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Carl asks his parents to practice how to shoot with Shane and Rick and Lori agree. Glenn discloses to Dale about the walkers in the barn and Lori's pregnancy. Dale seeks out Hershel and discusses the subject with him. Dale learns that Hershel's wife and son-in-law are among the walkers trapped in the barn. Lori finds that Hershel wants them to move from his farm and she questions Rick whether he knows Hershel's intention. Shane presses Andrea to shoot targets in movement and she is upset with him. He invites Andrea to go with him to seek out Sophia. Dale talks with Lori about her pregnancy and she tells that she has not told to Rick yet. Lori asks Glenn to bring something to her and he goes to the town with Maggie. Maggie tells that the walkers in the barn are her mother and friends and believe that they are sick. Out of the blue, she is attacked by a walker and Glenn defends her. Maggie delivers the abortion pills to Lori. Shane and Andrea break in a house trying to find Sophia and they are surrounded by walkers. However they escape and have sex in the car. When they arrive in the farm, the jealous Dale suspects of them and has a conversation with Shane. Lori swallows several pills but she regrets and vomits them. Rick finds the medicine package and seeks out Lori that discloses her pregnancy and her relationship with Shane.

"Secrets" is a dramatic episode of "The Walking Dead" with revelations of secrets. The immature and loudmouth Glenn can not support the burden of a secret and tells about the walkers and Lori's pregnancy to Dale. Sooner Glenn discloses to Maggie that Lori is pregnant. The selfish Hershel says to Lori that he wants the entire group out of his farm as soon as possible. Dale discloses his suspicions to Shane about Otis and the tension between these two men will certainly lead to something serious in the near future. And Lori finally tells Rick about her pregnancy and her affair with Shane in the worst moment of their relationship.

My only negative remark in this show is the training of shooting nearby the farm. In many episodes, the survivors did not use their weapons since the noise attracts walkers and they need to spare ammunition. Now they do exactly the opposite in a complete inconsistency with the previous season. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Secrets"

Note: On 10 April 2016, I saw this show again.

I found this episode to be pretty exciting, overall, with Glenn spilling his two "secrets" and Dale confronting Shane the way he did. Andrea was her usual annoying self but there was some real chemistry between her and Shane! When she reached over and grabbed his stuff and then he stopped the car and said "well come on over here then" that was HOT!! Andrea DOES seem to know what she wants at all times. Very assertive.

Now for the morning-after-pills scenario with Lori. I was ignorant as to how this medicine actually works so I looked it up. Turns out you DO NOT TAKE THESE PILLS ONCE YOU ARE ALREADY PREGNANT!!! Come on writers! Didn't you consult someone about this??? You have to take these pills 1-5 days POST intercourse with no protection!! So if you've had sex and not used a condom, or missed your birth control pill or were sexually assaulted then, and only then will these pills work. NOT once you have confirmed you are pregnant. Very disappointed that the audience will see this and think that this is an "alternative" to a positive test. So not so.

Maggie look up for Glenn as a leader and more than a scapegoat for the walkers. Meanwhile Shane is coming to terms with his dark side more and more thanks to the fuel Dale gave to him. Lori breaks up and tells Rick about the baby and Shane. Rick have to come to terms with it. Amazing episode that covers a lot of ground.

After last week's big reveal that Hershel has been keeping zombies cooped up in his barn, I went into this week's episode thinking things would kick off big time, with the group being exposed to this discovery. However, "Secrets' became very fitting to its title as only Dale learned of this news and things at farm carried on regardless. Instead, the attention in this episode was paid to some pretty awesome character developments and overall made for another well-scripted episode.

To start with, it seems as if Lori and Maggie were playing a game of psychological buckaroo with Glenn, burdening him with the secrets of the zombie barn motel, Lori's pregnancy turned abortion and the fact that she hasn't told Rick yet. After a couple of very poor and obvious awkward scenes Glenn finally kicked the lot and unloaded his secrets to Dale in the most direct way possible "There's walkers in the barn and Lori's pregnant!" – annoying fumbling reveal averted.

