The biggest show on Television returned a couple weeks ago setting TV history once again. That’s right, The Walking Dead has come back bigger than ever in more than one way. Not only did it reach 20 million plus views, but it set a record of having the biggest zombie opening ever with TV or movies combined. The first episode opens showing us a quarry packed full of walkers. Rick, Daryl, Michonne, Morgan, Glenn, Sasha, Abraham, and some other characters from Alexandria are all gathered around this quarry. Rick has no doubt that this will not hold the walkers back from attacking Alexandria, they are all held back with just semi-trucks. This episode took a different turn in the show’s history giving us a handful of flashbacks. We saw what had happened after Rick shot Jessie’s husband Pete at the end of season 5 and how rocky things became for the group.
There was also a high emotional turn in the first episode for Jessie’s son, Ron. From the look of Ron’s character, he seems to be playing for the wrong team wanting nothing on Rick besides revenge for killing his father. As Rick and the gang figure out how to get the walkers out of the quarry, they choose who goes to help, but that scene has a lot of people talking. Maggie wanted to join with them, but Glenn convinced her not to because the town needed to feel secure. However, Maggie made the statement, “That’s not the only reason,” leaving people wondering if Glenn and Maggie might be pregnant. At the end of the episode a shock came to the group as they were taking the walkers away from the quarry. As Sasha and Abraham drove in a car and Daryl on his bike leading them 25 miles away, the scene was shattered by a loud horn going off. Everything was falling out of line and a lot of questions were flying with who was making the noise.
Episode two started off with yet another climactic scene as it opens with Enid (which we know very little about besides her and Carl getting cozy in a tree together) as we watch her parents being ripped apart by walkers. Enid was left on her own from that point being one of the youngest survivors in the show’s history to stand alone. We watched as she wrote JSS on everything which later we find out stands for, Just Survive Somehow. Thing’s turn for Enid as we watch Ron get closer with her and Carl watches seeming to become a little jealous. With the town of Alexandria awaiting Rick’s return we are thrown into a whirlwind of excitement as a burning body gets thrown over the wall. We finally discovered where the loud horn was coming from, a semi was driven into one of the walls.
Not too long after that we finally get to meet the Wolves, one of the biggest threats since the Governor or even Terminus. The Wolves start mutilating people left and right but what caught most people’s attention was when Morgan returned without Rick and everyone else. The show hit a high climax when we watched Carol turn herself back into “Rambo Carol”. She dressed as one of the Wolves to take them out along with Morgan. We watched Jessie come out of her shell from being a scared abused housewife just like Carol herself used to be. Jessie protected her two sons by brutally killing a woman that’s with the Wolves with scissors. Carl protected Enid but also saved Ron’s life as he was being chased by one of the Wolves. When Ron saw Enid with Carl walls flew up and he walked away to fend for himself. We have so much to look forward to as the show continues with a lot of mysteries to be answered.
Emily Culbertson
Reporter