The Walking Dead Season 11 Review: 4 Ups & 6 Downs From "Hunted"

Though it's still playing things safe from a character standpoint, The Walking Dead is still great when it comes to bolts from the blue elsewhere, as Hunted exemplifies perfectly with its haunting Alexandria arc.

The horse-catching scenes are played as decidedly light and hopeful than the Reaper-related stuff on the other side of the episode, allowing Carol, Rosita, Magna and Kelly to get some things off their chest and finally add a long-needed win to their troubling losses.

But at the end of the episode, the horses caught, Carol and Aaron pull the rug from under us and kill a horse for its meat. It was quite obvious this was going to happen in hindsight, but based on the way the development was portrayed there was no reason to believe it would happen on first viewing.

The other great twist comes from Rosita, who tells Carol she keeps dreaming about Abraham coming to her only to get shot at the last second. She thinks it's a warning for things to come, which is probably is, but ambiguity aside it was a nice twist to have a deceased character get name-dropped. That doesn't happen enough.