It's a TV show. It's a TV show in which people shoot and stab other people and people's bodies get ripped apart and somebody dies every week. No one's actually cheering the death of a child. They're cheering the death of a character.

Glenn is apparently bestowed with the same Plot Armor that Rick is, so it looks like we won't have to worry about that ever.

I probably would have decapitated him.

Why would she stab him through the back? Why didn't she decapitate that kid, or at least chop his arm off?

He is seriously the worst possible leader. How many people have died directly because of him, and indirectly like stupid situations in which he runs outside into thousands of walkers in a fit of insanity and does not die, but forces everyone else to come defend him and possibly die.

This is common news, but Viola Davis shows pain and anguish SO well. (I mean—yeah, this is where those Doubt/The Help Oscar nods came from). I mean—in general, this is the job of acting, but especially in the beginning of the episode, when she got home from the hospital and was in serious pain both physically and…

Also, yeah—the apple doesn't fall far from the tree with that kind of talk. “Your son is a whore” by Kevin's mom was pretty telling (and can be filed under “words I never thought I’d hear on network television in my lifetime.”)

Perhaps the most awkward: It DID seem strange that Leslie was SO gung ho about supporting Eric before all the details came out. Even going so far as to throw a pep rally for a kid who might actually be a rapist. I’m happy he can hold on to something that feels like support, as fake as it may be, but we don’t know what…

This episode really seemed like a scathing condemnation of absent/neglectful parenting. Parents who only show up at most when something goes wrong without realizing that all the parenting is supposed to happen before you get there. Eric’s brother telling his dad “why do you care now? They’ve been here all week” with…

I'm just confused as to how could the team possibly think that doing something to Taylor would result in any sort of positive outcome? “Let’s beat up this kid and everything will go back to normal.” Especially when your school is currently under a microscope and several of your fellow teammates/students are already…

Welp. That would have been a terrible gay athlete story to print :/

Welp. That would have been a terrible gay athlete story to print :/

This is true; it's primarily with the adults, who by and large seem SO one-sided and stuck in their ways. They seem to exist to get across a point (the adults in the "race war" school meeting, the various homophobic characters we come across) without much shading applied. The kids seem to be dealing with the…

Yeah I sense a massive breakdown at some point in the next few episodes. That woman has kept her shit far too together to not have it all come unraveling in a spectacular way.

I think homophobia is typically steeped in misogyny—the two often go hand in hand—but it doesn't make it any easier to see spelled out so clearly.

I don't think they really have to explain it. Perhaps his girlfriend may come back into the picture, but as of right now, I feel like he's said (in not so many words) that he's been attracted to boys and girls. That's all we need, IMO.

There is definitely a lot of truth there, but my frustration with it is that everything does seem to be painted so black and white. There seems to be very few shadings of nuance. In this show (especially with the secondary or tertiary characters), you're either very homophobic or you're not. You're either with your…

Both queer teens in the show trying to commit suicide in one season? That seems like a lot :(

I mostly just hated her, haha. I mean—a lot of us are going through really tough times/don't have things easy, but we don't turn into monsters/leave our kids when they need us most. Or casually sort of wish them dead. That's unforgivable, to me.

Welp. That would have been a terrible gay athlete story to print :/