--- title: The Walking Dead Fans React to Season Finale's Cliffhanger description: The 16th episode of The Walking Dead‘s sixth season aired on Sunday and ended with the the AMC drama's (arguably) biggest cliffhanger yet. canonical: https://time.com/4280490/walking-dead-fans-react-season-finale-cliffhanger/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-04T14:55:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:31:19.541Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Here's Why 'Walking Dead' Fans Are Upset About That Cliffhanger og:description: Spoiler alert! og:url: https://time.com/4280490/walking-dead-fans-react-season-finale-cliffhanger/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcf38f63730a3a09c/69888d91cf40a863d0c42a78/negan-the-walking-dead-amc1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Negan-The-Walking-Dead-AMC og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's Why 'Walking Dead' Fans Are Upset About That Cliffhanger twitter:description: Spoiler alert! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcf38f63730a3a09c/69888d91cf40a863d0c42a78/negan-the-walking-dead-amc1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's Why _The Walking Dead_ Fans Are Annoyed About That Cliffhanger > Sponsored content. 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However, after a season spent [teasing the death](http://time.com/4106567/negan-walking-dead-jeffrey-dean-morgan/) of a major character at the hands of the [villainous Negan](http://time.com/4272302/negan-walking-dead-trailer-season-finale/), many viewers weren’t pleased with the inconclusive final scene. As the episode drew to a close, the [leader of the Saviors](http://time.com/4194632/walking-dead-villains-ranking/) had Rick and almost every other key Alexandrian right where he wanted them, kneeling at his feet. The only question left was which hero would be the one to meet their end at the hands of Negan and Lucille, his infamous barbwire-covered baseball bat. And someone did die before the scene cut to black, but thanks to some camera angle trickery, fans were still left wondering who. **Read More:** [Here’s What Happened in the Season Finale of _The Walking Dead_](http://time.com/4280235/walking-dead-season-finale/?xid=time%5Fsocialflow%5Ftwitter) Executive producers Scott M. Gimple and Robert Kirkman appeared on _Talking Dead_ immediately following the show and spoke about the cliffhanger, claiming it was setting up a larger storyline that would be explored next season. “The cliffhanger isn’t the story,” Kirkman said, according to [_Entertainment Weekly_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/04/03/walking-dead-season-finale-robert-kirkman-scott-gimple)_._ “The story of the episode, and Scott and Matt Negrete did such a great job of setting up how confident Rick was going into this. This episode is about the loss of that confidence. It’s about changing that mindset. It’s about tearing Rick Grimes down and that’s the conclusion of this story. So while it does seem like a cliffhanger, that’s the conclusion. And the story of who died, the story of what comes next, of who Negan killed, of what comes after that, that’s really the story of season 7.” However, many fans still felt dissatisfied, taking to social media to voice their complaints. > [](https://twitter.com/BookishTribute/status/716931682360811520) > [](https://twitter.com/j%5Fmac61/status/716957229740638208) > [](https://twitter.com/mersher1/status/716920612397166592) > [](https://twitter.com/joemurray26/status/716824891568340992) > [](https://twitter.com/GaryHoller/status/716824828767051776) > [](https://twitter.com/politicalteach/status/716821580307890176) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4280490/walking-dead-fans-react-season-finale-cliffhanger/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4280490/walking-dead-fans-react-season-finale-cliffhanger/"},"headline":"Here's Why The Walking Dead Fans Are Annoyed About That Cliffhanger","datePublished":"2016-04-04T14:55:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:31:19.541Z","description":"Spoiler alert!","url":"https://time.com/4280490/walking-dead-fans-react-season-finale-cliffhanger/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","TV","Walking Dead"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcf38f63730a3a09c/69888d91cf40a863d0c42a78/negan-the-walking-dead-amc1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcf38f63730a3a09c/69888d91cf40a863d0c42a78/negan-the-walking-dead-amc1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Negan-The-Walking-Dead-AMC","caption":"Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan - The Walking Dead _ Season 6, Episode 16 - Photo Credit: Gene Page/AMC","creditText":"Gene Page—AMC","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4280490/walking-dead-fans-react-season-finale-cliffhanger/","name":"Here's Why The Walking Dead Fans Are Annoyed About That Cliffhanger"}}]}] ```