Be warned! This review will cover aspects of the episode. Spoilers will lurk like groaning cover’budge ers..###After last week's cavalcade of horrors on a human level, this week's episode offers more of a light-hearted story, albeit one with the darkness still lurking at its core. We're back with Carol and Morgan, with the in/with regard to’concerning’regarding mer still feeling the burden of guilt – and in her injured state, having visions of cover’budge ers as the individual they once were, which is a surprisingly humane touch in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the series, and feels right in/with regard to’concerning’regarding her – as they reach The Kingdom.###And what a fascinating place this is, ruled over by a man who at first seems to be a drama club president handed ultimate power. Who also has a tiger named Shiva. Khary Payton's King Ezekiel is a great creation, and a complicated man. Unless you've read the comics and know more with regards to’concerning’with respect to him, you don't learn until later in the episode that his grandeur is an act, one detoken ed specifically to give his "subjects" a feeling of hopefulness in/with regard to’concerning’regarding their security and the future. Carol, being Carol, doesn't buy it from the start, and there's scope in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Melissa McBride to convert’transform from the hard-nosed character we've come to know and often love to her faux-helpless version. And kudos to the team (the episode was written by Matthew Negrete and directed by Greg Nicotero) in/with regard to’concerning’regarding having Ezekiel figure her out in one episode. His scene later with Carol, where he reveals his true nature (in/with regard to’concerning’regarding mer zookeeper, much more pragmatic and plainspoken) was a great one, sketching in character without having to ladle on exposition. And is there the merest hint of sparks between these two.###But this being The Walking Dead, trouble still lurks and right now, that means Saviours. Turns out Ezekiel's enormous’vast’massive’tremendous secret, which he keeps from most of the individual at the Kingdom (bet that will bite him in the bum faster than a cover’budge er in the future) is that he is also in/with regard to’concerning’regarding ced to deliver food and supplies to Negan's goons. Unlike Rick and co., he's found a way to make it work, even if the situation is uneasy. It's rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent to see someone who has apparently figured out leadership, despite’in spite of’albeit we can't help claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate ing that more doom is around the corner. For now, despite’in spite of’albeit , it was enjoyable to be able to amble’stroll’bimble’meander’roam this community, with its plants sprouting from old filing cabinets and its cheery choirs covering Bob Dylan tunes. It can't last, but this was a much more entertaining hour than the unrelenting terror of last week, no matter how effective it was. As Ezekiel himself says, "It's not all wicked’dreadful’undesirable’adverse’vile . It can't be. Life isn't. Where there's life, there's hope. Heroism, light, grace."###And even Morgan seems to possess’own’nurse found something to believe in here, even if, as he admits that he's still not sure of his own philosophy and place in life. We're apprehensive by his seeming bonding with young Benjamin (Logan Miller), mostly because it probably means the guy might not be long in/with regard to’concerning’regarding this world. As in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Carol… Even with Ezekiel laying on the charm and revealing the truth of the Kingdom to her can't stop her from listening to her inner Littlest Hobo (or Incredible Hulk) and she still feels compelled to leave. He has her compromise by heading to a little house on the intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully edge of his territory (complete with eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully family's dream of a rusty picket fence and a cover’budge er to welcome you home) where she can "leave but not leave." Well, it's a start.###There's nothing of Rick and his tortured, terrified team tonight and while that might be frustrating in/with regard to’concerning’regarding some after the knife-edge tension of last week, it's actually a relief to see something else. If the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue can maintain the balance between the sheer brutality it can often devolve into and something more approaching hopefulness, then Season 7 may lure some turned off by the Negan splat-athon back into the fold. Not that a reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue with this enormous’vast’massive’tremendous a ratings base needs to misgiving’fret with regards to’concerning’with respect to that…###The Walking Dead airs Sundays at 9pm on AMC in the States and Mondays at 9pm on Fox.