Not sure what changed, but suddenly the show feels a lot tighter all of a sudden. The girl in the woods plot in this episode was so harrowing in a way that I haven't felt before. I was legitimately shook by how it resolved, and I never feel that way watching a TV show. The slow moving monsters never felt truly scary before, but they seem to be evolving (along with the prisoners' relationship with them) and the implications of that raise the stakes and pick up the momentum. I was really unsure about the introduction of a busload of people at the end of the last season, however it has completely thrown the community into disarray, which is a good thing. My impression of the first season was really lukewarm since I didn't buy into the premise that people would discover what is essentially a magic world then decide to give up and just live a boring life in this town. Not anymore.