No Way Out

Take a bow Andrew Lincoln, for such brilliant expressions and performance, for the opportunity that I could watch such amazing justice to Rick Grimes. One of the strongest characters of all TV shows, including Walter White and Frank Underwood, your performance is stellar. This episode just weaves all the stories into one with such finesse, the cinematography is just mind blowing, the entire episode will keep you to the edge of your seat, it's nerve wracking and will make your heart skip a beat. This is by far the best episode of TWD and one of the finest of all time TV shows. Just watch it and drown in the amazement.

I watched this episode without breathing i can easily say the challenge between people and walkers. Surprising things and the message after the episode was really interesting. This is mu favourite episodes from the all TV shows that i watched

'The Walking Dead' was to me one of the best and most addictive shows of the past decade in its prime years. Those prime years being Seasons 1-5. Which is why it angers and saddens me that Seasons 7 and 8 saw such a big decline in quality, to the extent that the show could have passed for something else entirely. One of the biggest declines for any show in my mind, have yet to see Season 9 (will do after reviewing all the episodes in Seasons 1-8) but am really hoping that it's better.

Found Season 6 to be inconsistent, though quite a lot better than what would come afterwards. Had no problems with how the season began, the first four episodes were brilliant. It was with "Now" where the season started to lose its way, the next two episodes were improvements if not quite returns to form before going backwards again with the dull mid-season finale "Start to Finish". With this second half premiere, the show is back on form and feels re-energised, not once forgetting what it was that made the show so good. To me, "No Way Out" is a contender for the best episode of Season 6, the best of the season up to this point, the best episode since "Thank You" and one of the best 'The Walking Dead' episodes, with jaw dropping tension, surprising developments and emotion that could easily pass for a season finale.

"No Way Out" as always for 'The Walking Dead' looks top notch. The gritty and audacious production design still remains, photography worthy of a film, suitably frightening make-up and visuals that don't look amateurish in any way and like they were made with heart and effort. The music is haunting and affecting, without being intrusive. The direction is some of the best of the whole of 'The Walking Dead' up to this point, both visually and providing the right amount and kind of drama.

It is one of the season's best written episodes too, the best written episode since "Here's Not Here" (by quite some way, had issues with the writing in three of the four episodes with the exception being "Heads Up"). The dialogue is taut and thought-provoking, avoiding descending into too much talk in the more dialogue-driven scenes. The characters don't bore or annoy, not behaving like idiots like they did in "Start to Finish" and the interactions between them avoid being overwrought and are instead tense and affecting.

The story is arresting and has emotional impact, shocks and more tense than the season's tension-laden first three episodes. The ending and the exit of the Andersons are especially powerful. The acting is very, very good with exceptional work from Andrew Lincoln.

Overall, truly fantastic. 10/10

I have no words for this INSANE rollercoaster! Nothing could prepare me for it and I am still prossesing it all! This was everything i could want from this show, mashed together to create an unforgatble experience of PEAK TV!

The episode already kicks off with an insane first scene, involving Saviors and an RPG! From there... its a domino effect of suspense, thrills, shocks, action and incredible moments of character! With every scene.. I had no idea what to expect! This will make your heartbeat go crazy!

This was a story people are gonna tell.. the story of how an entire city united and fought the threat of their community, together!!

There are only 3 types of The Walking Dead episodes. 1. The One which spends the whole episode developing a character or something (ugh) 2. The One which sets up it's next episode (like a freaking lot of set up) 3. and The One that shows an integral plot line from the comics. (i.e. someone dies)

This episode completely made a new type of Walking Dead episodes. 4. The One that completely turns the other direction and mix everything you love about this show.

Before I praise this brilliant episode, I'll go on and say what I didn't like about this episode, it ended. Nah just kidding, some of the story lines did not end as satisfying as it could've been or they completely turn

This episode finally, FINALLY brought all the story lines together into one epic and large scale episode and intertwined them to make such an extravagant ensemble of a mid season. If there were some subplots that didn't make sense in previous episodes (like Jessie's son and their screwed up family as a whole, or that nurse), they all get a pretty much logical conclusion here, no matter how it may not at all feel satisfying there's no denying what this episode concluded what was brought to the table in previous episodes was something that was needed to further draw a sense of closure and end point for their development.

But with that said, what was so great about this episode? The dialogue, the cinematography, the symbolisms, the acting, the makeup, the striking practicality of the visual effects, being close and at least loyal to the comics and of course, the intense, high scale and breathtaking action in this episode. This episode took a different direction from what we originally thought would happen. When the first half of the season ended, we were teased with something, before this episode rolled it's opening credits, they took an ENTIRELY different direction and I think it was a good decision by the writers. Just when we thought there would be a boring pattern in TWD much like it's parallelism with it's previous seasons (rick and group finds shelter, shelter gets invaded by people or walkers, they get out of the shelter, they find new shelter), this mid-season premiere changes that and spices it all up surprisingly well. It was refreshing for the group to actually do something about the problem instead of just doing what they always did the past few seasons, it was great that we see a clear distinction that the characters HAVE developed and all those boring ass development episodes weren't wasted. This is the kind of episode that we occasionally see in TWD because this episode needed a lot of set- ups to reach it's peak, I mean, who the hell didn't want to see the whole freaking group FINALLY legitimately kick some walker ass in such a bad ass and epic way???

Rick was great in emotionally tackling the shocking events in the episode, the acting was solid from the supporting actors and the whole effort put in to make such a huge and integral episode was amazing.

In the end, this episode was shocking, intense, electrifying, mesmerizing, and breathtaking. They took another direction, and they found a way out, a way for this show to keep on excelling at what it does best.

Verdict: 9.9/10