This was exciting to see, but what most of us wanted to happen next, didn't, as instead of telling the group, Dale took it upon himself to play the wise old man and spoke to Lori & Hershel independently. Both of these scenes were performed well but were not half as great as the scene between Shane & Dale later on. Hershel did give us some reasoning as to why he would keep walker's in his barn, revealing that he not only had friends in there but also family. His naïve hope for some way of curing them is very plausible given the situation, after all they are in a very remote location and he appears to have contained them well, for now anyway.

Maggie and Glenn's trip to the pharmacy this time around didn't go as well as expected, given the 'success' of the last visit. Maggie's hand getting pulled through the shelving was a real scare and a brilliant sequence, Glenn appeared petrified and somewhat hesitant as he took a moment to choose the perfect weapon to fight the zombie off with. Selecting a piece of shelving was a great choice for a near decapitation but what really quenched our thirst for some zombie slaying was Glenn's beat down afterwards.

What I like most about this scene was that it shows that Glenn can bring it when he needs to and that he isn't just the show's live bait or comic relief. Maggie really made this point hit home after she let loose on Lori, telling Glenn that he's a leader and nobody else sees it or wants to recognize it. This was fantastic and hopefully that seed of doubt will develop later on, especially if Andrea nominates him for some more zombie fishing. Maybe next time instead of making a trip to the pharmacy they should just bring the pharmacy to them, given that they've got two, sorry three, horses now that Daryl's steed has found it's way home – I wonder if he saw Sofia on the way back? A lot of fans would agree that this season might have been better if the group had left Andrea back in the soon-to-explode CDC. Her constant demand for a weapon was becoming increasingly annoying and I'm glad to see it's been answered. During her and Shane's exploration of the deserted community it seems we must have missed the part where she found a PS3, complete with the latest installment of Call of Duty. What other reason could there be for her vast improvement in shooting? 20 minutes beforehand she could barely hit a swinging log and now she's picking zombies off with head-shots. No wonder she was so turned-on returning to base. Shane Walsh – Kill Confirmed.

Finishing off the episode was a brilliant bit of acting from two of the show's leads and the double reveal of both the pregnancy and Lori & Shane's affair was very satisfying. Rick acknowledging her fling with Shane wasn't something to be expected to makes sense in many ways.

As we approach the mid-season finale next week I'm really hoping things escalate quickly. It's a great improvement to see how this season has slowed down and found a consistency compared to the extremes of the first season. It would have been nice to go out with some sort of a bang to make next week's installment more eagerly anticipated but that shouldn't take anything away from this being another solid episode. One thing is for sure though, we all now know the answer to the age-old joke, "why did the chicken cross the road?" – to get the hell away from that barn.

8/10 Scene of the Episode – Dale questioning Shane's story on the night of Otis' death and him pointing the gun at Rick in Season 1 made for fantastic viewing, very dramatic and full of intensity – just what the show's about.

Secrets shows the Walking Dead has deteriorating into a soap opera! Everyone has a secret which creates sub-plots and complex relationships. I miss the first season high budget science fiction stories where Rick has to fight zombies. The Walking Dead used to be like the movie Omega man. Secrets has a few good points. One of The sub-plot where the farm owner keeps the zombies in the barn because they are sick people explain why there is a zombie epidemic. People are emotional, and could not deal with the problem rationally. The other emotion vs rational sub-plot is an argument who on The Walking Dead should be in charge of the group. Shane who is a ruthless leader or Rick who leads with more humanity. The climax of Secrets shows the differences between the two rivals. Okay episode, six out of ten. I wish the series would get back to its science fiction roots.

Well this was a very good episode indeed. "Secrets" was all about the characters who are keeping secrets from one another and how they are revealed. Lori is confronted by Rick about the empty abortion box in their tent, Dale talks to Hershel about the barn after Glen tells him, and Dale begins an argument with Shane about the night with Odis and how his story was bland. All of these scenes were great which I will get into later.

The episode starts off with Shane finding Carl with a gun under his belt. After Lori settles down, she and the rest of the group allow Carl to keep the gun as long as he is trained how to use it. Chandler Riggs who plays Carl was great in this episode. He spoke a little more than the previous episodes but delivered with his "I want to help protect this group with you guys, and I can't do it without a gun." Andrea also wants to train with shooting and goes on a private tour with Shane. Shane was a little of a show-off when he could hit a moving tree branch when Adrea couldn't.

