"Thank You" is well written, character-driven, intense and shocking, all the while keeping the same Walking Dead antics. It delivers us a tense ride of emotion, hardship and a grim environment that truly makes us feel like everything might come falling down for the group.
First of, let me delve in to the character aspect of the episode. These characters in the episode, maybe not including a few of them felt really fleshed out. Rick, Glenn, Micchone, and even Nicholas were exalting and their performances stood out throughout the episode. You could feel in the episode their pain and suffering because of the plan that unexpectedly went wrong. Another thing brilliant about them is how they make callbacks to previous episodes or events that explains why there are in that state or what they are doing. Micchone told the others what they should do because she's been out there with Rick and the group. Glenn snapped the others back to tried and get them to their senses because he's been there. Nicholas was scared and panicking because it has happened to him in Season 5 (and it didn't end well), and Rick, well he was badass cause he's always been a badass. You clearly see how these characters no longer need that same kind of boring exposition like from Season 2, but when they actually do add exposition, it!'s necessary and says a lot even if they aren't talking or speaking. But moreover, moving on to the technical aspect of the show, the scale truly looks and feels high. Wide shots of a huge amount of zombies were shown and looked pretty legit. Camera angles which weren't afraid to show the gore or hide something (which would hopefully be explained soon) and the zombie makeup looks well as always even if the show asks for a rather large horde of zombies now. Now let's talk about THAT moment and THAT scene now.
SPOILERS BELOW:
The scene at the dumpster where Glenn and Nicholas are trapped and cornered was and is one of the most tense moments the show has ever had and I'm glad to have stopped eating and analyze it a bit further. I'm pretty sure it got a lot of people raging or sad or thinking about quitting the show, but look further and let me tell you what I think about it. I honestly do not think Glenn is dead. No, it isn't because he may have used Nicholas' body which was on top of him and he went under the dumpster. Although those are also my considerations, the real reason why I don't think he's dead is because the show runners wouldn't do that. Glenn has been one of the longest running characters and being such an important character, he needs a better death, and what more memorable death than the one in the comics *SPOILERS TO THOSE WHO HAVEN'T READ THE COMICS*. If the show really wants to kill him off, they would've added more emphasis on it and end the episode at Glenn's death, but no. Instead the camera panned out and we got some badass Rick. The comics showed a much more shocking, gory and iconic death scene which excellently introduced us to the character of Negan. Now if the show doesn't go in this direction and he actually died, well then consider me surprised. Until then, my speculations are reserved.
Verdict: 9.6/10
First of, let me delve in to the character aspect of the episode. These characters in the episode, maybe not including a few of them felt really fleshed out. Rick, Glenn, Micchone, and even Nicholas were exalting and their performances stood out throughout the episode. You could feel in the episode their pain and suffering because of the plan that unexpectedly went wrong. Another thing brilliant about them is how they make callbacks to previous episodes or events that explains why there are in that state or what they are doing. Micchone told the others what they should do because she's been out there with Rick and the group. Glenn snapped the others back to tried and get them to their senses because he's been there. Nicholas was scared and panicking because it has happened to him in Season 5 (and it didn't end well), and Rick, well he was badass cause he's always been a badass. You clearly see how these characters no longer need that same kind of boring exposition like from Season 2, but when they actually do add exposition, it!'s necessary and says a lot even if they aren't talking or speaking. But moreover, moving on to the technical aspect of the show, the scale truly looks and feels high. Wide shots of a huge amount of zombies were shown and looked pretty legit. Camera angles which weren't afraid to show the gore or hide something (which would hopefully be explained soon) and the zombie makeup looks well as always even if the show asks for a rather large horde of zombies now. Now let's talk about THAT moment and THAT scene now.
SPOILERS BELOW:
The scene at the dumpster where Glenn and Nicholas are trapped and cornered was and is one of the most tense moments the show has ever had and I'm glad to have stopped eating and analyze it a bit further. I'm pretty sure it got a lot of people raging or sad or thinking about quitting the show, but look further and let me tell you what I think about it. I honestly do not think Glenn is dead. No, it isn't because he may have used Nicholas' body which was on top of him and he went under the dumpster. Although those are also my considerations, the real reason why I don't think he's dead is because the show runners wouldn't do that. Glenn has been one of the longest running characters and being such an important character, he needs a better death, and what more memorable death than the one in the comics *SPOILERS TO THOSE WHO HAVEN'T READ THE COMICS*. If the show really wants to kill him off, they would've added more emphasis on it and end the episode at Glenn's death, but no. Instead the camera panned out and we got some badass Rick. The comics showed a much more shocking, gory and iconic death scene which excellently introduced us to the character of Negan. Now if the show doesn't go in this direction and he actually died, well then consider me surprised. Until then, my speculations are reserved.
Verdict: 9.6/10