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RECAP
AMC's The Walking Dead takes you to the edge of your seat. On an infiltration mission that Rick had co-contrived with Michonne, on the overrun prison cells and the interrogation venues, your mind is toyed vigorously on who's adding up to the season's death toll or who's going to be re-animated as a walker. This week's episode called "When the Dead Come Knocking" is an epitomy of that apprehension, a brisk, tense and suspenseful episode if not for performances from The Governor, Merle, Michonne, Rick and a few of the remaining humankind.
Last week, we witnessed how Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Glenn (Steven Yeun) were taken by Merle (Michael Rooker) and were sent to Woodbury to squeeze out intel. Both are loved characters of mine, and I'm in faith that I represent a chunk of viewers, so watching their grim interrogation scenes was a struggle. I found myself anxious when Merle purposefully broke free of a walker and leave it with Glenn in a locked down room, but I was kept shut in those moments when the deeply creepy Governor (David Morrissey) semi-rapes Maggie. You have to give it to the guy, he's genuinely scary and you have no damn idea of what his move's going to be next.
The past few weeks were all character development and how their emotions arouse when a couple of important people passed away, especially Lori, who breathed life to her newborn daughter Judith (yes, they've named her a name now) at the expense of her own life, son's agony and husband's temporal madness. Tonight it's on an opposite route, as we are faced to a lot of action. The old action and gore is - hallelujah - in sight, in scenes in particular where badly hurt Michonne (Danai Gurira) tries to fight her way through a horde of walkers and Glenn's grapple with one while his hands are duct taped to the arms of a chair. Those sequences were tense, brutal and breathtaking.
Director Daniel Sackheim understood the need of revisiting the elements that we all used to love from the beginning, but still use what is currently on hand: Merle and the Governor. I swear to God, I'm glued to the series purely because of their characters. Carol (Melissa McBride) actually made it and does a minute or so of hugging and rubbing elbows with the remnants of the group (it's obviously not a lot, but I'm kind of rooting for her character and her sprouting romance with Daryl). Carl (Chandler Riggs) is incredible as always, but same issues surround the episode still. Carl is underexposed, there is a lot of room for dramatic turns for him, and it's quite confusing how the creators are ignoring this. Andrea (Laurie Holden) is still flirtatious and slutty and soultry as hell, which is - let's face it - what we all liked about her from the start.
And finally, for the love of God, will someone get Beth (Emily Kinney) something to do with the show? Too tired watching her as a backdrop.
NEXT WEEK'S PROMOS
Next week's episode looks sick as hell, as Rick's four-men troop breaks in to Woodbury and try to retrieve Glenn and Maggie but "Andrea steps up when the people of Woodbury are thrown into uncharted territory; a new threat arises at the prison." The episode is called "Made to Suffer," watch the promos below:
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