The Walking Dead
Last Day on Earth
TV Flash files “Last Day on Earth” as the last listed hour of season 6 — The Walking Dead (2010–2022) on AMC, season 6, episode 16, aired 2016-04-03, 90 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E16: listed hour 83 of 177 in the The Walking Dead guide, last listed hour of season 6. It aired 2016-04-03 (90 min). The listed hour before it is “East” (S06E15). Next is “The Day Will Come When You Won't Be” (S07E01).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In the aftermath of a tragic blow, Eugene falls captured by Dwight, a member of the Saviors, whom are hell bent on getting even with Alexandria, Negan teaches Rick and co a brutal lesson, which shows that Rick and co finally have something to fear.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Last Day on Earth sit in the The Walking Dead guide?
S06E16 is listed hour 83 of 177 — last listed hour of season 6, season 6 episode 16.
When did The Walking Dead S06E16 air?
Last Day on Earth aired 2016-04-03 and is listed at 90 minutes.
Where should I start?
Season 1, episode 1. Six hours. Then decide if you want a decade. The empty city is the sell.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch it for the Monday-night watercooler that ate a decade: barn debates, comic-vs-show death trials, and spinoff mitosis after the mothership closed. Horror as appointment TV. The group chat learned spoiler hygiene the hard way and still did not learn it.
So about last Monday, except last Monday was 2010 through 2022 and your group chat never recovered. AMC put a cop on a horse in an empty Atlanta and accidentally built the 2010s’ loudest watercooler. Horror as appointment TV. Ratings that made the network a personality. Then the deaths started arriving like group texts with no content warning. (I said spoiler-free. I meant the plot. The culture already litigated the barn, the baseball bat, the fair.) From here: mild. You can know the fandom without knowing who…
Filed against
- Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes
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- Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon
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- Danai Gurira as Michonne
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- Chandler Riggs as Carl Grimes
Chandler Riggs grew up as Carl Grimes on The Walking Dead — sheriff’s kid to survivor in cable’s zombie prestige decade. Public growing pains matched the apocalypse arc on a Monday-night watercooler that ate barn debates and death trials.…
- Lauren Cohan as Maggie Greene
Lauren Cohan’s Maggie Greene is The Walking Dead’s farm-to-fortress spine — AMC zombie TV as a decade-long spoiler war, barn debates, comic-versus-show death trials. Horror as Monday-night appointment. On TV Flash she is tentpole-genre…
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan
Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan is The Walking Dead as a Monday-night spoiler with a bat — zombie apocalypse as a decade-long group chat, comic-versus-show death trials included. AMC’s horror tentpole made appointment out of the undead. On TV…