Bounty

Boy, now that's the type of episode that this show used to give us every week. Tremendous tension, a poignant conflict, and even a light hearted tone to complement the tough moments.

I'm all in with Alpha right now. I was one of the consistent defenders of Negan, but Alpha's change of pace is exactly what's needed. Merely Samantha Morton's voice is enough to umhinge even the most calm audience member. Those sequences made even more intense by the involvement of a baby (what else is new) which Alpha was prepared to let die for the safety of her people as a whole. I mean, even Negan wouldn't have been that cold hearted!

The other half of the episode focused on Carol, Ezekiel, and Jerry's venture to get a film projector bulb at an old movie theater, which was of course swamped with dozens of walkers. While I was begging for the show to go right back to the main conflict every time we cut to this section of the episode, it does end up bringing some much needed levity to an otherwise extremely dark week of The Walking Dead.

8.8/10

I can really empathise with the screen writers on how much writing they had to do when the cast got 'so' big... really building an in depth, psychological story to the viewers.

Samantha Morton is portraying Alpha in such a accurate way from the graphic novel. We get to see The Whisperers in action and they are truly terrifying and animals, I can't wait to see more of them. The character development from last episode is shown here, Daryl seeing himself like a possible father figure to Lydia, I hope it will go down that road. I've said it before but I really like Magna's group, they are so likeable, even more than in the graphic novel. They grew on me there but on the show they are just so well cast, really giving us great character development from them and now Connie is getting more screen time it will help with her development as a character.

I've missed seeing The Kingdom, Ezekiel and the group. I have wanted a cinema zombie sequence for couple of seasons and it was executed perfectly, I understand them completely why they want a new bulb to watch movies, makes perfect sense. They finally did a great choice of music in that sequence, flowed together well with the characters and editing. Meera Menon did a great job at directing the episode, she's new to the show but she didn't disappoint.

This season has been such a fresh and great season so far. This episode made me love Daryl again and I fell in love with Connie, still not liking Henry taking Carl's storyline but we will see how that goes in the future. The ratings may be down but I for sure am loving Season 9 and it's the show I fell in love with. Thank you Angela Kang!

Another solid episode in this back half of season 9. Loved the light and dark tones of this episode throughout, the kingdom scenes were fun and at times very funny and the hilltop scenes were extremely tense and dark. The standout moment has to go to Connie and the baby in the cornfield, one of the best scenes I've seen this season!

P.s Alpha and the whisperes are coming across much better than the comics.