The End of Everything

This episode is the first that's given any insight into the various mysterious reasons that Rick disappeared. It's a fascinating watch. It also does a great job developing Al's character in a meaningful way.

Actually Isabelle is a returning and could be very important character in future eps. Could this secret place be where Rick was taken?

This episode is recommended for fans of either show or just interested in the The Walking Dead universe and the showrunners, crew and cast did amazing from the locations, action sequences, drama and the acting. Phenomenal writing in this episode which was needed as what they were trying to do and it was a success. I really found the high focus on Althea necessary for two reasons, we finally got to see her grow as a character and learn new things about her which makes you understand her and the other thing being Maggie Grace have the acting capability of doing a solo episode which resulted in one of the season's best episodes. The crew behind the episode delivered suspense and great character development.

We learnt a lot in this episode, information that is useful for one of the show's heroes and the other thing is of course the three circle community, they did a great job at giving us a wider picture of who they are and they got me really hyped for the Rick Grimes movies.

Yet again I enjoyed this episode of season 5. Very solid season so far, at least for me. I wonder why some people who clearly hate this franchise are wasting their time with this... Anyways, Al is one of my favorite characters and Maggie Grace delivers a great performance in this episode. Isabelle is an interesting new entry to the show and I really hope we'll see more of her in the future. The actress (Sydney Lemmon) did a fantastic job. The whole climbing action had me on edge and I liked how the scene was directed. Definitely a thrilling moment! I hope that wasn't the last thing we saw from the helicopter people on FTWD. That'd be disappointing.

There's potential here, to get out of this vicious circle of frontier existence loops that after 8 years are the only thing they could be, repetitive, and the 3 circle story line offers to take it somewhere different for a change. I liked the climbing sequence a bit of change of scenery is good after all. There was an attempt to explore Althea's character set up, (the diligent reporter who has to get the story), and a bit of back story about her brother and how he died because of her driving force, but it was kind of rushed through and didn't really ring solidly. There were a few badly set up and delivered details in this one. The bite proof vest just when Althea gets her first bite, after knowing better for her entire existence in the WD world, loosing a boot, the obligatory beer sponsorship placement in the top of the mountain to follow the 'beer solves everything and is civilisation' theme, I liked watching an Althea based story, she's an interesting character and a good actor but we're back to the characters not being given good enough material to deliver. I'm not feeling her driving force to record the history of people so their lives mean something, which is a great theme to think about. Then the lesbian kiss scene, which rather than be a wow moment came across as dragging out another overdone trope, it's been used so often on shows now it feels lazy. This episode doesn't have a credited writer on it, just a bunch of story editors and a staff writer David Johnson so we can't surmise who's delivering and not delivering from this. Ashley Cardiff who did deliver a couple of episodes back was executive story editor so it did pass through her desk, so, not quite as optimistic as I was a couple of weeks ago, but, it wasn't garbage, so that's something.