The Walking Dead: 9 Things "Conquer" Got Right (And 1 It Didn't)

5. Sasha's Survivor's Guilt Makes Sense

Meanwhile Sasha's subplots over the last handful of episodes €“ ever since they arrived in Alexandria, basically €“ have been a little harder to read, and a little less accomplished. It seemed like the writers were trying to intimate that all this post-apocalypse business has imbued some sort of post traumatic stress in her, but they never really committed to it properly or put it across in a way that made sense. When she was upset that somebody was asking her about a pasta maker, her disgust made sense. Sasha and the other survivors have suffered through so much that to see the relative opulence their new hosts have been living in is obviously galling; but everyone had that reaction, whilst Sasha was the only one who seemed really bothered. Which mainly came out as her sniping a lot of zombies, which doesn't seem like too terrible a thing. Only this week did that make sense, as it appeared she was suffering more from survivor's guilt than PTSD: that scene of her lying down in the mass grave of walkers was a haunting image, and put across the character's psychology better than any amount of shooting and angst did.