The Walking Dead (TV Series) Go Getters (2016) User Reviews

Rick's Numbness and Carl's Attitude

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 21 November 2016]

Rick leaves Alexandria to scavenge for Negan and the Saviors. Meanwhile Maggie is recovered by Dr. Carson that asks her to stay with Sasha in Hilltop to rest and be monitored by him. However Gregory protests and asks them to leave the compound on the next morning despite the protests of Jesus. During the night, the Saviors open the gates of Hilltop and leave a locked car with a high volume music to attract the walkers and Sacha, Maggie and Jesus save the residents. Enid decides to leave Alexandria to visit Maggie and she is followed by Carl that has a secret agenda. When they arrive at Hilltop, the Saviors are looting the place. What will Carl do?

"Go Getters" is an episode that shows how Rick is not balanced again. This character changed a lot from the previous Seasons and it is hard to accept his numbness towards Negan and the Saviors inclusive delivering the arsenal that could protect the Alexandrians. Carl was submitted to the same experience of witnessing the death of Abraham and Glenn and has a totally different behavior. Maggie and Sacha are still the warriors from the previous Seasons. Gregory shows that he is an insidious man that can not be trusted while Jesus is brave and certainly will be an important character in this Season. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Go Getters"

Rehash of Last Week

[ThomasDrufke · 7/10 · 20 November 2016]

Every episode this season has had its own identity and approach, and that's helped keep this season fresh and one of the best so far. 'Go Getters' certainly had a different identity than the past few weeks, but unfortunately it was the first episode this season that felt filler.

It's been 4 episodes since we last saw Sasha and Maggie, so it's long overdue. It's also way past time we have seen the Hilltop community, and their annoyingly ignorant leader, Gregory. I'm happy Jesus was there to brighten up these scenes, because I just can't stand Gregory and his approach to this apocalyptic world. I didn't expect Maggie to do anything but shut him down, and I'm glad to see her start to make progress towards her inevitable leadership role at Hilltop.

We also had a legit zombie conflict at Hilltop when the Saviors send a small herd in for good fun. This gave Jesus, Sasha, and even Maggie a chance for some solid zombie kills. Can you get any better than pregnant Maggie driving a tractor over zombies? With that said, once Simon came along and interrupted the party the episode came to a complete halt. I never once believed that he was going to find Maggie and Sasha, so those scenes just felt useless to me. We've already watched Negan do the same exact thing last week to Alexandria, was there a need to have Simon do it too? Plus, if you're going to have someone from Negan's crew come in spitting dialogue right out of Negan's vocabulary, why not just have Negan himself do it?

I guess the defense here would be that we needed to see members of Negan's crew doing something horrible without him, so that we believe they won't turn on him when the time comes. There wasn't a ton else going on besides Carl and Enid's rollerblading date to Hilltop. I can't say I care at all about this storyline, but at least Carl going to The Sanctuary with Jesus sounds intriguing, right? I enjoyed the closure we got from Sasha & Maggie, and the steps she's taking to become the leader. But there wasn't a ton else this episode had going for it.

+Maggie staying strong

+Jesus & Carl potential

-re-hash of last week's visit from Saviors

-Uneventful for the most part

7.0/10

Go Getters - Slow Build.

[matthewpitts5 · 6/10 · 19 March 2017]

The 5th episode of Season 7 continues the slow build, but I feel it's leading up to an explosive second half to the season.

This episode features us catching up with the Hilltop Community with the new additions of Maggie & Sasha. Gregory the coward leader wants them gone so the Saviours won't give them a hard time, so it's up to (The Awesome) Paul 'Jesus' Rovio to step up, in his first appearance this season. Simon and the Saviours pay a visit. And Carl and Enid are on route to the colony, the latter two complete with shocking dialogue, acting and scenes these two have already shared in season's past.

Slow episode and the Simon intrusion was a repeat of last episode, but Sasha, Maggie & Paul Rovio were a welcome sight. Carl and Enid are an utter snooze fest however.

I enjoyed it!

[nomis94 · 27 November 2016]

Can't believe this episode has a rating of 7.4! It was amazing and thrilling as well. I loved the character moments, especially Maggie stepping up! Sasha was badass, too. And Enid has developed so well... She is very likable character! The walker-car-tractor-scene was badass and amazing! I loved the shots with Paul kicking walkers and Sasha stabbing the hell out of them. Maggie was the queen in this episode. She is a farmer's daughter - she knows how to handle things! :D This episode had everything you need: Nice dialogue, touching moments, action here and there, character development, a riveting fight against a herd of walkers... I enjoyed it.

