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The Walking Dead – Season 1, Episode 2 Guts

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The Walking Dead – Season 1, Episode 2

Guts

Aired Nov 7, 2010

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Rick unknowingly causes a group of survivors to be trapped by walkers; Rick must confront an enemy more dangerous than the undead.

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"Guts" finds The Walking Dead settling into a gory groove and delivering thrilling action, even when some of its character development feels cliched.

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James Poniewozik

TIME Magazine

05/28/2015

I enjoyed "Guts" on a pure thrill level, and I can see it as a necessary episode in terms of proving the scale of action that Frank Darabont intends to deliver on a weekly cable-TV budget.

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Alan Sepinwall

HitFix

05/06/2015

Of the three Walking Dead episodes I've seen, "Guts" was the most disappointing. It's not that it's bad, but that it's familiar.

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Michelle Kung

Wall Street Journal

05/04/2015

'Guts' is right. The Walking Dead is not a show for the squeamish, as demonstrated by the blood and intestines on display on the zombie drama's second episode.

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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez

Tom & Lorenzo

06/08/2018

We couldn't help but kind of admire the commitment to being truly horrifying. And yet, as horrifying as the gore was - and it was definitely pushing the boundaries of basic cable.

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Josh Jackson

Paste Magazine

05/06/2015

8.4/10

"Guts," the second episode of AMC's new zombie series, The Walking Dead, is both faster-paced and, as the title hints, gorier, than the premiere. And with about twice as many characters as episode one, we don't have time to really get to know any of them.

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Eric Goldman

IGN Movies

05/04/2015

7/10

Getting back to the good stuff, this episode was called "Guts," and man did it deliver on that front.

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Synopsis

Rick unknowingly causes a group of survivors to be trapped by walkers; Rick must confront an enemy more dangerous than the undead.

Director: Michelle MacLaren
Executive Producer: Frank Darabont, Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, David Alpert
Screenwriter: Frank Darabont
Network: AMC
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date: Nov 7, 2010

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