AMC’s The Walking Dead has come back with a vengeance and each week’s episode keeps getting better and better. Warning: this contains a few spoilers, so if you aren’t completely caught up, you might not want to read ahead.
At the end of the fourth season, we last saw Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and the group, they had been taken hostage by a mysterious group in Terminus.
This season started off with a bang, as the whole first episode is a slaughterhouse. It turns out that Rick and the gang are being held hostage by a group of cannibals. Thanks to Carol, the group makes a clean escape and burns Terminus to the ground. As the group reunites and seeks new shelter, they see a new face in Father Gabriel, a reverend who takes care of his church building all alone. Rick and the group seek shelter at Father Gabriel’s church building when Bob is taken hostage by none other than Gareth, the leader of the cannibal group from Terminus. When Gareth’s group of cannibals start to eat Bob one limb at a time, Bob reveals that he’s been bitten by a walker, so they release him to go back to Rick and the group. Rick decides to take up arms against Gareth and the cannibals by setting a trap for them and getting rid of them once and for all.
In last Sunday’s episode, audiences finally get to see where Beth (Emily Kinney) went when she was kidnapped last season. It turns out that Beth was taken to a hospital by a group of people who saw that she was in trouble when a group of walkers had surrounded her. When Beth wakes up, she must find a way to get out of this hospital, but she faces many obstacles, including the people that brought her there.
In this episode, Beth really grows as a character. She is no longer that little girl the audience saw at Hershel’s farm, but she’s also not the same as when she and Daryl escaped from the prison last season. Beth really comes into her own in the episode, as she is forced to make tough decisions and is put into dangerous situations but handles all of these situations very calmly. You can really tell that she has learned a lot from Daryl, but also still abiding by what Hershel taught her while growing up as a child.
This episode offers a lot of character development for Beth, showing that she’s more than what we first expected her to be, and is another great episode of The Walking Dead overall.
