NOOOOOOOO!





At the start of the episode I joked that they had gone over the approved limit of black characters.

I didn't mean it! Nooooooo!

Bodies chopped up outside the gated community - just the legs and arms? Then a van filled with zombie torsos? Like, wasaat all about hmmm?

HE'S GOING TO MAKE IT! Oh, he's dead.
And making you think they were burying Beth at the beginning; nice touch.

So yeah they killed Tyreese off, and he got a lovely extended death episode, whatever.

Too bad about tyreese, but i also made that joke that one of the black characters was going to die. A car with 3 blacks and 1 white?? In an american show??

So we're not talking about whether the Radio stories were current and potentially indicative of a governed state and decontaminated zone?

No, because they were blatantly about Rick's group going around killing everyone, and Tyrese not wanting to shy away from what they had done, in honour of his Dad.

At least, that's what I took from it.

So they've finally remembered Maggie and decided she gets to grieve for Beth, and Daryl gets his moment too. Awesome.

The group as a whole appears to have gone from indestructible army of zombie killing heroes, to all of a sudden borderline dying from dehydration and eating worms, so they have to try to get zombies to fall into ditches in a comical slapstick style rather than knifing them in the heads. No, really.

Salvation finally arrives in the form of rain (after they decide it's too dangerous to drink the MYSTERIOUS BOTTLES OF WATER left for them by 'a friend'), and they hole up in a barn to see the storm out.

You'd think by now they'd have learned to secure their premises, but no, they fucking literally leave the doors flapping in the breeze, with a chain vaguely holding them together with a gap about two feet wide in the middle, cue about the only excitement the episode sees as they all get to hold the doors against the zombie horde. Probably wouldn't have been such a bad idea to fucking lock the doors properly in the first place, eh?

The episode did end on an interesting note though, I'll give it that.

Also nice to see Maggie back in play as she's lovely to look at, as is that lesbian one.

I did wonder about that but from the scene the next day it looked like the storm had somehow taken them all out, almost like a spot of divine intervention. (Which seemed to be a bit of a running theme with the episode, with the gift of water appearing.) Sasha and Maggie said the next morning 'It should have taken us out' (or something like that) and the other one said something like 'But it didn't'. I think on balance you have to say the night time attack was real and not imagined.

There was clearly the track of a tornado that passed a few meters to the right of the barn, and they showed all the impaled zombies and whatever.

Perhaps It was an oversight that the team forgot to lock the doors correctly, but they were starving, thirsty and tired, and that can do strange things to a brain, so perhaps it can be explained that way. And as far why they were so worn out, as had been mentioned, they've traveled 40 miles, and can't find any water/food (as shown by the team returning from the woods and riverbeds empty handed)

Very much a filler episode, showing the loss of the previous episodes effecting the team, and setting up the new adventures of the "friend"