The Walking Dead: Killer Within (2012)
Season 3, Episode 4
8/10
We should visit Augusta
28 October 2021
Andrea and Michonne have different outlooks on Woodbury, whilst events take a turn for the dramatic in the prison.

This is an incredibly loud and dramatic episode that almost left my girlfriend with PTSD.

The plot is good as it splits time between the slow burning development in Woodbury and the explosive events involving Rick and his survivor group.

I enjoyed the character development involving the Governor and everything it shows with his character seems to have a strong sense of foreboding. The writers are portraying his ability to manipulate people quite well.

There is not much I can say about the prison scenes without major spoilers. It safe to say that it is drama and horror of the highest intensity and makes me wonder what else could be portrayed as going wrong in a single episode. It's not a criticism, all the scenes are incredibly well made, but for me personally there is only so much continual pain and hysteria I can be presented with before it gets so harrowing that I start to laugh. My girlfriend didn't laugh mind. I think she nearly threw up at one point.

It feels to me like a couple of situations involving certain characters are a bit contrived because of how they were written in previous episodes. I cannot elaborate without spoiling.

Fair play to Andrew Lincoln, the range of emotion he has to go through in these episodes must leave him drained after a day's filming. All performances are as strong as ever, particularly Sarah Wayne Callies, IronE Singleton, and Lauren Cohan.

Visually it is brutally realistic in a number of scenes and credit to the effects department for how they keep outdoing themselves every time.
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