User Reviews

This episode showed the horror of the government failing and the undead rising. Probably the most stunning scene was when travis is driving the Salazar family to the hospital only to find out that it (OF COURSE) is overrun. As once you die you turn. Within minutes, hours. It dosent matter. A newly confirmed deceased patient would lay there. Documents would be made; corpses would be covered. And after a while that newly dead individual would awaken into a frenzy of attacks and bites.... the amount of horrors that can be imagined from all of this is surreal and I hope the newly confirmed walking dead anthology series "tales of the walking dead" covers this even though the original series (sort of) covered this. It was not nearly as insane as it could've been. Anyway another great part is seeing the lights of LA shut off. On one hand I find it terrifying but on another it almost seems like a cop out. Like there shouldve been more but to be honest I'm glad they showed us atleast some stuff. And the whole clarke family zombie(s) incident were pretty damn cool. And Daniel coming in and being the man to take it out was awesome. 8.5/10

This was the best episode so far, the episode had action and some nice creepy moments.

For Example: the deaths of Peter Dawson and Susan and off course ''The Dog''

After a slow start to the season I thought this episode was really good and picked up the pace nicely. It's forever going to be hugely annoying that some characters do stupid things but they're still doing them 5 seasons in on TWD, so I'm not holding my breath that it won't keep happening here.

Mr Salazar taking down the dog-eating neighbour was the highlight of the episode, he's already a badass and I can see him wanting to position himself as Group Leader before the season is out, and it's interesting that Madison is the more hardened of the two, as Travis seems convinced this is a temporary situation before a cure is found and is intent on remaining as passive and positive as possible until fate undoubtedly forces his hand.

Alicia remains the most "Andrea" like character, forgetting the shotgun shells then returning for them and almost getting bitten by Zombie Susan in the garden was incredibly reckless and stupid. If she keeps this kind of behaviour going she needs to be zombie nosh soon. Walking around looking sultry in short shorts isn't quite enough reason to keep her alive in the show.

There's still a lot of flaws. Reactions need to be more realistic for one thing. Travis and his family walk in on their neighbour EATING THEIR DOG and nobody shouts, screams or even runs, they just kind of stare at him for a while before trying to talk to him in a concerned manner. PLEASE! Travis is now stuck under the same roof as his ex-wife and current squeeze, and I'm really hoping this doesn't turn into some soap opera of two women bitching at each other. Characters are still not communicating information to or with each other, which under these circumstances is completely unbelievable.

Gripes aside, this episode was a step-up in quality and there was a lot of tension involved and some decent gore and scares. If it stays around this level I'll be happy.

1x3 Rating: 8.0/10

Storyline: Travis, Liza and Chris stay in Salazar's barber shop with his family waiting for the right moment to run to the truck. When the looters try to break in the shop, they flee with Daniel Salazer, his wife Griselda and their daughter Ofelia. However a scaffolding collapses on the leg of Griselda. They try to take her to a hospital, but the place is chaotic with infected people under siege of the police. They decide to bring the Salazar family to Madison's house. Meanwhile Madison, Alicia and Nick plays Monopoly waiting for Travis. Soon they see their neighbor Peter Dawson wandering in the direction of their house and Nick decides to go to the next door house to take the shotgun that belongs to their neighbors Patrick and Susan Tran. They see Peter entering in their house and killing the dog that Nick had brought home. Then they see Travis arriving in his truck and they run to warn him. Will they arrive in time?

The first two episodes were pretty good, and I agree with their overall 8+ rating. But the 3rd episode disappointed me. The stupidity of some of the stars amazes me. Sure, there would be initial disbelief by people, but after seeing several of the "walkers", you'd think that Travis would be more willing to obtain and train the family in the use of weapons. The only one with any sense seems to be Daniel Salazar. And maybe Nick and Chris. The rest of the Clark family are in denial, which leads to stupid actions and decisions. Waiting overnight before bugging out? Everyone will be looking to flee the cities, and the longer you wait, the more clogged the roads will be. Maybe I've watched too many Zombie shows, but much of the cast is ignoring evidence of them right in front of their eyes.

The barber shop scene was insane, people going absolutely nuts, walkers eating police officers etc. So the city has problems with the electricity. The virus started spreading, it's been like 2 days and we see more walkers everywhere. I like how the characters are trying to realize what is really going on. They meet walkers for the first time, they kill a walker for the first time and they also try to understand how this virus spreads and what it does to a person, its really interesting to watch and pretty realistic.

Travis dealing with 2 wives is fun to watch. I like how Travis puts trash in the trash can like someone will come to take it hehe. Travis doesn't like guns? Better get used to it dude. I like how they didn't kill Susan thinking that maybe a cure will be available soon to help her, makes the whole thing even more realistic. Travis thinking that it will all be ok because the army appeared... I wouldnt be so optimistic Travis. This episode was good, nice performances and intense moments. Just as good as episodes 1&2. Can't wait to watch for more post-apocalyptic episodes.

My rating is 7.7/10.

Spoiler alert! I was very disappointed in this episode. The first two were really good, but this last one seemed really implausible. After all, if you are afraid of what is outside, why would you stand in a window shining a flashlight outside to tell them where you are? I wanted to smack those two! Also, if there is something strange happening in the world, wouldn't you want to know what it is? Why did no one think to turn on a TV? I would think you would be glued to the news trying to comprehend what was going on. This is the first time I have been disappointed in anything "Walking Dead" related, and I hope it will be the last time.

