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The Walking Dead – Season 1, Episode 5 Wildfire

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Rick leads the group to the CDC hoping to cure an infected Jim, who must make a terrible life-and-death decision.
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The Walking Dead — Season 1, Episode 5

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With "Wildfire," The Walking Dead continues to prove it isn't your average horror story, with a focus on three-dimensional characters in a well-rounded drama.

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Shane Walsh

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Logan Hill New York Magazine/Vulture 07/07/2015
This episode delivers some of the series' best moments yet. Go to Full Review James Poniewozik TIME Magazine 07/07/2015
The surface similarities [to Lost] do make me hope that, given more hours to tell its story, The Walking Dead will be able to develop characters to match its already deeply absorbing plot. Go to Full Review Alan Sepinwall HitFix 06/12/2015
Even more than last week's episode, "Wildfire" has me thinking I might want to stick with The Walking Dead for a good while... And it was two sequences - one near the beginning, and one near the end - that have me firmly on the hook. Go to Full Review Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez Tom & Lorenzo 06/06/2018
Shane wants protection from the problem, and that's absolutely understandable, but Rick wants to solve the problem. Go to Full Review Ciara Monya TV Equals 07/07/2015
It's still nowhere near great, and the characters aren't half as interesting as the characters on other television shows. Go to Full Review Josh Jackson Paste Magazine 06/12/2015
8.1/10
"Wildfire," the fifth episode of AMC's The Walking Dead spends most of its first half doing something that no zombie movie has ever had time for-mourning. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

Episode Info

Synopsis Rick leads the group to the CDC hoping to cure an infected Jim, who must make a terrible life-and-death decision.
Director
Ernest R. Dickerson
Executive Producer
Frank Darabont, Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, David Alpert
Screenwriter
Glen Mazzara
Network
AMC
Rating
TV-MA
Genre
Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Original Language
English
Release Date
Nov 28, 2010
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