“I hate that word.”

That’s The Walking Dead executive producer Greg Nicotero‘s reaction when faced with the ever-growing online popularity of “Ricktatorship,” a term that picked up steam after protagonist Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) proclaimed that the struggling group of zombie-apocalypse survivors were no longer living in a democracy last season. If they were going to survive, it was going to be under his authority. And thus, a Ricktatorship was born.

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That Ricktatorship is only implied when the AMC zombie drama returns Sunday (9/8c). The gang has been on the road for…

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