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As you should know already, the hit AMC show The Walking Dead had its second season premiere last week and it sure started with a bang – a herd of walkers, a missing Sophia and it ended with Carl being shot. Way to keep us all wired since the very start!
The second episode had a much slower pace than the first, but it still managed to pack enough action into it to keep us happy for another week.
Let’s see what happened, in short:
Sophia is still missing and while everyone is becoming despondent the least likely character to offer a pep talk – Daryl Dixon(Norman Reedus) – manages to make them focus with one of the best lines of the episode – We’re going to locate that little girl. And she’s going to be just fine. Am I the only zen one around here? Well, Daryl, Zen is not a word I would’ve associated with you, but hey, as long as you keep that rat pack moving forward I am behind you 100%. Perhaps you could Feng Shui Dale’s RV?
Back to more serious business – Carl was shot and despite Rick’s desperate attempts to help him, there simply aren’t resources at the farm where he managed to bring his son. Of course, they do have a doctor – who turns out to be a vet – who leeches more blood from Rick(Andrew Lincoln) than his body should be able to produce in such a short amount of time. The farm looks quite idilic in the otherwise bleak landscape of a walker populated world. I am still not sure what to think about the residents, but it was nice seeing Lauren Cohan again as Maggie Green. You might remember her from Supernatural where she played the villainous Bela. Only time will tell how things will turn up. Considering the type of show The Walking Dead is, things will most likely not be pretty.
Moving along – Lori reunites with her family, with Maggie’s help, while T-Dog is going crazy on the highway due to an infection. He does raise a few valid points regarding his life (actor Irone Singleton has even asked this thorny question on his facebook page – is there a “brotha rule”). T-Dog is genre savvy enough to know that the black guy dies first. I hope he doesn’t, Daryl and Merle (Michael Rooker) still need to kick his ass and he is quite funny when he isn’t falling in the dark pits of depression as it happened in this episode. I suppose having an infected arm while hanging around a cemetery, because that highway is nothing other than that, can bring your spirits down.
Jeffrey DeMunn seemed to be a little of his game as Dale, or perhaps I missed the point entirely and he was simply wearing an utterly confused look upon his face, bewildered by the reactions both T-Dog and Andrea have had recently.
And we’re back to Daryl who manages to find a way to(yet again) save T-Dog with his seemingly never-ending supply of antibiotics. If only someone had thought about asking him earlier…You know, before Shane went up to a high-school filled with walkers to find medical supplies to save Carl. His explanation for the antibiotics – Merle got the clap on occasion. The drugs however are left unexplained, I guess that’s for episode 4, which is supposed to focus on Daryl Dixon and his past.
As the episode progresses the group of survivors just doesn’t seem to catch a break. Sophia is missing, Carol is useless at formulating
any kind of a decent plan, Andrea is upset and Dale is confused, T-Dog might or might not die, Shane is trapped among walkers with seemingly no chance of escaping and Daryl is… Zen. Well, at least he’s at peace.
There are less walkers in this episode – one to be precise – and Daryl is responsible for putting him down (in a rather bamf way), but the drama that surrounds their everyday life is so compelling that even if the walkers were completely removed from the equation, the show would still be amazing. I have read a few complaints about the show being “boring” because the gore didn’t abound in this episode. If you’re in it only for the gore, you probably won’t be disappointed, but you’ll still have to contend with following the story as well.
The good about the episode: Daryl Dixon getting more lines and them being great lines, T-Dog and his situation analysis, Shane doing the right thing by his best friend (however suicidal that might have been) and Chandler Riggs who even unconscious for most of the episode managed to show more acting chops than most grown actors fail to muster.
The bad: after finally getting something to say last week, Carol is back into the whiny mode I’ve come to hate, Glenn had basically nothing to do other than point the obvious, Andrea is still…Andrea and too little about the farm.
The good thing about the bad parts is that they’ll probably be fixed in the next episode.
Here’s a sneak peak at the third episode and we get to learn more about Daryl in the process.(If you haven’t guessed he’s my favourite character yet, you’re playing the game wrong.)
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