Father doesn’t just know best, he’s the only one whose knowledge or lack thereof means anything at all.
One of the first things we see in the astonishing and consistently thrilling finale of the show’s fifth season is a rabbit’s foot.
Rick is seemingly also showing new colors, getting a bit more comfortable with the Alexandria folk and paying especial attention to Jessie.
Up until the final 10 minutes of the episode, what’s most remarkable about “Them” is its sense of quiet.
There’s no denying the eerie pull of that last scene, the true horror of cynicism and paranoia turning humans into eaters of their own flesh.
The episode offers insight into why Rick drifted into the background of the show’s main story.
Negotiation is a recurring theme in “Us,” the penultimate episode of The Walking Dead’s fourth season.
The Walking Dead is often at its most compelling whenever it stresses the relative silence that’s taken over the world.
It understatedly teases the imagination with new possibilities for how The Walking Dead will explore the psyches of its characters.
It takes shape rather unexpectedly, with four short, open-ended vignettes following different groupings of characters that made it out of the prison.
One of the more noteworthy elements of “Isolation” is that it’s not nearly as Rick-centric as most episodes.
After last week’s quiet game of setup, the action starts fast and strong in the second episode of The Walking Dead’s fourth season.
It specifically reinforces that character depth and exposition are not among the show’s strong suits.
It looks toward John Ford’s “print the legend” quote, as the series is less interested in how the apocalypse happened than what happens next.
Wayne Kramer thankfully refuses to cloak his excessiveness in hedge-betting self-consciousness and the result is a gratifyingly disreputable B-movie blow out.
The alignment with Herman’s perspective, even as it never downplays the gravity of his crimes, leads the film into a set of obvious conclusions.
The film distinguishes itself as an often affecting look at two people just trying to get by.
For all the anticipation and careful setup over the last several episodes, the show’s mid-season finale was somewhat anticlimactic.
The episode’s strongest moments are toward the end, when Rick takes a small team and heads off to Woodbury under Michonne’s lead.
Rick’s storyline is one of several in which characters strike up or rekindle a connection.