Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Zombie-apocalypse drama, The Walking Dead, ended its 11-season run on AMC Sunday with two devastating character deaths, a one-year time jump and mostly positive outlooks for the futures of the survivors.

The penultimate episode of the series based on Robert Kirkman's comic books showed longtime characters Daryl (Norman Reedus), Carol (Melissa McBride), Ezekiel (Khary Payton), Connie (Lauren Ridloff), Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Maggie (Lauren Cohan), Gabriel (Seth Gilliam), Rosita (Christian Serratos), Judith (Cailey Fleming), Yumiko (Eleanoe Matsuura), Magna (Nadia Hilker), Kelly (Angel Theory) and Luke (Dan Fogler) -- trapped by hordes of ravenous flesh-eaters after they attempted to wrestle control of the Commonwealth community from tyrannical Gov. Pamela Milton (Laila Robins).

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Sunday's episode saw Luke getting his legs munched by walkers, then taken to a hospital where his closest friends comforted him before putting him out of his misery.

Father Gabriel risks his life to confront Pamela, insisting she open the gates to the compound to let in thousands of endangered humans before they can be eaten by the approaching undead.