"Go Getters" is a poignant and emotional episode that focuses on Maggie and Sasha as they try to find their place in the Hilltop community

[fernandoschiavi · 6/10 · 19 March 2024]

Sasha has managed to get Maggie to the Hilltop, where she is being treated by Dr. Harlan Carson. Gregory is angry that her group not only failed to kill the Saviors, but potentially made things worse.

That night, the front gate has been opened, fires are blazing, and music blares from a car, attracting Walkers. Maggie and Sasha rally the Hilltop to help put a stop to it. The next day, Simon arrives with the Saviors. He tells the Hilltop people that he arranged the small walker invasion as a lesson-punishment for the group. Simon also lets Gregory know he is now in charge of the sector, having gained the position due to the massacre at the Satellite outpost.

A cowardly Gregory attempts to hand over Maggie and Sasha. He leads the Saviors to a closet where he expects to find the women. Instead, the closet holds nothing but a case of Scotch that he had set aside for himself. Simon sees the Scotch as a gesture of good will, and takes it with him when he leaves. Jesus then explains to Gregory in no uncertain terms that Maggie and Sasha are welcome to stay, whether he likes it or not.

Carl and Enid share their views on the difficult situation at Alexandria. Carl wants vengeance against the Saviors for killing Glenn and Abraham. Enid thinks it isn't a good idea to go after Negan alone. Later, Enid goes to the Hilltop to help Maggie. Carl, meanwhile, follows Jesus on a clandestine trip to the Sanctuary.

"Go Getters" is a poignant and emotional episode that focuses on Maggie and Sasha as they try to find their place in the Hilltop community. The episode is notable for its exploration of grief and loss, as Maggie mourns the death of her husband, Glenn, while also grappling with the challenges of pregnancy. The episode also explores themes of resilience and determination, as Maggie and Sasha refuse to be defined by their losses and instead choose to forge ahead with hope for the future.

One of the most memorable scenes in the episode is when Maggie stands up to Gregory, the leader of the Hilltop, and asserts her authority and strength. This moment is a turning point for Maggie, as she begins to embrace her role as a leader and a survivor. The episode also explores the growing bond between Maggie and Sasha, as they support each other through their grief and find solace in their shared experiences.

The episode is also notable for its exploration of the Hilltop community and its internal politics, particularly the tensions between Gregory and Jesus as they vie for control. Gregory's cowardice and self-preservation instincts are contrasted with Jesus' altruism and desire to do what is best for the community, highlighting the complexities of leadership in this new world.

Episode 5

[benyaminshakeri-04856 · 7/10 · 20 January 2024]

4 episodes have passed since the terrible events of the first episode and we are still in the time of despair! And this is really unfortunate, 4 episodes means 4 weeks, 4 weeks that the progress of the story is zero!

It's been 4 weeks that I've seen the disappointment of the characters in the series and I don't know why the series has dropped so much.

But after seeing the end of this episode, I was a little hopeful that the next episode could be faster and more interesting, of course, if the creators don't dedicate the entire next episode to Morgan and Carol...!

In the end, congratulations should be given to the actor who played the role of Gregor because he really did a brilliant performance.

I give this episode a 7.

Decent Episode!

[julian1999-881-583516 · 9/10 · 22 November 2016]

I don't get why this episode is getting so low score? Won't go in to spoiler territory that much for people who maybe hasn't it yet. For starters this episode is a build up episode for what will come. We get to see Carl with much needed screen time and for me Chandler Riggs did an amazing job this episode. So Carl and Enid goes to The Hilltop because Enid wanted to see Maggie and Carl wanted to look after Enid. Meanwhile we get too see Maggie and Sasha after the events from the first episode which I believe is 3 days after. Maggie, Sasha and Jesus gets in a dispute with Hilltop leader Gregory for what to do with the Alexandrians visiting The Hilltop. Trouble runs in to the colony when the Saviour Simon and his crew makes a visit and spills the beans too Gregory about what happened after they (the Alexandrians) took out the saviours outpost. Simon makes it clear in a tensfull way that he is now "Negan" over The Hilltop. They now "own" the colony and can do whatever they want) I liked this episode very much because we get too see both build up and action. Characters and actors who stand out this episode is: Carl (Chandler Riggs), Maggie (Lauren Cohan), Gregory (Xandler Bekeley) and Simon (Steven Ogg). Don't be disappointed if you think that this is a slow season! Were only 5 episodes in and we will be rewarded!!!

