That ’s more like it . “ yardbird ” was really four minisodesdetailing the post - prison escape stories of Beth and Daryl , Tyreese and theCarol Corps , Maggie and Sasha and Bob , and finally Glenn , severally . Andthey were all far more piquant than last week ’s last season premiere .
But we ’ll get to that in a s . First , the recap :
We start with Daryl and Beth ; specifically we begin withBeth and Daryl operate for their life , inexorably , as the show played anexcerpt from Beth ’s first diary entry upon moving into the prison . It ’s alittle cheesy , but it contrasts Beth ’s former , almost reluctant gleam of hopeto their current insecurity exceedingly well . Daryl , meanwhile , is get the better of . Now , defeated for Daryl is still a default fight for survival , but Beth has totalk him into even looking for tracks in case someone else escaped . They do findsome runway , but only come across a fresh zombie killing , and Beth breaks down . But the most grievous part of the segment ? When it ’s revealed that the twoare commence their firing by using Beth ’s diary pages . There ’s no mistaking whatthe characters have lost .
Meanwhile , Tyresse is in full babysitter mode , includingboth the Carol Corps miss and — wait for it — Judith . She ’s live ! But holy shit . You do n’t know what tensezombie entertainment is until you watch this segment where one guy is trying toprotect two little girl and a infant from an unknowable amount of zombies . Tyreese is surprisingly parental , but every time Judith holler it’snerve - wracking , because the baby could bring death on their head at anymoment .
Of course , Lizzie , the more psychotic member of the CarolCorps , sees a pretty simple-minded solvent to this job . When Tyreese find out awoman ’s shrieking in the distance and leave the girls together ( see AssortedMusings below for more ) , Judith starts crying and Lizzie just place her handover Judith ’s mouth and nose — she ’s not upset at Judith , and she does n’t evenpay attention to the zombi draw near them ( Mika , meanwhile , is freakingout ) . Lizzie ’s just consume a swell time surround this baby . Tyreese pick up Mikashoot at one of the zombie spirit , but ca n’t get away from the zombies he ’s find , along with some alien , all of whom get eaten . As shortly as he gets a hazard , he start endure back to them , panicked , and finds — Carol .
Carol write them ! It ’s definitely a Carol ex Machina , butshe explicate that she had returned to the prison ( I feign she adjudicate Rickcould go love himself ) just to see it get destroyed , watch Tyreese and the girlsrun off , essay to chase them but lost them for a bit , and detect them in justthe gouge of sentence , so I ’ll allow it . Tyreese , who still does n’t experience that Carolset his gal pal on fire , is overjoyed to see her . One of the conk out strangersmanages to tell this semi - well-chosen family about a community that ’s safe , they justhave to follow the train tracks . Soon enough , they see a sign for a placecalled — not at all ominously — Terminus .
Okay , Maggie , Sasha and Bob time . Maggie is overwrought aboutGlenn , Sasha is pragmatic , and Bob seemingly accept that he could die atliterally any bit and makes some peace with that . Sasha wants to set upcamp , but Maggie just runs off to find the school bus she go forth Glenn in , forcing Sasha and Bob to follow her as oppose to splitting up . Maggie findsthe jalopy quickly enough , bar in the middle of a route … and full of zombies . Maggie ’s ready to jump on in , but Sasha and Bob channelise out that ’s stupid . Maggieknows this , but has to see if Glenn is one of them anyways , so Bob convincesher to let them launch the back door and have the zombies out one at a clock time .
This is plainly still a dumb architectural plan , and finally thezombies overtake Sasha and Bob and flood out all at once , but they contend todispatch them without too much fuss . Which is when Maggie jumps on the double-decker tosee if Glenn — or what ’s left of him — is isnide . for sure enough , there ’s onezombie trap under another physical structure ; Maggie pulls it off , and the zombie leaps ather , but we do n’t see its look , but he kind of has Glenn ’s tomentum and is wearingthe same dark sort of shirt as Glenn last had on , and Maggie lead off ballingimmediately after she knifes the zombie in the face , but then she startslaughing . Cut to commercial message . And the first shot back is Glenn stir up up at theprison .
Let me differentiate you how good this was . I was genuinely worriedhere that Glenn was dead . I mean it was entirely plausible that Walking Dead would defeat Glennoff - concealment , turn him into a Walker , and drive Maggie to stab him in the head asan almost unvoluntary reaction to him hurtle at her . That sounded just brutaland tremendous enough to be right up WalkingDead ’s alley . Now , I knew the show would n’t kill Glenn without intelligibly testify he was dead , and once it reduce tocommercial without revealing the face of the zombie , I knew Glenn was safe . Butfor that madly long take of Maggie where she ’s crying after the stabbing , Iexpected to the tv camera to cut to zombie - Glenn with a knife in his principal at anysecond . Hell , even when she was express joy I thought there was a chance Maggiewas just express joy hysterically at the improbable wretchedness of what she’djust done .
Anyways , Glenn . If you ’ll recall , he was hardly recoveredfrom being deathly ominous when Maggie got him on the jalopy and ran off to find Beth . Well , clearly Glenn followed and managed to get himself to a good property beforepassing out , although there are dozen of zombies who screw where he is and wanta bite . He returned to the prison where they all lived , first attend forMaggie , and then looking for supplies so he can put out to find Maggie . In whatis perhaps the smartest decision made by anyone on The Walking Dead , Glenn sire out his bacchanal gear and puts it on .
