An award for creativity goes to Lori for her intrepid use of car parts, while Glenn gets our “Go Back to the Range” grading for trying to shoot walkers from 100 yards. It’s been a while since we’ve seen this much carnage. If we take Mazzara at his word, we probably won’t have to wait very long. In the last scene, when Lori asks Rick, “You’ll kill the living to protect what’s yours? Shane thinks I’m his,” we know it’s coming soon. Andrea is aligning with Shane (and possibly Daryl he’s just being a jerk right now), and pretty much the rest of the group is with Rick. What “Triggerfinger” also did was set up the sides that will eventually face off in a battle for control of the group. We’re now finding out how hard it can be to make that decision. Who decides who lives and who dies? we asked last week. The pacing picked up, yes, but this new wild west mentality opened up a whole new possibility for brutal imagery and ethical pitfalls around every corner. In those few minutes, we not only had about a dozen walker kills, but some of the most intense violence yet. When even Hershel decides to leave the guy for dead, Rick tears his leg off the spike with a gooey ripping sound and the show blacks out to commercial. Darwinian Rick, who five minutes ago was willing to kill anyone, suddenly becomes compassionate Rick again, and with walkers closing in on all sides, Hershel tries to amputate the unfortunate young man’s leg to save him. What he does hit is the spike of a wrought iron fence. In short order, Glenn freezes like coward, Hershel shoots a guy who then has his face torn off by walker and one of the guys shooting at Rick jumps off a roof and manages to miss the ground.
This was madness and didn’t end well for anyone. We got a glimpse of what anarchy would look like in Season One when Rick had to save Glenn from a gang in Atlanta, but that situation concluded quickly. After Rick tries unsuccessfully to reason with the men outside the bar, the situation devolves into a gunfight. While we made the obligatory jumps back to the farm where the crew discovers that Lori is missing and (surprise!) Shane goes to rescue her, the action focused, thankfully on the pickle facing Rick and company. That’s just in the first four minutes.īut the pace hardly slowed. Lori stabs him in the eye with the car’s gear shifter then dispatches a second walker with a one-two combo of a hubcap and a pistol shot to the face. ( MORE: See the 25 Best Horror Movies of All-TIME)įirst, Lori is staring down a hungry zombie, then we’re back in the bar where Rick, Hershel and Glenn are hiding from associates of the strangers Rick’s just killed, then back to the car where the zombie is practically tearing his face off to get in the smashed window. Then “Bleumph!” a walker smashes his face into the glass and we’re off to the races. The episode began with the ticking sound of a car’s flashers and faded in on Lori’s crumpled figure in the driver’s seat. It took all of 12 seconds to see our first walker. But in the spectrum of crawl-walk-run, “Nebraska” was a steady jog. As we pointed out last week, the midseason premiere was well-crafted, with a few undeniably tense scenes. When Glen Mazzara, Walking Dead‘s new showrunner, told New York magazine that what he’s trying to do with Season Two’s second half “is to accelerate and then figure out more story,” this was a welcome plan, given the first half’s utterly lethargic pacing.
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