As was the baby in the microwave. And the jukebox opening? If you'd showed that to me and told me it was an outtake from the music video for George Michael's "Freedom '92," I'd have believed you.

At least you didn't take the review personally or anything.

They're not back in the saddle, though, is the thing. They walked to the stockyard this week, talked about which horse would be best for the job, but they're not galloping down the warpath quite yet. Watched as 1/8th of an outstanding 8-hour movie, as the rest of the tv-watching world will be doing in a few months…

The saddest way this thing could end is if Rust and Marty infiltrate the cabal of pagans or whatever, kill some dudes a la the LaDoux raid, and then once they're back to civilization Marty turns and pins the 2012 murder of the girl on Rust. So while it turns out that Marty is part of the secret cabal, it's Rust who…

this is the most insightful thing I've yet read about this episode.

Maybe the saving grace of prison attack 2.0 will be tank boy pulling a long con on the Gov and fucking him over once the prison has been overtaken?

For real. A Governor redemption arc where he has to go back to the prison with these new people and reintegrate himself would have been so, so, so much more interesting than "He's back, and this time he's… pretty much the same as last time."

zombiestock = genius (the term 'zombiestock' is genius, I mean, not the pointless and confusing inclusion of it in the episode)

For a show whose story is often dictated by budgetary concerns, I think the cgi expenses involved in removing a hand week after week make that a no go, if for no other reason. but I bet it would be a pain in the ass for the actor playing 'you know who' too.

Agreed! The Gov was interesting as fuck last week. This week he became way less so the instant he brought that golf club down on Martinez's head. If he didn't want to be leader so badly he should have just kept the dude who was already the leader as the fuckin leader!

I think it was just a money shot for the people whose interest in the show is primarily seeing creative zombie fx (according to a recent Rolling Stone article, these people exist). But yeah, when you think about it, it must have been pretty expensive.

Daryl (v/o): You did WHAT?
Carl: I borrowed your nail clipper, what's the big deal?
Daryl: Nothing. I'm just a little edgy since your dad told me he exiled Carol.

#Lupin Addams's comment plus this is the best laugh I've had all day.

When I read the sentence "(Now we're back to the Greeks again.)" I said, "Did Todd VanDerWeffe write this?"

Nah dude.  The show's not turning him into a victim or making excuses for his past behavior, and neither is Don himself.  He's making a choice to rip off a lifetime of bandaids so the festering wounds they cover can finally turn into scars.

I find myself wishing his reviews focused a little more on what the show says about, like, America, man.  But I thought the Freud stuff in this one was a good, if slightly overbaked, crack at taking things a little deeper than "I approve of what this character did/ I don't approve of what this character did/ Here are…

Pete sees all things only through the lens of his immediate emotional state, which usually means he casts himself as either the victim or the only cool head in the room.  Makes his politics pretty hard to pin down.

Well, something's got to get her to Woodstock next season without us all bitching about how forced it is, right?

The camera showed Sylvia's kitchen floor because that's where the letter Sally was looking for would have been.

That's a great idea, about Bob and Joan.