Later, Andrea and Shane drive into a village hoping to find Sophia. They didn't expect a lot of zombies there though. And on the way back, Shane has sex with Andrea after getting off on their little adrenaline rush.

Glenn and Maggie went back into town to get Lori abortion pills (which I don't blame her - even though it's a sick thing to do). After this part the great scenes occur. Dale confronts Hershel about the "moaning" in the farm and how he thinks he should keep it a secret and focus on the rest of the group and trusting them. After Andrea and Shane come back, Dale immediately pulls Shane to the side and confronts him about things that Shane has done very wrong. While Dale was just trying to protect Andrea, Shane took the offensive and we began to see a different personality of Shane that we haven't seen yet. It was a powerful scene that if Dale continues to confront Shane about Odis and aiming at Rick, Dale will be in serious trouble.

At the end, Rick finds abortion pill boxes empty in their tent and decides to confront Lori about it after she vomited them out. Lori also tells Rick that she and Shane slept with each other. Rick acknowledges it but doesn't become extremely angry because of the circumstances.

All I know is that the mid-season finale is the next episode. I know the show will deliver a cliffhanger and we will have to wait until February to finish the season but I have faith that it will be great. This season started off slow but has picked up the last few episodes. I am dying to see what happens next and if they succeed, it will be a great accomplishment. 9/10

The Walking Dead has turned into a completely polarizing show with some people loving it and some people hating it. What the show suffers from is the writers creating too many dramatic cliffhangers and not knowing what to do with them. For example in a recent episode entitled "Secrets," the characters spend the entire episode revealing many of the most developed dramatic cliffhangers in the show leading up to that point. Because of the shear amount, it takes almost the entire episode to "clear the air" and makes the viewer feel as if he/she has wasted his time up until that point seeing where the story-lines are going. The show also suffers from many writing inconsistencies and plot-holes in season 2.

Regardless, the show has had many high points and exciting moments. Even the characters that aren't like-able are memorable. The zombies look and sound amazing and much of the camera work is largely fantastic.

Given the breadth and depth of the source material, a fan of the show can only hope the show can strike a balance of survival horror and drama, rather than get lost in its own ambition. Time will tell.

The Walking Dead: 6/10 with potential to be much, much more.

Feeding the walkers is incredibly stupid. No matter who they used to be before turning. I like Maggie more and more over time. Maybe mostly cause she's not too fond of Lori, one thing we have in common. I like Dale, he's my favorite character aside from Rick. He's smart. Shane is annoying as hell. I feel below zero sympathy for Lori. That dumb, whiny skank. Rick knows about her and Shane and he still has any respect for her? That's getting annoying.

That moment when the blonde woman breaks the poor hens legs upset me terribly. Not because she did it without giving a damn but because, every day, hundreds of millions of chickens are destroyed in similarly painful circumstances. The walking dead are less than animals in the sense that they're not sentient, but we still think of them as monsters despite the despicable acts we commit on a daily basis. Unacceptable!

This is another one of those melodramatic episodes that doesn't really achieve what TWD should set out to be according to the bulk of the series thus far.

• Andrea is mad at Shane over some offhanded comments that he made during gun training, but then in the same episode begins to hook up with him, because why not, I guess.

• Lori finds out Hershel wants them gone now that Carl is better, but she also is still hiding her pregnancy, and she's mad Carl is learning to shoot in an apocalypse?

• Dale finds out from Glenn that there are walkers in the barn, and that Lori is pregnant, so he spends the majority of the episode putting his nose where it doesn't belong. Especially when it comes to him and Shane.

• Maggie and Glenn make another run into town where trouble strikes and Maggie realizes the world isn't as it seems to her father.

• Rick eventually finally figures out that Lori is pregnant after she fails to hide her evidence and she tells him about her affair with Shane which only makes matters worse.

Not the worst episode of the series, but definitely just a means to an end sort of affair to get us to the mid-season finale. There is of course human drama in the apocalypse, but it shouldn't all be condensed into one episode like this.

