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The Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 11

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Aired Sunday 9:00 PM Feb 23, 2014 on AMC

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AIRED: 2/23/14

The survivors have journeyed into the world beyond the prison and have found it is populated with various people. Carl and Michonne search the neighborhood and discover tragedy while Rick encounters scavengers.

A trio of survivors have found Glenn and Tara, and are on a mission to save the world.

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7.0

By thefanof, Mar 03, 2014

Way too much Michonne here, and an odd transformation with her trying to be a comedy character. The rest of the episode was good though, and I am curious to see what the "reason" for the zombie apocalypse ends up being, if we ever do find out.
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By ionee24, Mar 01, 2014

While Carol & Judith take on a journey of their own, Rick & Carl do their best to overcome their absence by playing house with Michonne. It doesn't go so well. The truth is, Rick can't be a parent and a best friend any more than Michonne can be a best friend and a parent, so she takes upon herself to tell the story of her son, hoping that Carl could move on from the loss of his baby sister.

Trying to overcome a loss of his own, Glenn & Tara are driven further away by the three characters they met last episode, Abraham & Rosita guarding something as precious as Eugene's mind. A mind that might just hold the cure for the zombie outbreak . Their one goeal: to can raise an army that could help him get to into the City.moreless
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By Neksmater, Feb 28, 2014

The third episode return of the Walking Dead provided another split focus lens as we saw more of Michonne, Rick, and Carl and more of Glen and Tara but none of the others. We also got to see more of Abraham Ford and his other comrades. Starting in the what worked department, let's start with discussing how effective the tension was in the home invasion-style sequence involving Rick sweating bullets under his bed while other survivors are raiding the house for supplies. There were parts that stretched such as when someone kills someone over a bed (I know this is supposed to be a metaphor for the deterioration of the human condition after the fall of civilization but how on the nose is that?) Killing someone over a place to sleep is just childish and no doubt would cause some strife among the remaining raiders since that's one less person breathing in the world to help defend against walkers. Rick's escape was well shot and executed really well so hats off to cinematographer and production designers for that bit. The other thing that borrowed me was why the guy he strangles to death in the bathroom was sitting on the toilet with his pants up? He wasn't going Number 2 or even reading, he was waiting to be in the wrong place at the wrong time to get murdered so that Rick didn't get away clean (another sloppy bit writers). Michonne and Carl's scenes fell flat this week a bit too as she tries to make friends with him in the wake of his loss of Judith but she can't break through. Moments of it worked but stuff like the cheese whiz put it into too campy and contrived for me to believe that the character would actually do that. But now they don't have a house anymore and they're on the tracks to the united shelter all of the ensemble seem to all conveniently gravitate toward. In the Glen area of the map apparently Dr. Mullet (Abraham's travel companion) knows what caused the outbreak and Abe and Rosita (other companion who inexplicably wears incredibly short shorts for no conceivable reason) are trying to get him to Washington. While Glen insists he go back to the bus to find Maggie and Abe tries to get him to stay to help "save humanity" and all that boring jazz (this reveal should've come off as great and game changing but instead felt barely relevant to what was happening). Then walkers come and Mullet puts too many bullets in the gas tank which leads them no choice but to follow Glen to the bus and find transportation to Washington from there. We got a sense of who Mullet is in his dialogue but Rosita is just sort of there at this point. You'd think they would give her a few lines to explain why she's there beyond Tara (who we barely know saying about Rosita) "she'd follow you anywhere because she loves you!" You doubt the truthfulness of it. But nope. It's T-Dog syndrome where the less you know the better, even if the underdeveloped female character attractively wears short shorts and dual wields pistols. But beyond my annoyances at the sloppy writing and bland characterization the action as always remains solid and is something that I've always enjoyed on the show. I just hope we can flesh out these newbies a bit more than we have in the episode we just got because it just reeks of the cast getting way too big yet again.moreless
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By AriSky, Feb 26, 2014

So pretty much all that happened in this episode was BAM dropping the plot for the rest of the season (reaching this doctor with the cure), even though Glen wants nothing to do with it and someone managed to shoot a hole in a gas tank without causing it to combust. And Rick hid under the bed. Says a lot about how his character's progressed. It was nice to see Michonne connect with Carl at least, I guess. Not terribly impressed overall.moreless
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By sremnes, Feb 25, 2014

When are we going to see some progress on this show, some answers. It seems its moving in slow motion. Next weeks episode is called Still, give me a break.
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Andrew Lincoln	Rick Grimes
Steven Yeun	Glenn Rhee
Chandler Riggs	Carl Grimes
Danai Jekesai Gurira	Michonne

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Michael Cudlitz	Sgt. Abraham Ford	Guest Star
Josh McDermitt	Dr. Eugene Porter	Guest Star
Christian Serratos	Rosita Espinosa	Guest Star
Alanna Masterson	Tara Chambler	Recurring Role

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- The weapon Rick took from the guy he killed was a 9mm Uzi.
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- There were 16 confirmed Walker deaths in this episode.
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- Original International Airdates:
  Finland: February 24, 2014 on Fox
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- Although credited, Norman Reedus (Daryl Dixon), Lauren Cohan (Maggie Greene), Melissa McBride (Carol Peletier), Emily Kinney (Beth Greene), Chad L. Coleman (Tyreese), Sonequa Martin Green (Sasha) & Lawrence Gilliard, Jr. (Bob Stookey) do not appear in this episode.
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