Be warned! This review will cover aspects of the episode. Spoilers will lurk like groaning cover’budge ers..###Previously on The Walking Dead… Look, just watch this, okay?###How you respond to tonight's episode most likely depends on what you've wanted from The Walking Dead as it takes ever darker turns. If you've been eagerly anticipating who was on the receiving end of Negan's (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) baseball bat to the head (you sick puppy, you), you might feel relief that at last we know that it was Abraham (Michael Cudlitz), and then Glenn (Steven Yeun) – in keeping with the comic reserve story – who met their fate thanks a combination of wood, barbed wire and brute strength.###But as the series has veered from post-apocalyptic drama where you hoped the characters would find some chance at redemption, even if the possibility of putting civilization back on track remains tantalisingly out of their grapple , to something resembling violence and misery porn, the entertainment value has taken a real tumble.###Sure, Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and the rest of the gang possess’own’nurse been in tough situations bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e. No one can in/with regard to’concerning’regarding acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure the Governor (David Morrissey) or the cannibal gang at Terminus, but now, with the stakes higher than they've ever been, it's starting to feel as despite’in spite of’albeit we got our wish in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the main characters (peculiar ly lucky escape champ Glenn) to face true jeopardy and we're regretting it.###Morgan's man certainly makes in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a compelling, intense and frequently jovial villain, who has eliminate’remove ly been reading from the Khan Noonian Singh Manual Of Bad Behaviour – most of the episode is with regards to’concerning’with respect to how he intends to go on hurting Rick (and firm’enterprise ) unless they do what he says. There's even a sequence – ably brought to life by director Greg Nicotero channeling his old boss Frank Darabont's vision of The Mist in a sequence where he propel s Rick in the RV to a pack of cover’budge ers, throws Grimes' hatchet on the roof and makes him fetch it.###It's hard, despite’in spite of’albeit , because the tone this week – from reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue -runner Scott Gimple's script – is one of such unremitting brutality that you'll find it tough’challenging’demanding’awkward to figure out how anything positive can counterbalance the blood, loss, fear and depression we're wading through here. And even Negan's demands in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Rick to reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue him the proper level of respect starts to feel repetitive. We acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure it… he's terrible. And he wants their loyalty, or at least their subservient fear.###There are things to admire with regards to’concerning’with respect to the episode, in/with regard to’concerning’regarding sure. Nicotero and his effects team do fine work on the deaths, especially the drawn-out beating of poor old Glenn, which makes this one we wouldn't recommend watching with dinner, not that you should on a regular episode either. Focusing on Rick's haunted eyes across different scenes – as he lies atop the RV surrounded by cover’budge ers, or faces up to Negan – is also effective, and let Andrew Lincoln do a lot with intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully little.###"Very little" is what most of the rest of the cast acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure to do save in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a few moments. There are tense times in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Carl (Chandler Riggs) who seems like he might lose an arm at one point bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e it is revealed that it's just Negan's final little test in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Rick. And Lauren Cohan is handed a chance to grieve as Maggie in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Glenn bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue ing some steel in her spine, announcing that she's cover’budge ing the hospital at Hilltop (she's pregnant, remember, and apparently was in some obstacle’barrier’challenge’setback but now seems more able to cover’budge ) and that eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullyone else needs to fight Negan. Good luck with that! Daryl, meanwhile, lunges at one point, but is restrained and eventually ends up caged like an animal in the back of Negan's van. But in a moment, like several others in the episode, where Negan comes across as the audience substitute, even he realises he can't kill Mr. Dixon. Must've heard that the fans will riot…###The final scene of the episode actually works better than most of the intensity that precedes it; as our shell-shocked main group pick themselves up and pile back into the RV. There's a moment where Rick spots a cover’budge er stumbling out of the trees, appeal’tempt ed by the remains of one of the victims, but simply leaves the creature in the rear view mirror, a healthy bit of symbolism indicating that the cover’budge ers truly are no longer the most dangerous thing out there.###Yet in/with regard to’concerning’regarding all the little elements in the pro column, The Day Will Come When You Won't Be (sponsored by Very Long Titles Are Us) rarely hits at a level that makes the long wait worthwhile, while the episode keeps such a tight focus on the misin/with regard to’concerning’regarding tunes of the main group as to feel as if the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue 's team is Negan, brutalising our feelings even as they batter the characters. We've followed Rick in peculiar this far, but his endless series of misjudgments and even his seemingly lunatic bravado towards Negan in the early scenes embark on put you off the concept even as you still misgiving’fret in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the future of the group. They will fight back – they possess’own’nurse to, that's what they do, and no one wants a story where they're simply another arm of Negan's violent Saviours in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the rest of the run – but after one enormous’vast’massive’tremendous question of who died was answered, another has been asked: who wants to keep watching?###The Walking Dead airs Sundays at 9pm on AMC in the States and Mondays at 9pm on Fox.###• Who is Negan in the comics? Meet The Walking Dead's new wicked’dreadful’undesirable’adverse’vile guy.