This The Walking Dead review contains spoilers.

The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 14

After The Walking Dead spent so much time building up The Commonwealth as a place where dreams can come true, it was only a matter of time for the truth behind the veneer to start showing. Nothing gold can stay, after all; when your community is built and maintained by fiction, eventually the fiction will start to fall apart. For The Commonwealth, that fiction has always been security. Armed guards in armor, high walls, and no walkers might be a pretty sweet deal, but that calm oasis of peace comes at a price, and the people of The Commonwealth have no idea what that price might be. If what we’ve seen from The Commonwealth’s soldiers in non-traditional missions is any indication, that hard-won peace might be both expensive and brittle.

At any point when The Commonwealth...