Home Sweet Home (The Walking Dead)

At the site of the burned community, Carol reveals to Maggie that she released Negan and that he infiltrated the Whisperers, accompanied them in the Hilltop attack, and killed Alpha.

Maggie tells Daryl that her son, Hershel (Kien Michael Spiller), has been asking her about the man who murdered his father and that she refuses to have him live in Alexandria while Negan is there.

Amidst the chaos, Maggie is able to free herself and Kelly manages to wound the Reaper using Daryl's crossbow; the group surround the attacker.

With nowhere else to go, the group travel to Alexandria, only to find it under repair since it was trashed by a horde of walkers, led by Beta, after the residents evacuated and took shelter in a nearby hospital.

Other changes include Lauren Cohan (Maggie) being promoted back to the main cast as her name appears in the opening credits.

The site's critical consensus reads: "It remains murky whether these bonus installments will have a life of their own, but 'Home Sweet Home' gracefully returns Lauren Cohan into the fold.

[7] From Comicbook.com, Cameron Bonomolo gave the episode 4 out of 5 stars, writing that it was able to highlight "the humanity of the people surviving in a world of the dead".

[8] IGN critic Matt Fowler gave it a 6/10 rating, writing that the episode was a "somewhat dull revisiting of Maggie's resentment and anger toward Negan.

It's an understandable emotion for her to continue to wallow in, sure, but as viewers we're years beyond this now, in the show, and in real life, leaving this attempt to recapture the thread sort of toothless".