Fighting amidst grief

[TheLittleSongbird · 5/10 · 30 November 2020]

Liked but not loved the first three episodes, with a lot of fine things but also some big problems that were pretty much similar in all three, so actually Season 7 did start off with good potential but quite quickly lost it. "Service" was a big disappointment and was the episode where Season 7 began to stumble and kept stumbling, found it a dull and bland episode with too much talk and far too much of a weakly written Negan.

"Go Getters" is for me a better faring episode than "Service", there is actually signs of characters and story progressing (even if not a massive amount) and didn't have the problem of having Negan and his overuse unbalancing everything like that episode did. It is not near as good as the first three Season 7 episodes though and would call it one of the middling, meaning not one of the best or worst of the season, ones. Not awful, less than brilliant and more uneven.

There are certainly good things. It's well made visually, made with a lot of style and atmosphere without being gimmicky or trying too hard. Some of the music fits nicely, but uncharacteristically for this point of 'The Walking Dead' it left a mixed impression on me. There are moments of tension, everything with the walkers and how they're defeated (especially the tractor one) were immensely satisfying and much more so than what should really have been the source of the episode's tension.

Absolutely loved the female character writing, particularly great was Maggie being the most interesting she was in a while. Really liked the chemistry between her and Sasha , especially when at the graves. Lauren Cohan and Sonequa Martin-Green do a great job here.

Did feel that the male character writing was less good, with only Gregory and Jesus, both nicely acted, being interesting. Didn't see much point to Rick, as great a character he is, being here as he has little to do and what there is does such a compelling character no favours, while Carl didn't have much presence and was annoying. Steven Ogg does not fare badly as Simon, but didn't think still that he was menacing enough.

Regarding the story there were tense moments and there is progression, but it is mostly fairly dull and feels very padded from being narratively quite thin. The dialogue is not as long-winded as in the previous Season 7 episodes (yes, did think this aspect was a weak link in the first three too), but it does lack tautness and has moments of unintentional laughter. Did like that there were attempts at glimmers of hope, after such heavy-going previous episodes to the season, but the more uplifting moments feel very forced and that is including the more hopeful-sounding music too. "Go Getters" does lose momentum in the second half, which lacks the necessary tension. The Simon encounter suffers from being very derivative and it was just odd having the feeling that the way Simon is written was like Negan had possessed his body at that point or that they had had body swaps or something.

Summarising, not bad but uneven. 5/10

When you're hooked, they will take advantage

[Mikelikesnotlikes · 5/10 · 22 November 2016]

I've been defending some of the less exciting episodes of this and past seasons in the belief that all parts will eventually make a better whole. But this episode is pushing my tolerance. I'm starting to buy into the belief that this commercialised cash cow is being blatantly milked for all its worth.

I suppose its merely human nature to make the most of what you've got. Knowing 'they' have hooked a large enough audience 'they' now feel that it's OK to shove a few low budget filler episodes into each season. And the majority of hardcore fans, like myself, will begrudgingly accept this and continue watching.

I'm going to skip the next few episodes and bank them up for binge watching to relieve the current anticipation/subsequent disappointment cycle that I think will become a hallmark of this season.

If you miss this episode I don't think you will have missed much at all, and that's just not right.

The boring dead

[Robin_clarke41 · 1/10 · 21 November 2016]

It just keeps getting worse and worse. I still think the last good episode was when Rick had to face the governor. It's starting to look like some college kids expressionist experiment. Strange unfitting music, long drawn out irrelevant scenes, mind numbingly boring dialogue and lots and lots of awkward silences. Why do I force myself to watch this drivel? I do so because of the great moments the show has had in the past. I just can't believe how BADLY written the recent episodes have been though. They are painful to watch. It's not clever, artistic or different it's just rubbish. I would compare it with Eastenders a show now on par with this nonsense. Will it ever be good again? Is there any hope for it?

It's getting impossible to watch the cartoonish baddies

[gedikreverdi · 19 October 2021]

Enid and Carl are walking to Hilltop to see Maggie. Maggie and Sasha are there but Gregory the man in charge wants them to go because saviors could be mad. Besides Rick told Negan Maggie is dead. Jesus and Maggie and Sasha doesn't want Gregory to keep being the leader. Carl and Jesus are going in a truck to where Negan lives.

