‘Walking Dead’s Danai Gurira On Tonight’s ‘Ones Who Live’ Finale, Reunions, Renewal & Redemption

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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live Season 1 finale. “There was always something about the connection of these two characters,” Danai Gurira says of The Walking Dead’s Michonne and Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and the reunion of the lovers over near insurmountable odds and legions of Walkers in spinoff The Ones Who Live. “The plan was always that we would complete this love story in a new form.” It is fitting in many ways that Michonne and Rick’s love story comes full circle on a day of renewal like Easter Sunday.

While there is no official word if there will be more The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live or Michonne and Rick, certainly the saving of swaths of humanity and the reunion with their children Judith (Cailey Fleming) and R.J. (Antony Azor) at the end of tonight’s Season 1 finale is as fulfilling as any fan of the zombie apocalypse franchise could ask for.

Having debuted on February 25 after what seemed like years of delays, the six spinoffs in the TWDverse saw Grimes a cog in the machine of the Civic Republic Military in what used to be Philadelphia and Michonne trekking up the East Coast of what used to be the United States of America to finally find him.

Initially set as a series of Rick Grimes movies, the ‘The Last Time’ finale of the first season of the six-episode Scott Gimple, Gurira and Lincoln created Ones Who Live literally held not just the fate of Rick and Michonne in its hand but the whole human race.