What exactly is one second James Mays QA Ep 2 Head Squeeze James May discusses what exactly a seconds is. He also delves into how time as we know it could. The Grove Sends Horrified Viewers Straight to Therapy The Walking Dead is actually a lot like a zombie. Its a half rotted, ravenous shell driven solely by its insatiable appetite for fleshratings. Sometimes it lumbers so awkwardly that youre tempted to run in lazy circles as it chases you around the yardsearch for new and exciting GIFs as the latest plot light hour unfolds on your TV. But let your guard down at the wrong moment, and the show will sink its teeth into you. While it might not compare to recent jaw dropper episodes like Breaking Bads Ozymandias or Game of Thrones The Rains of Castamere, The Grove had me shouting plenty of disbelieving expletives at my flat screen. At the very least, The Walking Dead set a new record for going from boring to bat shit in the fewest episodes possible. But like all the shows most egregiously moonwalking victims, I should have seen it coming. Carols back, and whenever shes around, it rains crazy. Preemptive human barbecues, kindergarten cutlery classes, you name it Carol definitely knows how to stir the pot. Sunday, though, someone else was driving the whack job bus Carols star pupil and rising rabbit corpse abstract expressionist Lizzie. It turns out Lizzies crazy eyed impulse to choke baby Judith a few weeks ago was just the tip of the iceberg. This week, Lizzie finally went full Borden and swan dove right off the deep end, which leads to our first question Does John Steinbeck Deserve a Story by Credit Given the Travels With Charley quote shoehorned into Hershels apogee episode earlier this fall, we already know showrunner Scott Gimple loves him some Steinbeck. Frankly, AMC should cut the Minstrel of Monterey a royalty check Tonights episode was pretty much Of Mice and Men and Zombies. Only, even Steinbeck didnt dare to break commercial screenwritings unspoken cardinal rule, let alone break it twice in cringe inducing succession The Walking Dead didnt kill just one kid tonight, it killed two. Twitter promptly anointed Lizzie, honey, look at the flowers this weeks first new meme. After a two week detour past Daryl and Beths budding barely legal romance, on Sunday the show turned back to Tyreese, Carol, Lizzie, Mika, and baby Judith making their way to Terminus. As the group sauntered down the tracks, though, Lizzies bizarre affinity for the walkers became progressively more problematic, even as she solidified her status as Carols substitute daughter. First, Lizzie interrupted Tyreeses hammer time fun after hed spied a walker heading their way. Carol was off giving Mika one of her patented Youre weak pep talks. Next, Carol caught Lizzie playing ring around the rosy with a walker on the lawn of the bucolic pecan farmhouse where the group had decided to rest when Carol sank her knife into the dizzy zombies skull, Lizzie screamed like Carol had just dropped her puppy off at the pound. Watch The Squeeze Online Hitfix' title='Watch The Squeeze Online Hitfix' />Increasing the squeeze. Top News The Walking Dead. Watch Movies TV Online. Prime Video Unlimited Streaming of Movies TV. Amazon Germany Buy Movies on. KRN69leV-Q/S9jup4vvA4I/AAAAAAAAIqo/doAB6YKNdOc/s1600/chuck-vs-the-role-models.jpg' alt='Watch The Squeeze Online Hitfix' title='Watch The Squeeze Online Hitfix' />Finally, Lizzie confirmed what wed all suspected that she was the anonymous zombie feeder from the first half of the season by sneaking out to bring the pet walker shed spared from the wrath of Tyreeses hammer some tasty, live rat Mc. Watch Mobius Tube Free. Nuggets. Considering the horrors unleashed by the zombie apocalypse, these peccadilloes seemed like a childs regressive response to a world gone mad. Carol was far more concerned about Mikas proto veganisminability to shoot a deer for dinner. But none of that prevented Tyreese and Carol from contemplating a more permanent stay on the pecan farm though Tyreeses unabated mourning over his girlfriend Karens toasty death wouldve necessitated quite a few awkward silences on Carols part. Still, Carol looked like she could stomach it. When the whole gang had to take out a slew of charbroiled walkers passing through the farm presumably toasted by the symbolic flames of Daryl and Beths erstwhile hooch house, it felt like Lizzie was gradually getting over her fantasy that walkers were anything but mindless, flesh guzzling monsters. Then, we hit WTF territory. After another conversation during which Carol bit her tongue about frying Tyreeses Ok. Cupid squeeze, the show delved straight into the dark night of its soul. Everything looked so innocent from afar as Carol and Tyreese returned to the farm baby Judith playing on a blanket in the grass, Lizzie standing gleefully over Mikas prone body. Except, Mika was a little bit too still Lizzies smile just five degrees too wide. And, oh yeah, there was a bowie knife in her blood soaked hand as she pulled her gun to keep Carol and Tyreese at bay. Lizzie explained with all the lucidity of a serial killer that shed volunteered her sister and was about to volunteer baby Judith for a little foray into flatlining to demonstrate her finer points about the walkers ontological status. Lizzie had gutted her sister and floated irretrievably past the dark side of the moon. The consummate pragmatist, Carol knew what she had to do. After a brief powwow with Tyreese, Carol led a tearful Lizzie out Lennie style to look at the flowers and raised her gun as the show cut to Tyreeses paralytic face. For a nightcap, Carol finally copped to killing Karen to prevent the Camus inspired plague from infecting the whole prison, sliding her gun over to Tyreese as she spoke. But instead of going hammer time on a gaggle of zombies, or taking Carol up on the offer to fall on her sword, Tyreese did the most surprising thing of all He forgave her. Is Carol the Best Character on the The Walking DeadYes. Why One, Carol actually cares about surviving. Where others speechify and agonize cough Rick Grimes coughCarol just does. Yet no matter how many humans she throws on the barbie, Carols humanity never quite ashes up. We see the toll she carries for every gruesome act. The shows and graphic novels ostensible theme is the levels to which people will sink when pure survival is the name of the game. Too often, however, the show explores this idea through pseudo Shakespearean soliloquies. With Carol, the drama and tension comes from watching her will herself to do the unspeakable despite her humanity. Thats much more relatable than someone whining about how its a different world, especially because the zombie apocalypse isnt fundamentally different we all have to focus on survival flesh eating corpses just make it all a little more immediate for those in The Walking Dead universe.