5.4/10

[CillianMurphyEnthusiast · 5/10 · 30 September 2023]

Terrible, mostly pointless episode. At the start of the episode Maggie is in a trailer in Hilltop recovering. In the very next scene we see Sasha outside of the trailer. Why is she here? To grieve? That's what everybody else at Alexandria is doing, but they're looking for supplies for Negan instead of taking the day off. She's not pregnant like Maggie. I got to start actually reviewing this episode instead of talking about why Sasha is a b****. Sasha shows Maggie where she burried Abraham and Glenn. Gregory shows up and is worried about The Saviors finding out about the deal so he tells them to leave. There is some of the worst dialogue from this scene, mainly from Sasha. Back at Alexandria, Enid climbs over the gates for the 10th time now but she finally has a reason. She is going to see Maggie. She encounters a walker but Coral shows up in a car and shows off his driving skills he got from his mom and kills it. This scene was both pointless and did nothing with their characters. Oh, and we're back at Hilltop where there is music playing in the middle of the night so Maggie and Sasha go to investigate it, and OH NO! There are fires outside and walkers are getting through the open gates. Why does this happen. Because the writers had to throw in some poorly directed repetitive action of *knife, enter, walker, skull* to keep the twd fans hard. The pregnant woman is the only one who is actually useful and drives a tractor over the car playing the music. And we're back with Coral and Enid again and this time they're talking about how they want to kill Negan. And we're back at Hilltop where Gregory is being an A*****e like usual before The Saviors arrive and Maggie and Sasha hide in a closet. And we're back with Coral and Enid again. Coral finds 2 pairs of roller blades and they start bonding while using them. Holy crap. Something that's actually semi-important to the plot. And, were back at Hilltop where Simon and The Saviors enter that one building that no one remembers the name. You remember Simon right? The guy with the pen? No, you don't because it's been like 5 episodes since we last saw him. There's Dwight, Simon, Jared, just have one side Savior. Coral and Enid arrive just as The Saviors are leaving. They talk a bit and then have their first kiss. At the end of the episode, as The Saviors leave, Jesus hops into the back of a truck hoping to find out where they live and he sees Coral in the truck. The worst part of the episode is that you can't skip it because there is two scenes that you need to see.

Stuff actually happens...

[TheDonaldofDoom · 27 November 2016]

You could say that this is the most eventful episode since that awful season premiere, but that's not saying much. In defence of this season, each episode so far has explored a particular theme and tone, with no episode being the same. There was the premiere, which used 45 minutes to show a guy beating up a couple of people with a baseball bat. There was "The Cell", which had a slow, dark tone in which Daryl is tormented. There was "Service", a sombre episode simply about Negan taking Alexandria's supplies. But that's been exactly the problem with this season- each episode is nothing more than an idea, unnecessarily dragged out for 45 minutes.

By comparison, "Go Getters" is better than the majority of this season so far, but it's symptomatic of the same core problem. Something actually happens, offering hope for game-changing events further down the line, but it still drags out its scenes for no good reason.

There's a lot to like. Finally we see the return of Jesus, a character we saw too little of last season. He sticks up for Maggie and Sasha in front of Gregory, a character we're clearly intended to despite almost as much as the Savior leader. The walker infiltration is awesome, seeing Maggie run over a car with a tractor as a solution is certainly something I'd never have expected to see happen.

But you can't ignore that this episode is poor in other areas. There's almost no mention of Glenn, even though this is the first episode since the season premiere that features Maggie. I'm not asking for an entire episode to be taken up by Maggie crying, but there are some pointless, meaningless scenes whose screen-time could have instead provided closure for Glenn's death. One of these pointless scenes is when the Saviors come to Hilltop to collect supplies. It's totally unnecessary and pointless. We have already had the new hierarchy repeatedly drummed into our heads so much that we hardly need ANOTHER dragged out scene in which Saviors take supplies. To its credit, Gregory trying to act as if he's buddies with the Savior leader is amusing, but it's not enough of an excuse to drag on the scene for so long. And there's no way the Saviors would have found Sasha and Maggie in the closet at this point in the story, so there wasn't much tension, either.

It also felt like because this season has been so grim and heavy so far, that the creators felt they needed to shoehorn in some corny "uplifting" scenes. The worst bit is seeing Carl and Enid skate to a horrifyingly bad electronic soundtrack, but the prayer scene at the end is pretty bad as well.

Overall, I'm glad that at least this episode pushes the story on a little bit, mainly with Jesus and Carl in the back of the Savior truck at the end.