This week’s episode of The Strolling Lifeless: Lifeless Metropolis, “Feisty Pleasant,” delivered a gripping and much-needed narrative push, weaving collectively pressure, revelation, and energy performs with ruthless precision. Let’s assessment.
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Bruegel (Kim Coates) made his grand entrance as a nouveau riche character, an electrifying jolt to the sequence—broad, flamboyant, and unapologetically snarky. His arrival was a spectacle, dripping with sarcasm as he mercilessly mocked the Croat’s (Zeljko Ivanek) Serbian accent Bruegel points an insincere, theatrical apology: “Your accent is so attention-grabbing.” He was sorry—besides, in fact, not sorry. Bruegel’s presence dominated the display screen in a means harking back to Negan’s legendary arrival in The Strolling Lifeless—a right away, unsettling drive that demanded consideration.
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“Feisty Pleasant” – THE WALKING DEAD: DEAD CITY, Pictured: Kim Coates |
What’s most attention-grabbing is that this scene performs out at a desk that echoes da Vinci’s “Final Supper.” The artwork course is on level her for the reason that Final Supper Jesus ‘rats’ (pun supposed) that one in all his disciples will betray him. The query is who’s Jesus and who’s Judas on this state of affairs?
Past Bruegel’s ruthless charisma, the episode supplied long-awaited solutions, solidifying previous suspicions whereas opening new doorways of uncertainty. Chief amongst them was affirmation from the Dama (Lisa Emery) that Herschel (Logan Kim) had been aiding the Burazi. The dread wasn’t simply in studying this—it was in what remained unanswered. Can Maggie (Lauren Cohan) actually belief her personal little one?
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| “Feisty Pleasant” – THE WALKING DEAD: DEAD CITY, Pictured: Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan, Lisa Emery as The Dama, Keir Gilchrist as Pierce, Kim Coates as The Bruegel, Zeljko Ivanek as The Croat. Photograph: Robert Clark/AMC © 2025 AMC Networks Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
Negan revealed to Maggie that the Burazi one way or the other acquired to Herschel. Understandably, his revelations had been met together with her determined denial, making the stress of her escape from the Museum—the place she reunited with Negan—all of the extra scrumptious. Her escape introduced her into the sights of the Dama, who had corrupted Herschel. The seed of doubt had been planted, and watching it develop will little question be agonizing for the long-suffering Maggie Rhee.
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In the meantime, shifting allegiances fueled a simmering rivalry between the Dama, the Croat, and Negan. The Croat—unstable but calculating—accused Bruegel of dishonest at walker competitions however couldn’t fairly pin down how. In a twist that upended the steadiness of energy, Negan solved the thriller first—by leaping into the ring and searching into the eyes of one thing that was not a walker—including one other layer of brutality to the episode.
Negan instantly let Bruegel know that he had uncovered the grotesque reality behind his 26 wins. Bruegel’s monstrous creation—his personal Frankenstein’s monster—had been the important thing to his deception. His former bodyguard, Tony (uncredited), had apparently been pressured into merciless servitude within the zombie apocalypse. However not like Shelley’s tragic creature, Tony wasn’t granted even the bitter contemplation of suicide. As an alternative, Bruegel, his creator, snuffed him out with chilly effectivity.
There was aid in Tony’s dying, but additionally horror on the sheer ruthlessness behind it. No human ought to reside a life consuming rats and killing zombies. It’s a little bit of a head-scratcher why Tony hadn’t gotten sick from being so near a lot zombie blood, isn’t it?
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| “Feisty Pleasant” – THE WALKING DEAD: DEAD CITY, Pictured: Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan. Photograph: Robert Clark/AMC © 2025 AMC Networks Inc. All Rights Reserved |
Nonetheless, Bruegel capitulated, saying that he and Negan had “gained one another’s belief,” and his gang could be becoming a member of the Burazi—although with out the methane-producing facility he had hoped to safe on the Museum. By taming Bruegel’s ambition, Negan deepened the divide between the Dama and the Croat whereas drawing himself nearer to the Dama. As an influence transfer, she invited Negan to journey within the again seat together with her, whereas the Croat was relegated to chauffeur. The steadiness of energy had shifted in but unseen methods, fueling an incendiary pressure among the many three, and creating an unstable drive teetering on the sting of flamable betrayals.
The place the episode faltered was in its quieter character moments between Herschel and Maggie. Their firefly memory, meant to deepen their bond, as a substitute tread acquainted emotional floor with out including something new. The writers have plowed this territory sufficient—when there are contemporary, intriguing characters to discover, lingering on outdated wounds felt pressured. And clearly, Herschel wasn’t up to now.
Extra of Narvaez’s (Dascha Polanco) and Ginny’s (Mahina Napoleon) pasts got here to gentle. Governor Byrd formed Narvaez within the methods of legislation, order, and justice. Her sharp intuition allowed her to uncover Ginny’s true motives. For instance, she guessed that Negan, who was imagined to be useless, was very a lot alive and that Ginny had joined New Babylon’s military for causes past mere survival.
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Certainly, Ginny admitted to approaching the mission to “Kill the person who killed her father.” This revelation grew to become a vital thread within the unraveling of New Babylon’s energy construction—particularly since Narvaez’s superior, Colonel Armstrong, swore he had killed Negan. With so many fragile alliances and belief points, the stage is ready for chaos—and within the TWDU, chaos all the time delivers.
This episode proved that the Strolling Lifeless: Lifeless Metropolis nonetheless has enamel—sharp, unrelenting, and able to sink in deeper. What comes subsequent is anybody’s guess, however one factor is definite: nobody is protected.
Who do you assume will obtain the subsequent huge dying? Let me know within the feedback.
Total Grade:
8:10
Lynette Jones