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Sometimes when The Walking Dead works best it is when it lets us watch the human emotion boil to the top. Take for instance, the latest episode. The Walking Dead returned tonight with a new episode simply entitled ‘Nebraska’ where emotions were high.
Last we left our heroes, Shane (Jon Bernthal) had gone nutso and led the (minor) mutiny to open the barn doors and kill the zombies Herschel (Scott Wilson) had kept inside. Herschel had lost his wife (and someone else, I believe) to the zombie outbreak. Believing he could genuinely cure them or that one day a cure would be found, he rounded them up in the barn. Cut to Season 2’s opening when Herschel welcomes Rick (Andrew Lincoln), who, like us watching at home, know hope is lost for a real cure is close as we know as per the season one finale in the CDC, that this is not true.
And that’s really the basics of the episode, is just the aftermath of what happened when, upon Shane releasing the barn door and the zombies come out, being killed by Rick’s group, only do they stop firing when Sophie, the little girl they’ve been looking for all season long, slumps out, prompting Rick, who hadn’t been firing in the walker-slaughter, to finally raise his gun and do the thing that no one else can do, which is to kill her.
I would say ‘Nebraska’ was a master-stroke for the series, which did something I’ve not felt while television in a while, which was, in a show that has a lot of other stuff going on (i.e. Zombie Apocalypse) that the tension isn’t high because of the zombies, but instead because of the drama. L0ST in it’s early first three seasons was this way, before becoming almost 100% consumed by it’s own mythology until the final season, and it was refreshing to feel tense when by all accounts, nothing was really happening.
This is also fantastic considering up until the fall-finale of The Walking Dead, I was losing faith in the series for sticking around at Herschel’s farm for too long. And with Frank Darabont now out of the picture on the hit AMC Series, it was a definite loss for the series, at least, at the time it felt that way. While I still believe that Darabont would have led the show in amazing and interesting places, with an episode like ‘Nebraska’ it eases me a bit that the show just might be able to continue on without him successfully.
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