How ‘The Walking Dead’ Fans Reacted To The Show’s Emotionally Gutting Deaths

Spoilers for this week’s The Walking Dead will be found below.

This week’s episode of The Walking Dead, compared to the Red Wedding episode of Game of Thrones, delivered arguably the biggest series of blows in the show’s nine seasons. During the episode, Alpha paid a visit to the Festival, and after a confrontation with her daughter, Lydia, Alpha and The Whisperers absconded with numerous captives, killing them all — except for Siddiq — cutting off their heads, impaling them on pikes and officially marking their territory with a fence of decapitated heads.

When all was said and done, The Whisperers had killed Alec, Ozzy, DJ, Frankie, Tammy Rose, Rodney, Adeline, Enid, Tara, and Henry. The last three were particularly surprising because, in the comics, the big names on those stakes were Ezekiel, Rosita, and Luke, which meant that Angela Kang not only devastated The Walking Dead audience but threw comic-book readers for a loop, especially considering the misdirect where it concerns Rosita’s pregnancy earlier in the season.

Ultimately, the hardest part of the reveal was not the deaths themselves, but the reaction of those who found the piked heads: Yumika, Michonne, Daryl, and especially Carol, who had already lost one child and now had to lose another.

The reaction of The Walking Dead fans could best be described as stunned. Even before that scene came, viewers could sense something about was about to go down.

— Fentyr (@FentyrTweets) March 25, 2019

current mood #thewalkingdead pic.twitter.com/ZkFnolWRSa

— lis (@vetoslayer) March 25, 2019

Oh shit……is that scene coming up #thewalkingdead

— The Pothound (@The_Pothound) March 25, 2019

This episode has me stressing tf out #TheWalkingDead

— Brittney Thacker (@BrittyChelle) March 25, 2019

guys my chest hurts i actually think i’m going to have a heart attack #TheWalkingDead

— natalie (@natalieerin_s) March 25, 2019

AMC

And when the row of heads finally arrived, Twitter lost its mind.

— Flávia . (@flaviabm90) March 25, 2019

OMG I can't! Stop it. Stop it. Make it stop. #TheWalkingDead

— Kirstie (#KeepPounding) (@kmccloud628) March 25, 2019

They killed so many, man #TheWalkingDead

— RNLD (@WILCHILD03) March 25, 2019

Aaaaaaaaaasaaahhhhhh. #TheWalkingDead

— ian keith (@IanIankeith) March 25, 2019

No words… #twd #thewalkingdead pic.twitter.com/AAfDt1DcWq

— Kieran (@kroo12_) March 25, 2019

Omg my heart can't take this. #TheWalkingDead #TWD

— thank u, next (@tough_as_nads) March 25, 2019

Me the minute they cut to Alden and Luke and I realized what that meant #TheWalkingDead pic.twitter.com/5dPTk1CEC7

— Emily Longeretta (@emilylongeretta) March 25, 2019

HOLY SHIT!!! #TheWalkingDead

— Dr Melei (@DrMelei) March 25, 2019

I knew it was coming but I was not prepared #TheWalkingDead

— angelica (@sapphopenelope) March 25, 2019

WHAT THE FUCK!! #thewalkingdead

— Rick Grimes (@TheRickyGrimes) March 25, 2019

— what (@be___human) March 25, 2019

NOT TARA!! #TheWalkingDead

— Kristina Leigh Winn (@_KtinaLeigh_) March 25, 2019

Oh hell no. You done killed Carol's kid, again. Plus Tara. Alpha got to die! #twd #thewalkingdead

— Denise T (@neicyt98) March 25, 2019

ENID & HENRY & TARA MY HEART WHATS WRONG WITH YOU GUYS IM BAWLINB MY EYES OUT #TheWalkingDead

— savanna raye (@rayeduchamp) March 25, 2019

I thought it was going to be Ezekiel’s head they were going to show last, not Henry! #DemDeadz #TheWalkingDead

— Kamala T'Chaka Khan Harris (@NectarousD) March 25, 2019

Daryl running to stop Carol from looking …. OMG… it's too much … I can't …. Lawd!!! #TWDFam #TWDFamily #TalkingDead #TheWalkingDead #TWD pic.twitter.com/T02YhUwa9h

— Nerdy Nicole Cosplay (Candiss Nicole) (@CandissNicole) March 25, 2019

This is so much worse then I expected to feel! Poor Carol…#TheWalkingDead

— Conni Spellman (@auntconni) March 25, 2019

NOOOOOOOO WHY HENRY !!!!!!!!!!! Oh My God !!!!!!!!!!! #TheWalkingDead

— Appreciate Me❤ (@XoxoFree_Hugs) March 25, 2019

I can’t remember the last time I was this shocked after an episode of #TheWalkingDead @AMCTalkingDead

— Holley Long (@HolleyLong_) March 25, 2019

#TWD #TheWalkingDead pic.twitter.com/lWqP197CMD

— Octavia A. Thompson (@othompson215) March 25, 2019

How will members of The Hilltop, Alexandra, Oceanside, and The Kingdom recover after losing ten of their own Who will replace Tara as the head of The Hilltop Will Carol survive another heartbreaking child’s death Tune into this Sunday’s season finale to find out.