After some particularly dreary episodes, I'd gotten to the point where I was contemplating bailing on THE WALKING DEAD. I've never cared for the comic (which has more gaping holes in its logic than a Republican rant) and the last "season" came close to being The Last Straw... and then THIS episode came out of nowhere and there was reason to Hope again. Sure, the show is essentially a "soap opera," as George Romero himself put it, but so was DARK SHADOWS (the original series). The focus on CHARACTER is what makes this one of the best episodes we've yet seen (and the fact that it featured prominently the lovely Lauren Cohan was another major plus): all too often, characters are introduced and killed off in an assembly-line fashion that leaves the viewer totally uninvolved; a little more depth (like this) couldn't possibly hurt the show.
