I lost it when Michonne handed Rick the phone and his memories of Carl came flooding back starting with Rick holding little Carl’s hand. Superb acting by Andy and phenomenal writing by Danai. Give them all the awards.
Michonne had to deal with Rick’s hallucinations before at the prison and his doubts after Negan killed Abraham and Glenn so she knew when something was still bothering him. Excellent acting. I’m not sure who is at Alexandria but I’m guessing a badass young woman named Judith and kid warrior named RJ are there.
Yes when she said your hurting me, that was soooo powerful. Because she is so strong and he has always been her safe place. But now he is the one that's hurting her 😢😢😢
And the last thing Rick Grimes would want to do is hurt Michonne. He shed tears when she told him that. If Andrew Lincoln doesn’t get nominated for all the awards and win a bunch. He ran the gamut from unfeeling and cold to distract to glad to be his old self with his mate by his side.
This episode is emotionally EPIC!!!! It gave me so many feels!!! To watch their acting and delivery was incredible. If Andy and Dania don't win an Emmy... we RIOT!!!
If they do not announce a second season before the Emmy awards, they can compete in the limited series category, which should increase their chances of winning.
This episode was perfection. One of the best episodes in the entire series.Danai’s writing was phenomenal in slowly breaking down Ricks trauma. Both Andy and Danai deserve ALL the awards next year ❤
That was a top 5 episode of anything walking dead, loved how michonne had to break down Rick & refuse to leave a crumbling building in order to get him to open up, Ricks head wasn’t up his ass he was just beat down into submission for 8 years, it becomes clear when he tells michonne everything in the most emotional gut punch scene TWD has ever done. that was such a perfectly written episode, Rick is back.
In addition to being an accomplished actor, Danai Gurira is a multiple award winning playwright whose work has also been nominated for the Tony award. Scott Gimple said he just stood back and let her do her thing. Which she so very much did. And I hope she and Andrew and the show are nominated for and win many Emmys this coming award season.
Rick was having a panic attack in bed. Michonne calmed him by putting his hand in her heart. Beautiful moment. Awesome work Danai and Andy 👏🏽 Great reaction! I know Jadis is coming for them but I think that the return character is the one stalking them as in following them but maybe is a friend come to find,help, save them from any enemies. Maybe Heath, Morgan or Silas.
11:05 “You don’t choose to stay in prison. When the doors open, you leave.” I’m surprised even Rick didn’t remind her how they literally lived in a prison for Season 3 and 1/2 of Season 4 😂
not even that rick and the group went in that prison and the prisoners locked in the canteen and didn't wanna leave after they were like clearly nothing is left out there if you are coming in prison for a roof over your head lol
My theory on how the season ends is with Rick and Michonne getting back to Alexandria after killing Jadis and thinking they destroyed her leverage, but the CRM is going to catch on anyway leading into season two.
I predict that the CRM will go on a reconnaissance mission where the helicopter is and they’ll figure out that Rick and Michonne (Dana?)are missing (because 2 bodies will be unaccounted for) but won’t know they’re connected. Thorne will go to help Rick and see Dana, and Jadis will go after Rick and Michonne
The next episode is called “Become” which does pair with this episode to say “What We Become” which was the title of TWD Season 10, Episode 13 aka Michonne’s final appearance before she left the show
True but it also covered 'the Prison and early Alexandrian arc (travel to DC) in the Comics' and included ways that showed how far the survivors were willing to go to both save themselves and protect their families, except Maggie, who after losing EVERYONE in her family, tried to kill herself. *Fun fact:* In the Comics it was 'Abraham' NOT Michonne that was with Rick when the _Claimed Crew_ tried to RAPE Carl and it was he who stopped it.
These episodes have been the top episodes for walking dead for me. Next to season 1/2. It just gives off the same vibe, the walkers are scary and they just keep moving. The dialogue is great.
Please don’t apologize for not talking more during certain reactions, some episodes are easy to talk through and some episodes make you think and feel more.
This episode was so needed to address the headspace of Rick and Michonne, but Jadis is still a big part of this show still - no way her role is done this season. I believe word will get to Jadis that Rick and Michonne got out and she will be part of the reclamation team to stop them. Rick did say for Jadis to be on the case when something happens to "Dana". Now we are going to get into a Rick and Michonne vs Jadis before they can get home.
