WOW! This season premiere did not go as I expected. In fact it was better than I anticipated! I thought they would spend a part of the season with the whole debacle about people trusting Rick vs people wanting to exile him, and I like how it was basically solved in the flashbacks.
Also, it was good to see the follow through on the events of the last episode, like how Morgan and Rick reacquaintance again and that Morgan made Rick think a bit about the way he is behaving. Speaking of Morgan really great that he spot Carol for what she really is.
Eugene was adorable in this episode.
And I LOVE Maggie and Tara talking, and how Maggie managed to show Tara that even though we hate Nicholas they didn't have that much double standards in the way they treated others. On this note I do hope he becomes a helpful person to the group. Same with Father Gabriel.
Kudos for Jessie not being all puppy in love with Rick, makes me respect that she understand and agrees with him, but is trying to solve things on her own!
And the plan was great, kept my interest the whole episode, and that surprising ending was just what makes me like this show... definitely didn't see that coming.
I can't wait for the next episode
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParentSpoilers2015-10-13T16:21:54Z
Perfectly acceptable. Probably more like a 6.5/10 if I'm honest with myself. I liked the structure of the episode, juxtaposing the walker plan in action with black and white flashbacks to show what happened immediately after the events of the Season 5 finale, but the show leaned on it a bit too hard at times. Also, I'm pretty sick and tired of pairs of characters having heavy-handed colloquies with each other about how "things have changed" or how "we're not who we used to be" or "that's just who you are". Those are all worthwhile themes, but the show has beaten them to death and had trouble finding new angles on them. Plus the character of Morgan is drifting dangerously into some uncomfortable "magical negro" trope territory.
As usual, Carol, Darryl, Mischonne, seem to have interesting moments and bits of story potential, Eugene is entertaning and oddly compelling, Abrhaham, Sasha, Glen, and Maggie could go either way, and Rick is kind of the dull everyman drifting back and forth between kindness and cruelty. I'm not really interested in the battle for Rick's soul anymore, even if it's influenced by the hardened leader of the gated community, but we'll see where all this goes.