Sunday, March 17, 2013

The Walking Dead - "Prey" (Mar. 17, 2013)


WATCH OUT FOR SPOILERS!

This week on AMC's The Walking Dead, Andrea decides to leave Woodbury and makes a dangerous escape. Meanwhile, Tyreese, Sasha, Ben, and Allen face some dissension within their group.

With only a couple of episodes left this season, I was disappointed once again with the pacing this week. Last week effectively served as a setup for the epic showdown to come, and I'd hoped we might get a little taste of that this week. This isn't the case.
Things are pretty slow until the last 20 minutes when there seems to be a sudden onslaught of zombie action. All effective manners of burning, shooting, impaling, and stabbing are employed in the last half of the episode.

I also couldn't quite wrap my head around the significance of the episode's title, "Prey". Towards the end, it made a bit more sense when the Governor and Andrea played cat-and-mouse in an abandoned warehouse after her defection from Woodbury.
I liked the ending though. It had a creepy "Saw" vibe, which was kind of a fresh horror element to go along with the consistent sense of dread from the zombie and human threats.

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