4:10-4:30 The house being clean, I would imagine, given what we know this place to be, by the end of the episode can be attributed to the (mysteriously not full or circuit failed Roomba (automatic robot vacuum) and extremely efficient air filters in the "climate control" system (which would drastically reduce dust in the area, since contaminants are scrubbed from the air, there would likely be little dust, as no one is coming in and out, or living here, so new contaminants aren't being introduced. But this would require an extremely efficient filtration system to still not introduce new particulate matter. "Preferred temperature" 5:00-5:06 I would take this to be the temperature preference set by the previous occupant of this location. Given the year of the fall, this is a very high end "Smart Home" environment for the time. The occupant sets the temperature to "x degrees" so the system maintains a temperature that would allow it to reach that temperature by heating or cooling within several minutes of the occupant coming in. This would have to be cutting edge for 2009 when the fall happened. The fact that the door didn't have to be picked or bashed in should say something... 9:59-10:03 "Punch him, Punch him. He just needs a little sense knocked into him." Steve, should we be worried about your well being? Lacey seems a little eager to resort to violence (in this moment, and understandably) 18:13-18:20 "Is this the same apartment?" "What is this building they're in." My take: Different Apartment. The place was set up as an "off the grid" (probably has solar and/or wind power from the roof level) place for "various innovators, from different fields" to work together and innovate to create a better future, based on what was on the note we read earlier. Was probably designed to house a couple hundred people and had many "basically identical" smart apartments. Which would explain the same "welcome home" "preferred temperature" notifications, as well as why the doors aren't locked. Everyone was expected to trust. 21:56-22:15 "Our love? This ? It doesn't get denied." (But it can be Danai'd) 26:38-26:43 All those poor, innocent Roombas! [No Roombas were harmed in the making of this episode. (?)] For Danai to have written this (personally I could have seen it with a little less "wasted" time on their part when the entire building is in danger of collapsing at any moment, but I can accept it for the character exploration, and for clarity, what I mean by wasted, "the building could collapse anywhere from 10 minutes to 36 hours from now, so let's spend the night in this building, if it collapses in an hour, we're both dead, but sure, let's spend 4-14 hours in here by choice" I am all in favor of romance, connection and epiphanies, but can we at least try not to get splattered into paste?), and to have put together something that with her and Andrew's deliveries. If she chose, she could leave acting and make a fortune as a writer, or she could continue writing and acting and probably own a major studio before she retires. If they had a scene with RJ meeting Rick, RJ and Judith reuniting with Michonne, and a reunion of Judith with Rick. I would be content (albeit sad it's over) with that as an ending to this as a 4 part mini-series. Although that would make the range of the vehicle a plot convenience it might not be in the rest of the season. I mean, they see tanks of ethanol, they didn't check how full they are. What if only half of them are full? They don't have the range to get home. We don't know that whomever this vehicle belonged to had a full stock of fuel or if they were still making and loading fuel when the fall happened.
That was a really well written,well acted episode! It felt like watching a play in a theatre ,you can see that Danai is a playwright,really well done. I like how the whole episode was just the two of them and any mention of other people was only what they wanted to share with each other - in contrast to what Rick said to Thorne about Michonne when CRM were first taking Michonne on, and in contrast to the story Michonne was telling them in her entrance interview.
Remember, michonne doesn’t even know about the commonwealth and that Alexandria isn’t really there home anymore.. could be a commonwealth vs. CRM one day
Rick has every right to be that way. You didn't watch World Beyond S2 but they destroyed a community that had 100k people with little effort, that's double the size of Commonwealth. So all it would take is one helicopter to destroy alexandria and everyone in it.
But nobody's in Alexandria, they're in Common Wealth so it'll be all good... But Rick and Michonee ain't going know that. I really do think this show ends with them returning to Alexandria, having cheerful smiles, but then a couple helicopters hover over them and there smiles turn to worry... Then they will confirm a season 2 or a season 12 of TWD after Daryl gets wrapped up in France, after Maggie comes back (Negan dies to save her) and TWD will return for one FINAL SEASON that'll be the big bad war of CRM vs All of Ricks people. At least that's my dream
Gabriel and Coco for sure are living at Alexandria. Lydia & Elijah brought him a delivery there during the final episode from the congregation at Commonwealth. @evilhellmusic8038
I love love love this episode. Did anyone peep the titles of episode 1,2 and 3? Episode 1 was called "years" episode 2 "Gone" episode 3 "Bye". "Days Gone By" was the name of the walking dead season 1 episode 1 when Rick finally woke up out of his coma and needed to find his family
Danai wrote the hell out of this episode! Incredible acting too! I think they'll have an anniversary getaway then go fight the CRM. Bit only the beginning!
