TWD’S season premiere broke all sorts of records, and it’s immediate followup placed third highest rated episode AND beat Sunday Night Football’s demo number AGAIN! How is that for follow through?!
My first thought right at the start was that I don’t recall Glenn even having any lines last week, and this week all he gets is mistaking a broom and some boxes for a walker? That’s harsh. Maybe they want to turn him in to an idiot so we won’t mind when they kill him.
The crew find a creepy preacher in the woods who is clearly not all with the apocalypse.
There is some definite weirdness here, and Father Gabriel is clearly hiding something. Rick has no problem telling him right to his face that he knows he is hiding something, and if that something hurts someone in the group, he will kill him. Rick was even more take charge this week. I think weepy unsure Rick is gone. Now we have strong leader Rick who is going to bump heads with Abraham.
The church is a nice place for them to decompress and is sufficiently creepy. At first I thought it was the same church they ran across while looking for Sophia, but apparently is an all new location that they built in six weeks. Makes me wonder if they would spend all that time and energy on a set if we weren’t hanging around for more than just a few episodes.
Carol and Daryll got spend quite a bit of time together this week. She does not want to talk about what happened with Lizzy and her sister, and he does not want to pry. There is more cuteness going on there, but the big thing is they see the car with the cross on the window that took Beth, and are off after it.
I truly hope this isn’t a pointless and dull side story.
Anyone who has read the comics knows the scene where the Terminus folks are eating Bob’s leg is almost straight from the books, only with some characters moved around. I think we may know where this is heading as it would seem we are in the “Fear The Hunters” arc of the book. Episode two seems a bit early for the big reveal, so we will have to see how this pans out.
Finally there was a scene in a flooded basement with some water logged walkers which was fantastic.
These were some of the best walker makeups ever seen on the show period.
There was sloughed off skin and all sorts of nasty ickyness. Especially this one with an exposed vertebrae.
It looks far too decomposed to be a threat, but it is moving and chomping.
Here is the promo for next week’s “Four Walls And A Roof”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=quvmRIkbCTw