“The Walking Dead” is an amazing show. It is action packed and filled with so much drama. To those who are new to the show, you really should catch up. But first, a quick synopsis of the show.

The main character Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) awakens from a coma to find that the world has been overtaken by the undead. Some how the dead are rising, and they feast on the flesh of the living. Rick, once sheriff of the King County’s Sheriff Department, is shocked by this new world. He exits the hospital he was in and searches for his wife, Lori, and his son, Carl. Rick travels to Atlantic City, Georgia in search for them, and runs into a horde of zombies. Glen, a member of a surviving group, helps Rick out and leads him back to their group. Miraculously he finds his wife and son there. Rick and the group go onto face many problems trying to survive. The group not only faces the undead, but other humans trying to survive.

The group loses many and gains many survivors as well. They move onto a farm and then onto a prison. They take the prison from hordes of zombies and from inmates who survived as well. At the end of it all more are dead, but one brand new face joins their ranks,Judith, Rick’s newborn daughter. However, old faces arise from the past and another sinister villain is revealed,The Governor, the leader of Woodbury, a nearby town of survivors. Many events happen and  by the end of it Rick’s group ends up at arms with Woodbury. Rick’s Group of survivors win and Woodbury’s retreats. The governor, getting more and more psychotic, kills all of the fighters of woodbury for retreating. Fast forward a couple months and the prison is in peace, sustaining itself and not having many problems. However the peace doesn’t last. A sickness arises in the prison killing many, and causing many of the walkers to arise and kill more of the survivors. As the Prison is just getting over the epidemic, The Governor finds them and attacks once more. The Governor’s attack leaves the prison destroyed beyond repair. Many die on both sides. The most saddening and heart wrenching death, was that of little Judith.

This brings us up to the Mid-Season Premiere. The episode opens up with an overlooking view of the destruction that the battle at the prison had wrought. The Prison is lost. The survivors are spread out, unaware of anyone else’s survival. The episode surrounds Michonne’s exit and survival and reveals parts of her past. The episode also surrounds Rick and Carl’s escape. Carl is angry with his father for everything that happened, and hates being treated like a child still. Rick is suffering many wounds and is unable to move quickly and ends up in a coma like state for a day. Carl tries to scavenge for food, trying to prove to himself and his father that he’s not a child anymore. The episode ends with Carl and Rick resolving their problems, and Michonne resolving her own demons as well and also manages to track Rick and Carl down.

The episode is fantastic and the series has been absolutely amazing as well. I recommend this show to everyone i know. I think its so great and filled with a lot of action and story equally but it can get to you. I have caught myself crying numerous times at some heart-crushing scenes in this series.It will make you laugh,cry and jump out of your seat sometimes. This show IS good television. I can’t wait to see the rest of their journey.

by JIMMY AYALA