Mary and Jamie didn't quite like this episode and didn't have much to say about it. We why below and then listen to the podcast.

This week Rick on The Walking Dead S5E10, Them, the gang were all together trying to make their way to Washington DC. They found themselves out of gas literally and figuratively. Struggling to get by without food or water proved a major challenge for Sasha, Daryl, and Maggie. All three of them having recently lost someone close to them they didn't find much worth living for anymore. The group was walking for day and days and as painful as it was for them it was just as painful for the audience because it was boring.

You know something is wrong when the most excitement you get is a thunderstorm passes through and the group is forced to find refuge in a barn that Daryl had found earlier. Interestingly enough the tree people who seemed the most lost were the first three to help as the group found themselves holding the doors of the barn closed as walkers were trying to make there way in from the storm. Yes, that's right Sasha, Daryl, and Maggie were the one that held the door closed until the rest of the group joined them. I guess this was a symbolic way of showing us that they had not completely given up yet.

I forgot to mention that Rick gave a speech this week that reminiscent of one from the comics in which he called the group the Walking Dead. Although in the comic Rick was alluding to their eventual fate, on the show Rick was explaining a way they all can cope and try to carry on even when things seem darkest.

Finally at the end Aaron shows up while Maggie and Sasha watch a sunrise once again letting us know they have found hope once again. Aaron knows who Rick is and wants to be taken to him. Was he the one that left the water in the road? Has Morgan met up with Aaron before the group and told Aaron all about them? I guess we have to wait until next week to find that out.

One more thing before I go and you listen to the podcast below, it seems that The Walking Dead has stumbled into a formula for the show. The group is out on their own and things get bad, someone dies and a few are hopeless, they meet a new group and a suspicious, and then they find a place to hold up and things are all right for awhile. Once this cycle is done wash rinse repeat. I hope the TV show does not get mired down in this formula because long drawn out interlude between exciting story arcs does not make great television. Stop giving us filler and move the story along.

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