Review by andrewpugh607

Having just seen this truly astounding episode I took a look on IMBD to see the feedback. 7.9 at time of writing?? I mean the series (and it's a great series) is topping 9 so the low score for this truly beautifully crafted episode made me a bit sad deep in my soul.

I'm guessing there are a lot of people out there who felt short changed on the zombie/violence content this week. No doubt a large amount of low scores come from gamers unhappy that the concept of the game is somehow corrupted by this ( Now I kind of get how readers of books get annoyed if an adaptation goes off script but surely a video game adaption needs some fleshing out? It's like complaining Pirates of the Caribbean didn't stay faithful to the ride!) Sadly no doubt some who feel agendas are being pushed (plenty of examples in shows where this happens - this isn't one of them). Maybe some who felt it was a filler and out of place. I myself did wonder why the story had veered off from the main characters so abruptly. But then I realised how much context was being provided. How across the country individuals were surviving and just how long the human race had been broken. Its easy to show a catastrophe and then come back with a caption "20 years later" - this episode showed two men getting old together, isolated against a disintegrated society. And without spoilers it was done beautifully, as I said - it managed to transcend the show.