This episode had a great start and it continued to be great for most of the runtime but after the first 30 minutes it starts to get a little boring but the ending was really good and it sets up a great story for episode 4 which I hope they execute well. This episode's ending had a shocking twist and was crazy that the military ended up catching them all because they stopped to help their neighbor. Episode 4 I have high expectations for but I will probably get proven wrong considering how this season is going. Patrick really wasn't a bad guy after all and really did care for his wife which makes his death a whole lot more sad. Also I hope Tobias returns because he was great in episode 2 and his absence in this episode was a little upsetting but their wasn't really a place for him this episode anyways.

If I were to describe this episode with one word, I would say pointless.

When I was about to start watching this episode I was at least expecting something from it. When I was finished I was left with nothing but disappointment. It gave me nothing.

First of all, the characters feel so robotic. Even when someone is close to being bitten by a zombie it just feels like they don't have anything to say about it. Just standing there like dumb statues asking the zombie to act normal despite having blood around its mouth from eating a dog. Such a normal reaction. And after it getting its head blown off, everyone is just like "well... I'm used to that".

Not to mention the incredible clichés getting outta hand again. Just like the first episode, I've never cringed more from clichés than I do from this show. Especially the ending, when the Asian zombie gets shot right before biting her husband.

I really hope the show can step it up and become more dark, instead of this wannabe-dark-clichè-filled-teenage-drama.

Hope I made my points clear, this needs more depth and better development. It's very slow, and that's not the good kind of slow like the four first episodes of true detective season 1.

Oh and what in gods name was that green-screen on the car trip? Holy hell that looked terrible.

SPOILER: Third episode in and I'm becoming less and less impressed. I feel like the whole cast is on downers. No one reacts normally to things that would scare the hell out of anyone with half a brain.

They go to the neighbour's house to get a shotgun and leave the door wide open. Really? Their dog gets eaten by a different neighbour and they stand unflinchingly in the window and watch. No emotional response. Even when said neighbour gets shot twice in the face with a shotgun, all we get his an incredulous grimace. The older woman next door is growling and grabbing people through the fence and they just watch her through the window like a bird at the feeder.

These people definitely need to go back to acting school. They're emotionless, disinterested and clueless. Everyone just seems bored, to be honest, and so am I.

Despite being a giant fan of The Walking Dead, I'm continually finding it difficult to enjoy this series. This whole episode was very irritating in how it failed to accomplish anything from start to finish. Ultimately it was continuing on from episode 2 with the story of trying to bring everyone together. Just like the previous one, this was a really slow episode, I think the writers definitely have an issue with pacing. They fully brought in the Salazar family in this episode, who really didn't add anything. They're just another family to add to the already crowded canvas of family drama and upset, which was never a reason I wanted to watch this. Daniel Salazar's role in the show is basically just exposition (e.g. the episode's final words: "It's too late" or "good people are the first to die"), as the writers have no time to deal with the ongoing story of the out-breaking zombie apocalypse due to the focus on family drama, so his role is to occasionally drop a line to make sure the audience has a vague idea of what's going on, without the writers bothering to show us. Right now I have no idea if the Salazar family are going to stay, but I wouldn't care if they suddenly get eaten by a pack of zombies. Although I did enjoy watching Daniel Salazar questioning Travis' leadership, but that was more because of the degree of annoyance Travis possesses rather than me actually liking Daniel Salazar. Aside from Travis still showing no signs of character development or good acting, what really stuck out in this episode was the way he seemed to be holding back both the characters and the show. All of the decisions he made was utterly ridiculous, and I feel the show would be much more cohesive if he were to suddenly fall off a cliff or something.

Just to make the show less interesting Travis happens to be against the use of guns, which at this point was the last thing I wanted to hear. However if you found the lack of gore irritating in the previous episodes, at least I can say there was a fairly satisfying scene of Daniel Salazar taking a shotgun and blowing off a zombies head, which was fully shown and very gory. Asides from this it was another action-less episode, which was also slowed down by the lack of any other such event. When finally the families did reconnect they just stayed in their home longer, and when finally they left (42 minutes into the 48 minute episode), they came back less than three minutes later. It was genuinely ridiculous. And to top it off they barely gave a reason. I get that they wanted to help their neighbour, but once they had done this and answered all of the soldiers' questions why didn't they leave again? It's clear the show runners want them to stick around some more, but they could at least create a valid reason for making us sit through the boredom of watching them sit in their home for an entire episode (and it looks like for the next one too). We literally just watched them play Monopoly and...talk. And listening to the dialogue wasn't fun either, as this episode once again proves that the general dialogue needs a lot of work (especially when they try humour...).

This episode seems like the perfect opportunity for character development, as some really good character moments would make up for any lack of plot. Ultimately that's what happened in the majority of the second half of season 4 of The Walking Dead, where there were many episodes with just two or three characters not really doing much but developing their characters; and that was really entertaining to watch, as the show made use of the situation of the characters, instead of have them compete in a competition of who can be more boring, as we saw here. I have to say it wasn't all boredom though, as there was a great moment when an unaware husband returned to his zombie wife, who was then suddenly shot in front of us. This scene really had me glued to the screen, and was actually quite tense. If there were more scenes like this I would probably be writing a very positive review for this episode, but even by the end, there wasn't much to like here.