Review of Self Help

The Walking Dead: Self Help (2014)
Season 5, Episode 5
2/10
By far the worst episode of the season. Maybe the series.
10 November 2014
Warning: Spoilers
This was an awful episode, which I could barely make it through. I Was worried last week that Beth wouldn't be able to carry her own episode, but honestly that episode was 10 times better than this. I already didn't like any of these characters going in, with the exception of Glenn and Maggie, and this episode just reaffirmed those feeling.

Eugene and Abraham are just so stereotypical. They tried to act like Eugene's a deep character and like the audience is going to care about his secrets, and want to better understand him, but me and everyone else I know who watches this just can't wait for his scenes to finally end. His acting is terrible, but I can't really put all the blame on the actor because there really isn't much he could do to compensation for the terrible writing he gets. There's just no real depth there. It's really the same problem with Abraham. He's just like a Duke Nukem-esque video game character. They tried to give his some depth by showing us glimpses of his back-story but it really didn't do much for me. I was thinking they would show what made him how he is, but instead they just showed me a tragedy from his past which didn't really explain anything since at the start of the flashback he was already really violent and seemingly the same guy, so it just didn't really seem to fit.

I'm just happy it's finally over, and I really hope there are no more episodes completely dedicated to that group. They're tolerable in brief moments but they really just can't carry an entire episode alone. Especially when Glenn and Maggie are barely used.
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