***Warning: Spoilers are included in this post***
Andrew Lincoln, perhaps better known to you as Rick Grimes, has just two words to describe the second half of The Walking Dead Season 5: "f**cking nuts!"
Speaking to EW, Lincoln didn't reveal any spoilers, but did give us warning that the latter half of the season, which has already seen the death of one major character in Beth, is going to be crazy.
"I’m really, really half terrified, half so excited to see how people view the way the story goes," Lincoln said of The Walking Dead's second half. "I mean it's completely uncompromising and it’s almost like there’s a mini pilot episode in the middle of the season and it’s nuts. It’s f**king nuts!"
"I can’t explain what it was like doing it, but it was pretty crazy — just an amazing experience," he continued.
Talking a bit more about tonight's episode, Lincoln described it as "extraordinary."
"I will say that episode 9 ["What Happened and What's Going On"] is probably my favorite episode," he said. "It's an extraordinary episode. I don't know what it looks like, but when I read it, it had the same effect on me as 314. It was so tight and smart and moving. I mean it's incredibly moving, but it's a really, really cool episode."
Speaking of moving, it looks like the group will be moving towards Washington D.C. in the remaining episodes, if the two minute clip of tonight's mid-season premiere is any indication.
As for the rest of Season 5, Lincoln went on to say that "It's such a radically different show, the back eight episodes."
"I think that people have to be prepared for it. We also go very dark and then something different happens in the story which I think is going to breathe incredible new life further down the road for the show," he said.
I don't read The Walking Dead comics, so I don't know if he's alluding to a certain event in them. Either way, I'm excited/nervous. I have no idea where the rest of this season will take us, but the journey starts tonight with the return of The Walking Dead Season 5 at 9:00pm Eastern on AMC.
