The Walking Dead season 5 episode 10 review

The group is at a weird point in their journey. There's no food. There's no water. There's no gasoline. They're short two friends (and relatives). Everyone seems to be at a point where they're ready to die. As Rick says, “We are the walking dead,” and they definitely look it. Pushed to the point of exhaustion, the group is low on everything you need to survive, but especially the will to keep going. There's a reason Michonne wanted to hang out in a zombie-infested gated community.

This episode comes at the perfect time in the season. After the startling death of Beth followed closely by the startling death of Tyreese, it's not surprising that the show's cast of characters are feeling a little morose. Hungry and tired and slowly dying? Not a lot of room for optimism there, and the show has turned as morose and moody as a pubescent boy who hasn't seen a girl close to his own age since she was feeding rats to zombies at the prison fence.

It's good stuff, really. Unlike the interminable talking of the second season, it seems like the writing staff has a handle on how to have characters process grief without just babbling on about it. In small groups and twos, the characters closest to Tyreese and Beth chew their way through their grief sandwiches in terse, quiet conversations. It works because nobody really belabours the point like they once did. They're communicating in body language and sentence fragments at this point, sneaking off to grieve in silence or lashing out violently against the undead as they rear their rotting heads. Even some of the more on-the-nose stuff, like Rick's “walking dead” line, ended up working because of how it was delivered, and the situation it was delivered in. Full credit to writer Heather Bellson for taking something that was clunky and laughable in the comic and making it work on screen better than it should have, and credit to Andrew Lincoln for being the steady, guiding hand the show needs from its main character.

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