It has been weeks since fans of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” have had to mull over all the heavy intentions of the Season 5 finale, and come to grips with the disturbing scene in which Deanna (Tovah Feldshuh) tells Rick (Andrew Lincoln) to go ahead and kill some poor drunk named Pete.

Recently Tovah Feldshuh spoke to Yahoo TV about her character and about the serious level of writing on the series, saying: “I just know that Deanna did her best to create a transparent, egalitarian society and that last speech in the last episode… you see a paradigm [shift] from the rule of law to the rule of swift justice.”

“That’s what is so crushing and crucial about the last episode,” said the 61-year-old actress and playwright.

Feldshuh believes that any good writer working in the finale of a season should put some deep hooks in for the upcoming season, which she says is exactly what Scott Gimple, the showrunner of the hit zombie show, has done.

“That guy is a fantastic writer and examiner of the possibilities of human nature, all the different permutations that don’t fit into a neat moral box about what makes us human beings,” she said of Gimple.

As someone who only knows what’s going on with her character on a week-by-week basis, Feldshuh says she was really happy to know that Deanna was still alive, saying: “Nobody ever wants to leave 'The Walking Dead'. You want to last as long as you can stay on it, because the darn thing is just so very good, so beloved by its viewers, because it goes very deep into the river of what it means to be alive in this world.”

The Tony Award-nominated actress finds the show to be quite philosophical.

“It raises questions about whether a bourgeois life kills the soul, a bourgeois protected and comfortable life versus a more stressful existence, which can be both horrendous but also very, very enlightening,” Feldshuh said.

“The Walking Dead” comes back to AMC this Fall.