Carol’s baking cookies.
Daryl’s helping out Jerky McJerkface.
Zombies are getting laughs.
Melissa McBride on ‘The Walking Dead’.Josh Stringer/AMC
Showrunner Angela Kang breaks down “New Haunts.”
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Sunday’s episode ofThe Walking Dead, “New Haunts.”
Uh oh, someone let Carol near the cookies again!
Melissa McBride on ‘The Walking Dead’.Josh Stringer/AMC
And that can’t be good news for the people in power at the Commonwealth.
And she knew what to do and where to go to get it.
Why would Daryl do such a thing?
Norman Reedus on ‘The Walking Dead’.Josh Stringer/AMC
What’s Carol’s long game?
We asked showrunnerAngela Kangall that and more.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Can you tells us about starting the episode with the zombie haunted house pump-fake?
That was a super fun way to start the episode.
ANGELA KANG:Yeah, I believe that was a pitch from Magali Lozano.
It is fun, scary to them.
And that is pretty surreal for somebody like Judith and R.J., who have grown up under different circumstances.
I do not know if you all made that connection at all, but I immediately went there.
We can pretend to be scared."
What was it like coming up with what kind of jobs everyone was going to get in the Commonwealth?
For us, it’s really fun to think about what people did.
And so that was really cool to kind of put him back into tending to animals.
You see he is great at it.
And he is so gentle with the children and with the animals.
Was there ever any doubt that Carol would be making cookies at the bakery?
We were like, what did Carol do?
It actually makes sense that she would just work a nice retail bakery job.
It’s a very benign job.
And we wanted to have that kind of play.
We thought it would be really fun to have her coming out with the cookies.
We thought that would be a lot of fun.
So what is going on here with Carol and Lance Hornsby?
She gets him some wine for a favor.
How is that relationship going to look going forward?
And I think that just tells you something about what society was like for her.
And she pretty quickly keys into who moves things at the Commonwealth and who gets things done.
So that becomes kind of an important relationship going forward.
Let’s talk a little bit about Daryl.
Why does he ultimately allow Jerky McJerkface there to take credit for capturing the waiter with the knife?
Obviously Mercer gave him a little talking-to earlier and some advice.
Why does he decide to go down that path?
So even when he becomes a trooper, he is literally disappearing behind this trooper mask.
Daryl does not care about getting credit.
I can only imagine how happy Norman was to get some Motorhead into an episode.
He must have been ecstatic to have that be part of the soundtrack.
Magali came up with putting in that song, and we were so happy to put it in.
What Rosita kind of stumbles into, she is starting to see the underbelly of this place.
We saw a lot of what the citizens are seeing day-to-day.
We are seeing what the rich get to see versus what everybody else gets to experience.
And what does it mean that there are people who have this level of discontent here?
What’s coming up next week?
We are going to get deeper into the story of the Commonwealth.
Michael Cudlitz came back to direct this and did an amazing job.
And it has got a really cool classic cinematic vibe.
