This results in both Maggie and Carol having their gags removed. Once Paula’s team returns to the room where Carol and Maggie are being held, Carol starts with her scared, fragile housewife routine and starts hyperventilating. I cannot say enough good things about Melissa McBride’s performance in this episode. Once in custody and at one of the Savior’s satellite locations, Carol quickly went to work, using a rosary to cut away at the tape around her wrists. Although I had no idea if or how the two would escape, I never doubted that they were both going to go down fighting, if necessary. The argument between the Carol and Maggie is cut short when Paula’s group arrives and takes them captive.
I can understand how those repeated close calls would strengthen her resolve to always be at her husband’s side. I had to remind myself that while Glenn was hiding under a dumpster and avoiding death, Maggie was back at the Alexandria Safe Zone (“ASZ”) worried about whether she would ever see him again. In all fairness to Maggie, I can understand why she would insist on joining the group as: (1) the person who closed the deal with Gregory and (2) a wife who has been separated from her husband more times than I can count now. The episode opened with the argument between Carol and Maggie, in which Carol told Maggie that she is not supposed to be the person accompanying the group on dangerous missions in which it is all but certain they will have to kill. As alluded to in last week’s episode, Carol still has a conscience and the hard choices she’s made for the greater good of the group have not left her without inner conflict. One thing was clear by the episode’s end, Carol may be pragmatic, but it has not caused her to lose the core of who she is as a person. I’m also not going to complain about an episode that puts strong, self-assured women at the forefront. This week’s episode was not subtle in its effort to draw the parallels between Carol/Paula and Maggie/Michelle, which was fine by me because it helped further the shifts we are seeing in Carol and Maggie during the second half of the season. The writers have ventured away from the time manipulations and in telling a more linear storyline, we’ve gotten an excellent balance of action, suspense, tension and character development. Seriously, the second half of this season has been one of the strongest group of episodes throughout the entire course of the series. īecause they’re on a roll! Sorry, couldn’t resist. On to this week’s episode, “The Same Boat.”Ĭall The Walking Dead Writers Hot Butter. We were left with an unsettling cliffhanger at the episode’s end, as we discovered that there were more Saviors and they had captured Maggie and Carol.
The episode also featured interesting character beats for Glenn, who made his first human kill, and for Carol, whose list of human kills suggested that the character was starting to take stock of the person she’d become over the last few years. As Michonne aptly observed at the end of the well-executed attack, it was still not clear if they had taken out Negan. The group made good on their deal with the Hilltop by attacking the Saviors and saving the Hilltop resident being held hostage.
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