The Walking Dead consists of a fluidly affiliated chain of spin-off programs, one of which included Andrew Lincoln himself, reprising his role as Rick Grimes in an attempt to get free from prison and get back to his family. In an earlier conversation with Empire, Andrew Lincoln discusses his experience on the show and, most intriguingly, offers his thoughts on the most contentious narrative twist in the trajectory of the programme. He says, “I do still think [Glenn’s death] might have been when we over-egged the omelette, Maybe it was lingering too much.”
On the big screen, Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan, a vicious boss who wants to crush Andrew Lincoln’s character Rick Grimes by hitting Glenn in the skull with a baseball bat laced in metallic wire called “Lucille,” put a stop to Glenn’s trip. This sequence, which made people bite the edge of their nails, was contentious in its initial configuration and throughout the adaptation.
17 million people watched the show at its highest point during the season 5 premiere, which featured Glenn’s death. However, the show dropped two million spectators the following week, and a few years later, it only had the support of 1.5 million views per season. However, 2.2 million watched the series’ conclusion.
He adds furthermore in his interview, “Maybe it was lingering too much.” He describes the filming as one of “the most intense nights of shooting I’ve ever been part of,” pushing Morgan—who he describes as “one of the nicest guys you’re ever going to meet, playing one of the most unpleasant characters”—to the very limit. Lincoln remembers, “He had to do this extraordinary monologue on his first day at work, and everybody was on their knees and weeping when they weren’t on camera. [Morgan] came over and went, ‘Is this normal?’ I went, ‘Yeah, everybody just keeps going. It was an extraordinary night.”