The Walking Dead Season 5: First 8 Episodes Ranked Worst To Best

6. Self Help

For every one of us who've read Robert Kirkman's comics, this episode marked a huge bombshell of a moment for the series that we'd been waiting to go off since Abraham, Rosita and Eugene rolled up on Glenn and Tara in season four with the singular mission of getting Eugene to Washington and curing the undead virus. Though many people who hadn't read the comics figured Eugene was full of it from day one, it doesn't make the crushing revelation that he had been lying the entire time easier to swallow. Self Help turned the spotlight on Abraham and Eugene, shedding light on the circumstances that led to Abraham being willing enough to be duped by Eugene while building up Eugene's coming to terms with the fact he needs to tell the truth. It gave actors Michael Cudlitz and Josh McDermitt more to chew on than ever before and Eugene's desperate admission of the truth, explanation of why he lied and subsequent cocky reminder that he is still smarter than everyone else only to be knocked unconscious by Abraham is a fantastic scene. Some may have decried the episode as an unwelcome detour with characters they don't care about, but it's a necessary episode that serves to both deal with the D.C. mission and further develop the two, particularly Abraham, in advance of where the show takes everyone next. If anything, the episode's big walker moment, wherein Eugene blasts away a pack of the undead with the fire truck's water cannon, is highly entertaining and one of the season's slickest ways of dispatching them. And who didn't laugh when Rosita caught Eugene watching her and Abraham have sex (again) in the library from, of course, the self help section?