tara Chambler
as Rosita Espinosa
as Eugene Porter
as Gabriel Stokes
as Morgan Jones
as Aaron
as Negan
as Dwight
as Simon
as Enid
as Jadis
as Gregory
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Critic reviews for Stradivarius
"The Walking Dead" has shifted back to auto-pilot, meandering around with very little drive until the November finale. The creative surge the show displayed early on this season is quickly dwindling.
As another fleeting mid-season affair with lightheartedness for The Walking Dead, it holds some agreeable pockets of black comedy.
When The Walking Dead stops playing games, it still knows how to be quietly effective and dramatic television, and that's the reason I signed up to watch back in 2010 in the first place.
When The Walking Dead stops playing games, it still knows how to be quietly effective and dramatic television, and that's the reason I signed up to watch back in 2010 in the first place.
Another decent episode that was charitable enough to give us some hint as to what happened to Maggie and Hershel and where they might be, while also preparing us for the eventual reveal of The Whisperers.
In short -- mostly ho-hum filler in advance of the mid-season finale.
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