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Critic Consensus: With "Inmates," The Walking Dead continues to jump between separate bands of survivors, maintaining solid tension in the process.
Episode Info
Cast
as Rick Grimes
as Daryl Dixon
as Glenn
as Maggie Greene
as Carl Grimes
as Michonne
as Carol
as Hershel Greene
as The Governor
as Beth Greene
as Sasha
as Tyreese
as Morgan Jones
as Aaron
as Jessie Anderson
as Spencer Monroe
Inmates Photos
Critic reviews for Inmates
After cruelly toying with my patience last week, The Walking Dead pulled itself together enough to tantalize me into believing that the old girl may have some new zombie-feeding tricks left up her sleeve.
OF COURSE Carol would find Tyreese first - Tyreese, whose girlfriend she killed in cold blood for the greater good to stop the spread of the super flu throughout the prison. This adds some delicious tension to this group.
The Walking Dead's nihilistic and relentlessly bleak worldview works like gangbusters in a black and white comic book, but is decidedly less entertaining on a basic cable drama.
We can't help feeling like the episode itself buckles a bit under the weight of so much story. If nothing else, we've got more than a few tantalizing teases to chew on for a week.
Told out of chronological order, the episode allowed viewers to see how seemingly minute details in one storyline were actually major developments in others. It was ambitious, like "After" was, and a welcome way to spice up the series.
I did find that the structure of the episode was unique... in that the timeline wasn't linear and often certain camera shots were replicated between groups to illustrate the crossing of paths at different times.
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