The Walking Dead: 5 Things Self Help Did Right (And 5 It Didn't)

By Tom Baker /

The Bad:

5. Flipping Cars

Not that the episode was totally perfect. For one thing, it continued some of the writer€™s more lazy fall backs, including the apparent inability for anybody in The Walking Dead to drive a car properly. Using transportation as a way to both move the story (and the characters, more literally) forward, whilst also providing an obstacle, makes sense in a zombie apocalypse: petrol is limited, so there€™s always the chance they€™ll be stranded in the middle of nowhere without fuel; walkers are slow, but enough of them can overrun even a tank; clogged up highways are an issue. Those are all perfectly fine tropes to reuse across five seasons. You can€™t really blame them for returning to those old faithfuls. What is absolutely laughable is the amount of times somebody takes their eyes off the road for a second and their vehicle goes through a spectacular tumble, usually after hitting another (parked) car. Lori€™s in the second season was most ridiculous since, like this one, it had absolutely no consequences. She was banged up a bit. The fact that Self Help's crash was almost shot-for-shot the same as Lori€™s crash was unintentionally hilarious.