By Amber Burg– Zombies with faces half missing, limbs crawling on the ground unattached to bodies, and bloody, gorey open wounds. It’s that time of year. No it’s not Halloween yet; it’s the start of a new season of The Walking Dead.
The Walking Dead, the only show where you can go from screaming ‘Don’t kill the baby’ to ‘ Stab that jerk’ to ‘ Don’t you dare eat him,’ started its fifth season October 12th. The executive producers Scott Gimple, Greg Nicotero, Gale Anne Hurd, and Robert Kirkman take the season premier to a whole new level with zombie gore, conflicting moments, and character development.
The show ended last season with Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), Carl Grimes (Chandler Riggs), Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus), and Michonne (Danai gurira) making it to Terminus. They hoped to seek safety in the sanctuary but ended up trapped and placed in captivity with members of their group that got separated from them at the prison.
Season 5 picked right back up where it left off. The group, still trapped in a train car, prepares for revenge on their cannibalistic captors.
This episode was extremely intense. You see a different side to a lot of the characters. Rick, the leader who tries to kill only for the right reasons, takes leadership and revenge to a level you’ve never seen him at before. Tyreese (Chad Coleman) is forced to make the ultimate decision that had viewers scream at the TV screen: commit suicide by zombies to save baby Judith or live and watch the baby be killed. Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride) makes a comeback and is a pure badass. Her performance and role in this episode was amazing. Even if you hated her from her previous actions, you will love her by the end of this episode.
The level of gore in this season is greater than it was in past seasons. They have more close ups on zombies eating gruesome bloody heads, necks exposed with blood rocketing out with every pulse of the heart, and blood spewing out of almost any body part. One of their best scenes that also called for screaming at the TV was when captives line up over a silver metal trough and get beat up with a baseball bat and have their throats slit. It was also ironic because every other scene is a bloody mess but here they made sure to keep it clean by slitting throats over the trough to catch the blood squirting out.
Overall this is one of the better episodes, but it is a little predictable in some spots because you know that they can’t all die. I highly recommend watching it if you missed out. The next episode of The Walking Dead plays Sunday night on AMC at 8 PM and again at 10 PM.
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