"I think Marty and Rust's pathetic middle age lives ring rather true"

Wonder what meds Audrey is on, and what her art looks like. I hope it's improved.

Audrey's on meds now. Or rather, Maggie tells Marty she's stopped taking them.

Good and fair points.

"if she isn't duct taping herself, Rosita"

I get the feeling he's supposed to be. I'm sure they'll handle such a character with the deftness and nuance we've come to expect from the show.

Well said. Even though I'd read a few books of the comic, I really wanted TWD-tv to be more realist. Which they occasionally skirt with, but maybe they get too scared or something and go running back to comic-mode, short shorts and red hair and everything.

I think she said at some point they'd driven for something like three hours. Or had passed that bus three hours back. Just checked - it's three hours after the bus, said to Glenn just after he wakes up and asks.

Twist: Rick Grimes is still in a coma, his mind now playing out a much better fantasy.

And apparently bourbon is the new coffee.

The first season was six episodes, six days.

Marty didn't want to hear it, I guess. And he doesn't know who else he can trust - that any case he might start to build could get taken from him, evidence get 'lost', etc.

I thought that part was pretty good, but that may be in comparison to the terrible attempt at a gear shift at the 'oh I forgot my baby sister is dead' thing that ended the jollity.

I'd imagine, if anything at all, they're little nods to the original stories, but in the first episode, we're told that Rev Tuttle is 'first cousin' of the governor. In 'The Repairer Of Reputations', the first story in 'The King In Yellow', the (quite mad) narrator is convinced his cousin is (or is in line to be) King…

"The cunning and devastating thing is because she seduced Rust, thus breaking up their partnership"

I was wondering about that. In a show where just about everything can seem ominous, the big industrial stuff doesn't half cast the atmospheric shadow.

"After all it’s been, what, a year since the outbreak? More?"

They're going for the Society ending, surely?

Yep. Her father is often touted as possibly involved, and the behaviour of the daughters - the older, particuarly - could be down to cult activity/indoctrination, so it's mooted that she may be involved. Particularly after the interview MIchelle Monaghan, where she said Cohle and Hart had underestimated her, and that…

I'm just paddling about in the shallow end of the 'Maggie is in on it' pool.