The Walking Dead: 8 Things "Forget" Got Right (And 2 It Didn't)

3. Everything Back To Normal

For the most part The Walking Dead is pulling from fifty or so years of zombie film history, pulling on everything from George Romero's genre-defining Night Of The Living Dead to recent fare like World War Z. This week's episode felt like it was drawing on a very different kind of horror movie, however. Everybody else got a total Stepford Wives vibe from the whole Alexandria dinner party thing, right? There's rebuilding civilisation, and then there's sticking your head in the sand, ignoring all the horrible zombies, and continuing with your bourgeois middle-class lifestyle to the point that somebody's biggest concern is apparently getting a pasta maker. Pitting the rough-and-ready Grimes Crew against this primed, pressed and presentable lot has provided a heck of a lot of great conflict, a culture clash not seen on the show before, and some really chilling moments: whilst Alexandria pretend everything is still the same, and Carol mostly plays the game, she's still not above threatening a child's life...