Name a favorite episode of TWD on AMC...and why
One of my favorites is Nebraska.....Rick and Glenn go after Herschel and have a heart to heart, listening to a man who is dealing with the fact he was wrong about the nature of the apocalypse. Rick talks him back from his myopia....just then two new comers enter the bar.
They share the fact that Fort Benning fell....then they start to ask questions about the group.
It is this episode where you get a sense of Rock's cold streak. Even before he kills them...you could see that he saw them for what they were...and he had already decided that they would die.
The reason this is one of my favorite episodes is the contrast.....Rick can be gentle...sometimes to a fault. His loyalty to those he respects is total. But he is very human and relatable. This is nice Rick.
But the episode shows us another Rick...this is a cold calculated man...this is the man that kept the group alive between season two and three. Those two men were a threat to his group and he acted. It is the same Rick that killed Shane.
It is how he balances these aspects of himself that makes him compelling. And it is his humanity that helps TWD differentiate itself from the usual zombie stories out there.
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The Grove is my favorite episode.
I liked it because it did a decent job developing all the characters in it. And also because Lizzie died in that episode.
Look at the flowers Lizzie....great episode.
It's a big toss between Better Angels & What's Happened and What's Going On. 2 of my favorite characters died in both episodes but both were extremely well done!
The Grove (4x14), Clear (3x12), Too Far Gone (4x08), No Way Out (6x09), and A (4x16) come to my mind immediately but there are others from s1 and from s5 that I'm probably missing haha. Love a good badass!Carol ep and I totally forgot the name of the episode where Rick and Michonne get together but that's a good one too
Either Clear, The Grove, or No Way Out. Clear had some great performances by Andrew Lincoln and Lennie James, it's writing was incredibly focused (which has been something TWD has always struggled with), and this was the episode where Michonne's character really started to grow on me. The Grove was an emotional and shocking episode, it was this episode that made me fall in love with Carol and established her as my favorite character on the show, and that final scene between Carol and Tyreese has some of the best acting on the show, especially by Chad Coleman. No Way Out is simply an action packed episode that does the comics justice, the editing and direction, especially when they start clearing out the walker herd inside Alexandria, is top notch.
I don't know. I have a favorite of each season, but I don't know if I have a favorite overall.
My favorite episode of Season 5 was What Happened and What's Going On. This was a more artistic episode (in both its cinematography and its writing) and it gave Tyreese, who was one of my favorite characters at the time, a very well-handled farewell instead of just killing him off for the sake of shock value.
My favorite episode of Season 6 was Here's Not Here. I've always been a sucker for more contained episodes, but this episode also boasted a well-paced and always interesting script, some fantastic performances from Lennie James and John Carol Lynch, some strong chemistry between Morgan and Eastman, and it filled in the gaps of what happened to Morgan after we last saw him and why he's gone from a suicidal sociopath into a calm and respectable pacifist.
All time favorite is 4x08: "Too Far Gone" without a doubt. It left me an emotional wreck.
Runner-up is 6x09: "No Way Out". I loved the adaptation, but I expected a bit more with Jessie's hand scene.
Honorable mentions: 1x01: "Days Gone Bye". 2x07: "Pretty Much Dead Already". 3x04: "Killer Within". 4x14: "The Grove". 5x01: "No Sanctuary". 5x03: "Four Walls and a Roof". 6x11: "Knots Untie".
I hope "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be" becomes a favorite, too. (Am I the only one who thinks "Something to Fear" would've been a perfect title instead of the one we got?)