The Walking Dead: Season 5 Episode 15 WDF Review

Episode 15:  Try

Is anyone else getting depressed that we are almost at the finale already?  We'll be taking up a collection to purchase a truck load of ice cream.  The good kind.

This episode begins with Deanna and family mourning the loss of Aiden.  Martha Stewart Carol is baking a casserole for the family in classic Southern-Funeral style, which is left abandoned on their front porch while Deanna burns the condolences note left with it.  The symbolic shift in mentality wethinks.  Oh, the times they are a-changin'.  Meanwhile the video of Nicholas' account of the disastrous run is played... and he blames it all squarely on Glenn.  Glenn, however, is giving his testimony of the true events to Rick.

Daryl and Aaron are out tracking through the woods and come upon another walker marked with a 'W'.  Back in town, Carol outs Rick on his fondness for Jessie.  Rick brings the matter of Pete's violence to Deanna's attention, but she already knows.  He wants to kill him, Deanna wants to banish him.  Knowing that would just result in Pete returning to exact revenge, he decides to take matters into his own hands and talk Jessie into coming into his protection.  Rick's feelings for Jessie are made clear between them.

Sasha is going a little crazy, and runs off in a quest to rid the woods around Alexandria of Walkers.  Rosita and Michonne follow after, and after mowing down about 25 of them (during which Michonne starts to miss her katana), Sasha breaks down in a way that only Sasha can and returns to the watch tower where she continues to pick off Walkers as they approach the wall.

Pete walks in on Jessie and Rick during their discussion and the two begin a bar-room brawl complete with crashing through the window onto the porch.  Drawing the attention of the whole town, Carl and Jessie attempt to pull them apart, but after the two nearly kill each other Rick finally lets go.  While waving around his gun, he proclaims Deanna's way of doing things dangerous.  He mocks her by asking if she's going to kick him out... and in his speech nearly gives her reason to until Michonne puts an end to his tirade by knocking him out.

And so we are again left with the question of where the finale will take us.  Will Rick seize power or will there be a conflict with an outside threat?  Or some combination of the two?  Perhaps Michonne will emerge as the clear-headed leader?  With Nicholas, Father StabsYouInTheBack, and Rick himself practically proclaiming our crew to be evil, dangerous people, we at least know some internal conflict will continue.  The sneak peeks so far reveal Rick recovering from his fight-wounds and Carol threatening Pete if he doesn't tend to Tara.  Carol's been losing favor, you know, threatening kids and everything, so something is bound to happen to justify her behavior and bring her character back from Maleficentville similar to her saving the day at Terminus.  We hope.

Gale Anne Hurd did promise that there would be blood, and not all of it Walker blood, in the finale.  No one has been given the typical "swan song" episode lately, so it's anybody's guess at who's next on the chopping block.  So bring your cheer sticks and your Kleenex, folks.  Hard to say what's going to happen now.

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