The episode opens with Daryl, Carol, and Antonio arriving simply in time to kill two males who’ve suspended Roberto above a horde of walkers. As soon as rescued, Roberto gasps a confession—Justina was taken once more. Carol’s repeated “Once more?” doesn’t land—it detonates, blowing open the secrets and techniques Fede tried to bury. The reality unravels: Justina demanded Fede cease La Ofrenda, or she would inform everybody in Solaz del Mar that he cheated to maintain her from being chosen. As an alternative of defending her, Fede despatched her away.
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| “Limbo” – THE WALKING DEAD DARYL DIXON, Eduardo Noriega as Antonio, Melissa McBride as Carol Peletier. Photograph Credit score: Carla Oset/AMC @2025 AMC Inc. All Rights Reserved |
Daryl and Carol conflict over whether or not to pursue El Alcazar’s convoy to retrieve Justina. Carol’s not at full power, so Daryl rides off alone towards Barcelona, whereas Antonio and Carol escort Roberto to the people healers—or “witches,” as Paz calls them. Fede suspects Carol and Antonio are mendacity about who damage Roberto. He’s proper. They’re protecting for Daryl and shopping for time for Roberto to get well.
From the second Roberto dangles above a sea of walkers, suspended in limbo between life and loss of life, the symbolism is obvious: that is the catalyst for Fede’s reckoning. His betrayal of Justina—selecting self-preservation over safety—units the complete episode in movement. Although he’s not confronted immediately, the lies instructed and the results unfolding round him mark him as a person already judged.
Spaghetti Western, Anybody?
Then the episode shifts exhausting. “Limbo” turns into a dust-swept, morally charged triumph—an episode that lastly delivers on the promise of mythic storytelling with a spaghetti Western soul, as Daryl, now within the excessive desert, turns into the lone anti-hero.
The showrunner nails the Western homage: Daryl in a grimy poncho, his silence punctuated by motorbike engines, gunfire, and groaning walkers. Shut-ups of his eyes above a bandana mirror the bandit’s gaze. Lengthy digicam photographs of a walker-powered practice and Daryl driving alone into Spain’s mist evoke Sergio Leone-level grandeur.
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| “Limbo” – THE WALKING DEAD DARYL DIXON, Pictured: Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon. Photograph Credit score: Carla Oset/AMC @2025 AMC Inc. All Rights Reserved |
The violence is stylized however coherent—lastly. Daryl meets a person with gouged eyes begging for water. He offers it to him. The person drinks greedily, then laughs: “The bone crushers (vultures) are coming.” The vultures echo Jadis’s scavenger gang. They too had been watchers. Jadis mentioned of them: “We take. We don’t hassle.” The scavengers and vultures exist on the edges—watching, ready, calculating. They don’t trigger loss of life; they arrive after. Metaphorically, they’re the sentence, not the decision.
Daryl finds sanctuary amongst Mateo and the Lepers—individuals residing in limbo, not fairly lifeless, not fairly alive. He’s given water, then instantly asks for extra—a superb echo of the sooner scene with the person with no eyes. It’s at this second that Daryl learns that the city’s water was stolen by the identical bandits who took his bike. The group can survive for 4 extra days…until Daryl chooses to assist.
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| “Limbo” – THE WALKING DEAD DARYL DIXON, Luis Bondia as Mateo. Photograph Credit score: Carla Oset/AMC @2025 AMC Inc. All Rights Reserved |
Rosa, the kid who watches Daryl at night time, turns into the episode’s emotional compass. Her gaze forces him to behave. Mateo believes in Daryl; Amaia doesn’t. Amaia lives among the many lepers, and her ethical authority is unshakable. However she has doubts, saying: “I feel you permit us to die,” as she tosses Daryl the automobile keys. Her doubt reverberates.
Daryl research an previous map. Is he planning his escape to Barcelona or the leper group’s salvation? Time passes. Pressure builds. Then Daryl leads the bandits into city for one of many season’s most thrilling sequences. Rosa marks every shot within the filth—her counting turns into a ticking clock. The juxtaposition of childlike innocence and lethal precision is narratively wealthy.
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| “Limbo” – THE WALKING DEAD DARYL DIXON, Pictured: Nansi Nsue as Amaia. Photograph Credit score: Carla Oset/AMC @2025 AMC Inc. All Rights Reserved |
Reckoning and Redemption
The ultimate duel is pure Western catharsis. Daryl stands ramrod straight because the bandit screams—racing towards him on a motorcycle. The large shot of the bandit’s loss of life is satisfying, although I half-hoped for a decapitation. Nonetheless, Daryl is the final man standing.
Manufacturing-wise, “Limbo” is off the charts. Walkers pulling a practice? A grotesque, surreal metaphor worthy of Leone. The practice combat? Brutal, human, and refreshingly grounded. Each males pausing mid-combat to catch their breath—lastly, realism in style TV.
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| “Limbo” – THE WALKING DEAD DARYL DIXON, India Soria as Rosa. Photograph Credit score: Carla Oset/AMC@2025 AMC Inc. All Rights Reserved |
Narratively, the episode is tight: a transparent arc, emotional stakes, and two reprisals that deepen the story. Daryl’s allegiance to Justina and the lepers doesn’t ask for applause. It’s the type of readability that surfaces when justice outweighs consolation—the identical ethical intuition that made Rick and Morgan unforgettable within the pilot, now honed by communal stakes and desert grit.
Not Every little thing Lands—and But…
The budding relationship between Carol and Antonio lands awkwardly. Carol inviting Antonio to Ohio feels wildly untimely, particularly in an episode in any other case grounded in grit and restraint. And Carol’s line to Valentina—“Has anybody instructed you that you are a attractive previous lady?”—was a tonal misfire. It undercut the episode’s emotional weight with pointless cringe. The present doesn’t want pressured flirtation or low-cost laughs when it’s already working at mythic scale.
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| “Limbo” – THE WALKING DEAD DARYL DIXON, Melissa McBride as Carol Peletier. Photograph Credit score: Carla Oset/AMC @2025 AMC Inc. All Rights Reserved |
And but, “Limbo” isn’t merely good tv. It’s cinematic mythmaking. The viewers’ cup runneth over.
Did “Limbo” lastly ship the mythic tone this season has been reaching for? Do you assume anybody from Solaz del Mar will likely be on that boat again to America with Carol and Daryl? Let me know within the feedback.
Total Score: 10/10
