![]() ![]() Portraying stress and grief is difficult for any actor to do convincingly, even more so when the entire world they inhabit is all stress and grief for anyone that doesn’t have a powerful hankering for human flesh. There are way too many things this show is doing right to pick a place to begin, but if I had to I have to unquestionably echo all of the praise the actors on this show are getting. I’m not sure where to start with the actual review portion of this review. The episode ends with Rick and crew back on the roof with some very familiar imagery to fans of the book (that I won’t spoil since it’s just that great) and no Merle to be found. ![]() We then see the extreme domestic abuse taking place between Carol and her husband boil to the surface as well as Shane’s reaction to it. It’s at this point that we learn that it was Shane himself that convinced Lori that Rick was dead. Following this, Lori makes her feelings very clear to Shane that whatever happened between she and him before Rick arrived was over and that he was to keep away from her family. First we have a scene lifted directly from the comics of Amy, Andrea, Carol and an as yet unnamed new-to-the-showbie washing the group’s laundry by hand and commenting on the backwards ass gender roles in play following the outbreak. Following that are three rapid fire scenes that will ensure this show season after season to come. Rick, Daryl, Glen and T-Dog then leave for Atlanta, much to chagrin of Shane and Lori. At this point we’re introduced to the “new-to-the-show” main character, Dixon’s pissed as hell off brother Daryl and witness the first walker sighting anywhere close to the camp (which was foreshadowing if I ever did see it, of course.) After an extremely awkward “thought you were dead” sex scene between Rick and Lori, Rick reveals the next day that he plans to go back to Atlanta not only for Dixon, but for his bag of guns and ammunition as well. We’re then slowly introduced to life in camp including fleshed out introductions for Dale, Amy, Caroll and Sophia as well as some other “new-to-the-show” characters. The scene itself was handled with requisite emotion required of the father/son reunion, but the tension going though Shane and Lori’s minds as the reality of their tryst in the wake of Rick’s survival occurs to them. Once they arrive we finally get the reunion between Rick, Carl and Lori that long time fans knew was coming before the series began and new fans knew since the first episode. We catch a brief glimpse into his dehydrated hysteria with walkers bearing down on top of him before cutting back to the other survivors as they make their way back to camp. This episode starts off where episode 2 left off, with “new-to-the-show” character Merle Dixon still hand-cuffed to the abandoned department store vacated by the survivors last episode. Having the future of the show secure only makes watching Episode #3 that much more of a pleasure. Sure, we know Season #2 was green lit after last episode (and possibly Seasons 3 through 10 as well), so the situation is no longer as dire as we used to think. ![]() I literally just found out (due to a mixture of my own low attention span when it comes to television and blind hope) that this first season of the best comic book adaptation across any medium was only six episodes long, which adds a ton of weight to reviewing this particular episode as its end marks the halfway point of the season. ![]()
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