Danai Gurira previews 'The Walking Dead' Season 4 second half and Michonne's arc

The midseason finale of The Walking Dead ended in tragedy as The Governor literally ripped down the walls of the prison and scattered the survivors to who-knows-where. One of the question marks heading into the second half of the season is Michonne, who we last saw stabbing the Governor amid the chaos.

In an interview with EW.com, Danai Gurira previews what's next for her character and also talks more broadly about the state of the survivors as the final eight episodes of the season get underway. This Sunday's new episode, "After," will focus on Michonne and her past, but Gurira teases that there are larger concerns upcoming.

"For the most part this show has been one big group. Now that everybody seems to be splintered off into smaller groups, how will that change the show?
I think Andy [star Andrew Lincoln] said it best. There's space around events in a way that is definitely different. There is a lot of honing in on people and their experiences and their inner turmoil and outward trauma. There's a lot more getting to know everybody. We're not functioning in an ensemble-like way anymore because the group is fractured. What I love about that is that looking at it from a macro-perspective it is fantastic storytelling-wise because in the little research that I've done I learned that one of the key elements of war is displacement. People are caught up in the concern of where people are and what happened to them and not having any way of finding out. That's such a rich, authentic component of what really happens in a war zone. So I think that's really thrilling that's going to be rippling through the back eight."

It's unclear how long it will take for the survivors to reunite, but it looks like they've got a difficult road ahead of them.

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