Review of Spend

The Walking Dead: Spend (2015)
Season 5, Episode 14
8/10
Brutal Episode
2 April 2015
Warning: Spoilers
After trudging along as the dullest season of AMC's The Walking Dead, things finally picked up in this episode. Including what may be one of the most brutal deaths ever on the show.

Plot In A Paragraph: Eugene is forced to go on a run with Glenn, Noah, Tara, Aiden and Nicholas, whilst Abraham steps up to save the day at a construction site, Carol discovers a secret and someone betrays the group.

*****Spoilers Ahead****

While out working on the wall, Tobin was ready to let one of his workers die before Abraham stepped in to save the day. But that was just about the only positive thing that happened (thanks to Tobin's gracious gesture of ceding power after the incident). Elsewhere, Carol suspected Pete of beating Jesse and Sam, and told Rick "You're going to have to kill him." Meanwhile,

in the night's most shocking development, both Noah and Aiden died after cowardly Nicholas took off to save his own skin rather than help to make sure they all made it out alive while out on a run. (First he ran away rather than help Glenn and Niah help Aiden, then he left Glenn and Noah trapped in a revolving door surrounded by zombies, and THEN he attempted to flee in the van—leaving them and Eugene behind, before Glenn caught up and decked the scaredy cat.) Man, Its been a while since a character annoyed me as much as he does!!

But there is not just one annoying character!! There is two!! Father Gabriel came to Deanna and warned her that "you made a mistake letting in the others….Rick, his group, they're not good people. They've done things. They've done unspeakable things…. They can't be trusted. They're dangerous…. The day will come will they will put their own lives before yours." Who sucks more: Nicholas or Gabriel??

All that's left is to see what develops in the final two episodes, especially with the Glenn- Nicholas situation. Will they both return to Alexandria with two completely different stories? How will Deanna react to the death of her son, and whom will she blame?

Aiden's character did a complete 360 and was a decent guy. His death may have been brutal, and talked about more, were it not for poor Noah The haunting image of Him being literally ripped apart by a pack of zombies in a revolving door—while Glenn watched helplessly from a mere foot away—has to be one of the most brutal deaths in Walking Dead history, right up there with Sophia at the barn, Hershel's beheading and when Carol took Lizzie to look at the flowers.
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