Check out the FULL RECAP below! You get an avalanche of action and death and then everyone has to sort of sit with it for an episode or two. But we’re only talking kissing here (as far as we know, the cameras didn’t imply anything else). A total lack of urgency permeated “Now”, even with thousands of zombies at the gate, even with half of Rick’s crew missing.
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– A couple of weeks back, I theorized that Rick’s failed rock quarry plan might drive a wedge between him and the Alexandria residents.
The last time we saw Glenn, Nicholas had just shot himself, sending both men plummeting to their apparent doom underneath the crushing weight of a zombie herd. They WILL move the hoard!
And then they embrace.
I can’t even go on social media right now. On one hand, we’ve had very negative [responses]. That’s fine for a one off story, and the show hasn’t been shy about thinning the Alexandrian herd to make a point.
Poor Rick finally made it back home at the top of Sunday’s new Dead following the mayhem the Wolves caused, and the first thing he had to do was try and make everyone feel better about the disastrous things that’ve occurred. If only she weren’t pregnant. When Jessie points out that they can’t exactly leave, he tells her they will just have to wait.
Unfortunately the people of Alexandria seem to have given up on life as they know it because their first target is the pantry. This episode, we had Spencer and Deanna.
Her son, Spencer, wasn’t so sure about her contributions. And he goes “I think”.
Aaron (to Maggie): “When he gets back, it’s worth mentioning that Aaron/Erin works well for a boy or a girl, depending on the spelling”. And in one of the cheapest emotional beats ever concocted by the series, a woman writes the name “Glenn” on the wall. Whose name is at the very bottom in a fresh coat of black paint?
Deanna Finds Herself Again… “We have to see it, we have to fight it. If we don’t fight, we die”. It would be out of character entirely for Maggie not to do everything that she could, and not being a mother myself but thinking about that, it’s about coming to terms with all those different boundaries. Its just gonna get worse for her from now on. For Deanna, it’s facing down a wayward zombie in the street and chopping it to hamburger with a broken bottle, which seems to ignite something ferocious inside her. “I want to live”, she tells Rick. Walkers come to the grate which leads to the outside. So much for Deanna snapping out of her post-Reg funk. Ron, who was Enid’s boyfriend until Carl and his Bieber-hair showed up, refuses. He tried to reason with him and tell him that they should go find their mutual female friend. That wrist-slapping “fight” with Ron was pretty pathetic. Is this another sign that Jessie and Rick will bring their families together? “I want this place to stay standing”. Um, is he lying?
Denise smooches on Tara. Of course she found a solution to her problem and saved the red shirt by draining his wound. Tara’s interest in Denise’s medical skills goes more than skin deep. The new town’s doctor, Denise, is dealing with her crippling anxiety within the walls of the infirmary while trying to save a patient and ignore the threats outside. “Being afraid sucks”, Denise says, repeating Tara’s words from before back to her. And the wave of hope continues to spread.
Jessie: “This is what life looks like now”.
The ongoing “suspense” of whether Glenn is alive or dead will likely endure for another two or three episodes, long enough to carry us through to the midseason finale-but it’s getting harder and harder not to feel insulted by the mini-hype cycle the show seems to want to create. That is, if it isn’t too late already… which many people believe it is. They attempt to steal more supplies from the pantry until Spencer (Austin Nichols) gives a passionate speech.
Aaron: The sewer walkers were my favorite this week. Maggie dropped the big pregnancy reveal this week. He’s the leader they need, she says, disappointed.
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I know. It was so silly. And then Steven and I got the call from Scott as we were reading it, so it was kind of amusing ’cause I read it and then said to Steven, “Is this…?” I can’t. I don’t get to know what happened. Will we get to see Maggie breaking into a nearby maternity shop to find a few snazzy new clothes for her upcoming months? That breakdown let her unleash a lot of those pent-up emotions and re-affirm her commitment to the depleted Alexandrians, although I wonder how long she’s going to hold on to her sanity. We need more Glenn answers, and less monologues. Even after his mom bakes him a fresh batch of cookies and asks him to come down the stairs just halfway to get one, he won’t budge.
