Carl Grimes, Crock-Pots, and the new culture of spoilers

Carl Grimes is dead! So is Jack Pearson! Who needs a spoiler alert? Both of these story points are common knowledge.

Spoilers used to be anathema on social media. But a funny thing happened in December when Carl Grimes began the journey that would ultimately end his fictional life: The internet couldn’t stop talking about it.

After the younger half of The Walking Dead‘s central family took a zombie bite to the abdomen during December’s mid-season finale, AMC couldn’t act fast enough to let everyone know it was real. Actor Chandler Riggs made it clear in an interview published that very night: “Yes, Carl is going to die.” Read more…

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