This episode, like the last two, focuses more on dialogue than on action and character development. good points: the opening of the episode is quite theoretical. Maggie and Glenn's relationship worked well and I love their interaction. Glenn Badass killing the walker with a shelf. always give incredible and always contributing good dialogue and progress to the plot. the part of shane and andrea was very good and both characters get along very well and complement each other. Jon Berthnal as always had an incredible interpretation. I liked the character's progress and the scene when they kill walkers was well used and used with good direction. The best of the episode was Lori deciding the abortion. This is important as it is a sensitive issue and is developed in a good way. The final scene was pretty good. bad points: the chapter has a slow pace and sometimes feels heavy. Why do they keep going to the pharmacy? Take everything and go. I know they need to go there for the benefit of the plot but it feels forced.

This is where all secrets are out. They made me really satisfied. I wanted Rick to know the truth about Lori and Shane, they really made it happened. I love the walking dead for it.

This episode has the things I like and the things I don't. So, it makes it an awesome episode. What I don't like is that Maggie afraid of the zombies while they have a lot of zombies in their barn. She's afraid of them to bit her in the pharmacy, but she doesn't afraid of those zombies that are staying in the barn bite her? She can consider those zombies which are in their barn her family but she can't consider that zombie that tried to bite her is also a human? That's very selfish of her. I don't like her for that.

The other thing I also don't like Shane being someone who always sleeps with whoever girl he met. First, Loria and now, Andrea? I really dislike that kind of guy. 😡 Having sex with Shane is the biggest mistake that Andrea ever made. And also Shane's behaviour is really bad. I don't like him anymore because of it. There's one thing that Dale's right was about Shane. Shane really wanted to shoot Rick but he's changed his mind because of something. Whatever it was, it didn't matter anymore. He wanted to shoot Rick is the important part. Because of Lori, he even wanted to shoot Rick. That's what made him a bad guy. I just hope that Dale wouldn't die in Shane's hands.

I still don't understand why Andrea still wanted to shoot at zombies even they could run away. Didn't she know that because of her, they both might be their foods? I hate Andrea for that. 😡😒

What I love the most is that scene where Glenn told secrets to Dale. His face is really cute. I totally love him. 😁 All in all, this episode shows that secrets can't stay quiet forever. Eventually, it will be known. And they made the title harmony with the episode. This is one of the reasons why I love the walking dead TV show. Every episode has it's own interesting things. It totally makes me to continue to watch the next episodes. Episodes are so cool.

This season has been appointed as a slow one, with lots of bad dialogue, etcetera etcetera. Well this is the ultimate proof. The mood from season 1 is gone, the horror is gone, everything is gone. TERRIBLE script, bad bad acting from Shane, Lori, Carl, Carol, but especially Shane. Jon Bernthal is so bad at playing Shane that you think backwards on how can you support the badass character to even exist. It goes really bad when Rick keeps having the same lines over and over again, the same facial expressions, the same pointless talking. And its a shame when you have a good actor in hands like him. It goes to waste when the best character in a show is the cool Daryl, with the best interpretation by far as seen in the last episode by Norman Reedus.

The show turned into a soap with secrets about pregnancy! I mean pregnancy?? How does a horror-zombie themed show turns into a romantic drama? Shane-Lori-Rick, Glen-Maggie, Shane-Andrea, Dale-Andrea. The walking dead turned into a bad Lost. I could understand it was about the characters but it is so poorly written and acted that it's just plain bad. And it's a shame because I really wish this show to be good. One forced zombie per episode? What a waste of time...

With the wealth of potential story lines available this was disappointing to see so early on ... in the vernacular I believe this is what is known as "jumping the shark." Another episode on the farm listening to them whine and snivel about the unfairness and injustice of it all *yawn,* Rick Grimes shows he's a proud cuckold in a fancy new skirt and not one but two Hollywood kook left talking points made.

First the absurdity of anyone in a situation like this objecting to guns or learning how to defend themselves with one should be apparent to anyone and the over the top hyper-sexual response from Andrea's after her first zombie shoot is about as cliché as it gets. Now the idea of the original farm members never having had to put down a walker just looks dumb.

Not content with getting in the - psycho sexual cliché about gun owners the writers feel the need to pile on with the pro-abortion it's her choice commentary. Guess the pro-gay, pro-union and anti-conservative/Republican episodes won't be far behind in this now meandering mess - can't wait to see how they get in a dig at Sarah Palin...

Oh wait, yes I can. Get ready to stick a fork in this series it's almost done as the writers have already clearly lost their way and probably deviated to far from the essentials to recover.