After weeks and weeks of anxious speculation [1], wild theories [2], and more than a few emotional roller coasters, The Walking Dead [3]'s gruesome sixth season finale [4] has finally arrived. The 90-minute-long episode was basically one long, terrifying game of cat and mouse that saw Rick, Abraham, Sasha, Carl, and Aaron desperately trying to get a very sick Maggie medical attention while being continuously stalked by the Saviors. Between the highly anticipated reveal of Negan [5] and a very questionable ending [6], let's just say that TWD made each grisly second count. Keep scrolling to see every appropriate reaction to watching the finale, and check out what Norman Reedus had to say about the big episode [7]. Major spoilers ahead!
When You're More Than 7 Seconds Into the Episode and Daryl Still Isn't on Screen
When Enid Asks Carl, “What Happens If You Don't Come Back?" and He Says, "Just Survive Somehow"
When Father Gabriel Promises to Keep Alexandria Safe, and You Go Along With It Since He Looks So Damn Wise in His Sweater
When Morgan Is Casually Riding Through the Streets on a Horse . . .
. . . And Then He Finds a Seriously Injured Carol, and It's All Too Much
When Rick Tells Maggie, "As Long as It's All of Us, We Can Do Anything," and You Know Someone Is About to Get 50 Shades of Dead
When Rick Starts Mouthing Off to the Saviors Like a Big Dummy
When the Saviors' Response Proves They Aren't Messing Around
When Abraham Says "B*tchnuts," and You Can't Decide If You Love Him or Just Wish He'd STFU
When Morgan Puts That Gnarly, Hanging Walker Out of His Misery
When the Saviors Are Always 1 Step Ahead of the Group, No Matter What
When Our Faves Come Across the Zombie "Chain Gang," With Walkers Tied Up Wearing Pieces of Michonne's Hair and Daryl's Arrows
When It's the Fourth Commercial Break, and No One Important Has Died Yet
When Carol Rips the Face Off of That Zombie
When Suddenly the Guy Who's Been After Carol Appears, Starts Slowly Shooting Her to Death, and She Begs Him to Kill Her
When Morgan Literally Rides In on a White Horse to Save Her
When Abraham Says, "We Are Neck Deep up Sh*t Creek With Our Mouths Wide Open," and You Know He's Right
When Eugene Shares a Truly Tender Moment With Rick and Abraham Before Trying to Divert the Saviors Himself
"You're a survivor, you always were," Abraham tells him. "We just didn't know it."
When You Think Everyone Is in the Clear, but Then the Ominous Sound of Whistling Starts Pouring Out of the Woods
When a Giant Group of Saviors Surrounds Rick, Abraham, Sasha, Carl, and Aaron and Makes Them Get on Their Knees
When They Drag Michonne, Daryl, and Glenn Out From the Back of a Truck to Join the Party
When Negan Makes His Grand Entrance, and You Have to Will Yourself to Forget That Jeffrey Dean Morgan Is Fine as Hell
When He Says That He's Going to Kill Someone, and You Pray For God to Send a Lightning Bolt Down and Put You Out of Your Misery
When Negan Threatens to Murder Maggie, and Glenn Jumps Forward to Protect Her
When Negan Starts Reciting "Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe" Instead of Just Getting It Over With
When Negan Finally Starts Beating the Hell Out of Someone, and You Hear Every Sickening Crunch
When the Show Ends Without Revealing Who Negan Killed
So You Promptly Curse the Writers of the Show
And Vow to Never Watch It Again
Even Though You Know This Will Be All You Can Think About Until Season 7
