The Walking Dead 3.7 Review, “When the Dead Come Knocking”
rating: 4.5
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SPOILERS INCLUDED Dear The Walking Dead, It's okay to have more than two ethnic characters on the show. Just saying. We have Michonne, we have the African American prisoner, and soon we'll be meeting Tyreese. It's fine to add more ethnic characters in an already rich series. I want more, please. "When the Dead Come Knocking" is filled with psychological games, and torture that is based around bringing people down mentally more than physically. There's a huge change up in the prison storyline, as is the norm for the television series, and much of what occurs in this episode involves characters trying to keep their mental faculties about and solid. Now that Glenn and Maggie have been taken hostage by Merle, Michonne has been given the chance to find the safe haven in the prison. Using the opportunity presented by Merle, Michonne takes full advantage and appears at the prison. She's too hurt to survive on her own, but too proud to ask Rick for help. Instantly Michonne takes to action once the zombies begin to sense she's not one of them, and it's an interesting action when the first person to help Michonne in the front of the prison is Carl, who begins shooting walkers. Michonne is posing to be the most formidable and wise character in the show so far, and her judgement upon entering the prison is representative of an individual who has seen the world for what it is long before the walkers appeared. She scans literally everyone and immediately seems to warm up to Rick Grimes, in spite of the fact he seizes her katana and locks her up much like the Governor did. There's something about Rick that seems different to Michonne, in spite of the fact she enters the prison in the exact same conditions she did with Woodbury. The torture of Glenn and Maggie is just as grueling as it is in the comics, but the writers of the show was subtle in their way of inflicting pain on the young couple. Kirkman was relentless in depicting the torture of the characters seized in Woodbury, while the writers intend on depicting what we don't see as the pain.