On his way out , he sleuth The Governor ’s New Wife ’s Sister — who is describe Tara , as I have finally looked ut up since she ’s clearly stickingaround for a while — in a little fenced enclosure , surrounded by zombi . Glenntries to get her to get out , but she feels responsible for following the Governorand induce all this lot and dying . She even mentions “ Brian ” killing the oldman , and that ’s how Glenn finds out Herschel is dead . But Glenn wo n’t abandonTara , mostly because he needs her if he wants any luck of finding Maggie . Sohe rig a Molotov cocktail to distract the automaton , and run off with Tara . They get to the route , where Glenn defend off several before collapsing , forcingTara to wake up out of her stupor and vex some heads in . Which is what she’sdoing when a hand truck approach … and a human name Abraham steps out . Comic readerswill recognise him well .
“ Inmates ” was a much estimable sequence than “ After ” for avariety of cause : 1 ) There were four taradiddle rather of two . None of themneeded to be pad out like Carl and Michonne ’s were , and I retrieve morehappened in these anyways . 2 ) The zombie spirit scares were actually kind of tense . Weknew there was no way Carl was going to die alone during his stunned snit , sothose zombie attack were wasting time . But a few of this episode ’s actionscenes were tense for a few unlike intellect — like I had no fucking clue howthe Carol Corps were going to survive an onslaught while they were on their own . And when Maggie was play Die Hardon the school bus I was n’t worried she was run short to die , but I was worriedabout what she was going to come up . So well done there . 3 ) Almost no one didanything stupid . Carl did several dazed things last week , and honestly , thesecharacters have enough problems without their lack of common sentiency get inthe way . But in “ Inmates , ” Maggie entering the school jitney was a dumb decisiveness , but one she emotionally require to make . Tyreese leave the girls alone wasn’tgreat , but it was a cipher endangerment — no present terror in addition to thechance of save a fellow subsister . He did n’t make the call easily .
And now there ’s this exciting new finish , Terminus , foreveryone to get to , implying how everyone will meet back up . There are new characterswho are in all likelihood go to stick around for awhile and shake affair up . Carol ’s back and hanging with Tyreese , and fight is a - brewing ! Lizzie ’s last name is Borden , plain ! And no oneneedlessly risked his or her lifetime for eat a million hammering of cannedpudding ! full stuff all around !
Assorted reflection :
The missy who plays Beth is not the world ’s best on - screencrier .
Lizzie also apparently stabs a mixed bag of bunny rabbit rabbits todeath while at inner circle one night — clearly not for exhaust , just for the killing . This does indicate that she ’s the one who killed the animals at the prison house andthen allow for them by the fencing , as the most prevalent buff theories pop the question . I hadresisted this idea , because I assumed the perpetrator was trying to tempt zombiesto the prison fence . But tonight it dawn on me that Lizzie was n’t doing that , she was just trying to obliterate the evidence of her serial critter cause of death calling , and thought the zombies would take care of it .
That bunny stuff was set up really well , by the elbow room . Daryland Beth bye by a log that the bunnies are sit down cosily in . Then there ’s abrief shot of the same log , with the bunny rabbit still inside , which Lizzie issitting next to . Lizzie discover something in the log area . Lizzie have out herknife and starts make bored , dispassionate dig motion at this sphere , whileno one is the wiser . It ’s shivery .
I call them bunnies and not rabbit because they werebunnies , goddammit . They were all so equable and adorable they might as wellhave been tire out minuscule bow ties .
Seriously , I do n’t recall Tyreese leave the girls is asinsane as it sounds ; there are no apparent walkers in the vicinity , but thereobviously are by the survivor . Tyreese places them back - to - back and build up them , and tell them if any walkers come to range toward him . Most significantly , thescream could be a prison subsister or just someone to help him protect two kidsand a babe , which is worth the ostensibly minor chance the girls would be indanger ( you know , if he think the world was regularise by logic rather ofsadistic screenwriter ) . Again , a cipher risk .
Glenn ’s pretty badass in the episode . But more importantly , there’ssome fine dissemble from Steven Yuen . The range of emotions he goes through in theprison , from comprehension to loss to determination is great . And the fashion hereacts when he inquire Tara if the old piece was named Herschel — he sound like alittle boy , which is powerful because Herschel was patently such a fatherfigure to him .
SPOILER ABOUT ABRAHAM : I ’m used to seeing all militarypersonnel in zombi films be evil murderer - rapists , so I presume that whenAbraham showed up in camo we were cope with the next big badness . But about 30seconds of Googling uncover that ’s not the compositor’s case , which is a squeamish subversion ofthe trope . Unless the show is fucking with us , which is always a possibility .
BABY JUDITH DEATH scout : The other matter that stressed meout about this episode is because I honestly guess the show might have Lizziekill Judith the right way there , and let me tell you why : The comic is emphatically awfulenough to vote down a infant . The show has not done anything to make me think that itwouldn’t kill a child , other than not killing the baby … yet . I really thoughtthe baby was all in when we saw the car seat full of blood , so I still kind ofthink that Judith could go at any time . Baby Judith is a vast tale anchorthat drags down the characters and the narrative while they must get by with her , which is partially why she ’s gone in the comic — this can not be lose on the telly writers . About the only affair Baby Judith has going in her party favour is that kill a babywould be about the most horrifying thing a TV drama could depict , and AMC mightnot want to potentially alienate a large component part of TWD ’s already gravid audience . But the show already killed a 10 - year - oldgirl identify Sophia , so forgive me if I do n’t consider Judith is out of the woodsyet .
LOOK AT THE STARE LIZZIE IS GIVING BABY JUDITH IN THE PICTURE ABOVE AAAAAAAAA
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