Sunday's episode of The Walking Dead, "New Best Friends," introduced yet another new community and location into the mix -- a group of emotionless scavengers who live in a junkyard and have regressed to a primitive form of language in which conjunctions no longer exist. [...] he was able to answer some of our other questions, like confirming that there's definitely a Mad Max influence on this episode thanks to production designer Grace Walker, whose history working on George Miller's postapocalyptic action franchise has been referenced on the show previously. [...] a big shoutout to makeup special effects artist Gino Crognale, who took the abuse as Winslow the Pinhead Walker. Was Mad Max a conscious influence on this episode?