Sure, but there is still growth in the communities It's two steps forward, one step back, sure. But they are still growing, and building towards a better civilization, which disproves Zack's constant complaint that the show will never change, that it will always be hopeless and miserable and never going anywhere.

But they're still there, that was my point. Just because they have setbacks and/or major conflicts with other groups or zombies does not mean the story is hitting an almost total reset like it did after the farm and the prison. Alexandria and the surrounding communities are still rebuilding civilization, even if for…

Welcome to a Zack Handlen review! He's so much smarter than you, you know, because he can see (unlike us plebs) how the underlying premise of whatever show he's watching is deeply, inherently flawed and makes it uncertain that the show will ever truly be great. Go read his Walking Dead reviews. He literally vomits the…

That's why I laugh whenever Handlen bitches that the show will never change, that they'll always find a safe-haven, and then it will be destroyed. Rinse and repeat. He could not be more wrong. The first five seasons of this show covered roughly 80 issues of the comic I think. The comic is currently on Issue 160, and…

It's worse than that even. I can understand that attitude to a certain extent, but Handlen has essentially been saying the same thing for three seasons. He says that the show at it's core is so hopeless and miserable that it's hard to care about the characters at all. Every. Fucking. Week. I just don't understand how…

I like a lot of the reviews on this site for their insightful commentary on whatever show is being reviewed, but I can not stand Zack Handlen's reviews of anything. I come to this review for the comment section now, and that's about it. Sure people in the comments bitch about the show, but at least most of them don't…

This is what happens when you have a show made for college-age hipster millennials about poor, quirky, 30-something millennials but everybody on the creative and performance teams are actually ultra-rich older millennials and gen x-ers (Depending on your definition Max, Zooey, and Liz Meriwether are either millennials…

I actually don't think Glenn will ever die. The show is generally lighter than the books, and I don't know that a single character on the show has gotten exactly the death they had in the comic. I'm betting that Abraham is the one getting the bat.

Abraham is still my bet. He's well liked enough, yet still disposable.

Oh I don't doubt it, I was really just saying that I doubt AMC really cares about the uproar. I just don't think Eric is a particualrly important character.

Wrong episode to make that comment, considering the show literally just had two women kissing this episode.

That's more of a problem with editing and act break placement. My point was that TWD actually has a standard amount of commercials for an hour long drama.

I definitely feel that Gimple is underappreciated given what he's done for the overall quality of the show.

Wait until they introduce the battle tiger.

That pig scene still makes me extremely uncomfortable and sad.

Also at one point Eastman wears a shirt with a turtle on it, and then one with pizza. So I think the reference is fairly obvious. This is one reason I actually love Scott Gimple as showrunner. He seems like a genuine nerd.

Actually, I think Andrew Lincoln has said that he went on an "apocalypse diet" and exercise routine sometime between season 2 and 3, and it shows. I was watching the pilot the other day, and he has gotten much smaller and leaner since the show began. Also, Rick has inexplicably lost all of his chest hair.

Sometimes I agree that it feels like AMC has a lot of commercials (although that may be because TWD is the only show I watch live), but the running times of all the episodes are completely standard for an hour long drama. They're are right around 43-44 minutes, and this episode was 65 minutes, which means they added…

Upvoted for sneaky pun usage.

Just wanted to point out that the Illusionist is not Nolan. That's The Prestige