Leah's Return Makes Walking Dead's Commonwealth Story Too Convoluted

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Does Leah's return to The Walking Dead make season 11's Commonwealth storyline more complicated than it needs to be? Mirroring the original comic book series by Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead's final TV arc revolves around the Commonwealth — a massive community hellbent on bringing back pre-virus civilization warts-and-all. As The Walking Dead is wont to do, the TV adaptation throws many more ingredients into the pot compared to its streamlined source material, and the latest splash in AMC's Commonwealth soup is Leah.

Played by Lynn Collins, Leah debuted in The Walking Dead season 10 as Daryl Dixon's mysterious forest romance, then disappeared into the night, never to be seen again until season 11, where she reappears as a villainous Reaper. Following a tense showdown, Leah is defeated and sent on the run in The Walking Dead's «No Other Way» (season 11, episode 9), but while some suspected her journey wouldn't resume until AMC's Daryl & Carol spinoff series, Lynn Collins makes an unexpected return as early as «The Rotten Core» (season 11, episode 14).

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Leah could be the straw that breaks The Walking Dead's Commonwealth arc. An influx of TV-original plot points have posed numerous Commonwealth questions, but very few have actually been developed, leaving The Walking Dead's mystery inbox piling up. Leah is the latest addition to that ever-growing number, and with only a scant handful of episodes remaining (10 as of «The Rotten Core»), The Walking Dead faces a challenge to provide resolution on all fronts.

After more than a decade of live-action zombie shenanigans, audiences are completely familiar with The Walking Dead's formula of using comic