Hershel Gets Ahead – The Walking Dead
Okay, so The Walking Dead is another show that’s all about pushing boundaries and buttons. This moment takes the cake though because we ALL liked Hershel. He was pretty much the one voice of reason as Rick was beginning to lose his mind and talk to his dead wife on a broken phone and shit. He is also the one person that just seemed legit.
At no point did any of us worry that Hershel was suddenly gonna turn and kill one of his daughters or something. He was very much the patriarch of the group. As we all know though, on a show like this, when a character gets that well loved, you know that goodbye time is close by.
Regardless of the fact that we could sense it coming, when the Governor buried his machete into the neck of Hershel, then hacked away at it until it lobbed to the ground, well, that was tough to watch. The scene was made even more brutal by the fact that his two young daughters were watching it happen, too.
Truth is, everyone at the camp who loved Hershel up to that point was forced to watch it. While it may have kicked off a pretty epic final prison battle, it was still a violent and jarring death for one of the only characters on that show everyone liked. It was like watching Santa get his head hacked off or something. It just didn’t feel right.
But shit, it made for some damn good TV. Brutal, but still damn good.