Rick needs to hallucinate Shane again to motivate his ass once again with his influence to not be broken weak rick to go back to being savage season 5 rick 😂
be careful getting predictions for this guys, the entire show leaked and a lot of people have spoilers and have been spoiled for the whole show since before the 1st episode aired, some ppl might try to “predict” and look like they’re a genius but rlly they already know
That is a good point. Maybe we shouldn't do that. I might have to find a way to weed out those that may have come from those leaks (and thus spoiling myself).
@@DuoReacts We’ve been chatting about this in the mod room. The first 4 episodes were out early, and there is debate about what is out for the final two. I’m working on learning more about this.
Check the credits again. Michael Slovis was the director here. But Danai did serve as the show runner, which basically meant she was the director's boss.
So happy we’ve got you back reacting, I loved this episode and the acting from both parts was absolutely phenomenal. Danai shone here! Cant wait for the next 2…
Thank You! :) P.S. Lacey spotted that Rick is not wearing CRM uniform is the first one so far in reactions i have seen :) P.S.S this episode reminds me TWD season 7 episode 8, when Mishone talks to Rick and persuaded to fight Negan (Ending in Hilltops) Love Mishone!
I really hope my predictions don't happen, but I would say Michonne is going to die, and it would have to be Michonne because one of the main reasons for this show is to start the journey back to Alexandria/ Commonwealth to reunite with Judith, RJ, Daryl, Carol ... If that doesn't happen, I will be very disappointed. I was also thinking about what Rick said and how he can't live without her. What if she dies and he kills himself. You know what I just thought of right now. What if Rick is about to kill himself and then someone, preferably Daryl, walks in and stops him before he can do it or maybe Michonne is about to be killed and then Daryl walks in. Brilliant episode by the way. What beautiful dialogue and acting between two beautiful characters and actors. There love is truly epic in all ways! I love emotional Rick! I love Michonne getting mad and emotional with him. I love the love scene! I love them taking every opportunity to kiss or make out! I love every second!
Danai Gurira (Michonne) wrote/produced this episode... They both need Emmys right now.. There sex scene, Rick's had anxiety (trouble get erect) cause he hasn't had sex in almost 8yrs.
After watching the episode, I think maybe the rest will be their journey home while the crm is after them. I definitely only think this is the beginning of a shit storm and I'm not prepared 😭😭
Rick was with the CRM, longer than in his relationship with Michonne. Thus, it was easier for him to fall out of the relationship. Yes, they knew each other longer, but it didn't turn into love until season 7 or 8 on The Walking Dead, if my memory serves me right. My prediction for the show is Jadis will pursue them, and then they will reach that massive horde of Walkers that Nat in episode 2 caused to part like in the book of Exodus with the purple explosions allowing Rick and Michonne to escape. Thus ending Season 1. Giving us a setup for a season 2. The CRM will come after the community of Alexandria.
“What We” title of this episode Next episode title is “Become” What we Become is the title of one of the volumes from the Walking Dead comics! It’s also the title of the episode from season 10 where Michonne leaves the original show! I think it is a clever name - I feel like it speaks to what Rick has “become” with the CRM vs who he used to be, which is something Michonne points out a lot in her dialogue in this episode.
Jadis dies either by Michonne and/or walkers 🎉 Rick has to go back to CRM to find Jadis's file on him and Alexandria He gets briefed on ECHELON Michonne goes home to raise resistance against CRM and ck on status of her children
This episode broke me and toyed with my emotions in the worst ways. Were almost in the endgame..... but i think theres still more left unsaid that needs to be resolved before this is all over. Theres still tension in the air and jadis still looms overhead. Excellent episode, brilliant reaction guys.
Everyone has their own opinions but I think its dumb to under estimate the CRM, I think Rick was right to go back, and they are gonna go to a ruined Alexandria and we might have that thing where omg is RJ and Judith dead? But I don't think they would end them in that way but they will try to steer in that direction I think. I think all these series are leading up everyone against the CRM but they wont be overpowered it will take a big Brian plan to take them down. Think if the CRM as the Thanos of TWD lol.
Hey Guys another great episode. Danai did the damn thing and she and Andy knocked it out of the park with their acting. This talk was very much needed. They and us the audience needed to hear them shout fight and duke it out. And boy did they ever. When Michonne left I was like Rick open the damn door and go after her, then he did and they had another shouting match, then a competitive walker kill that was funny 😂 he almost lost her so he decided to make his move when he go back to the apartment, and oh boy that was 🥵 when Rick started to hyperventilate I was like Lacey asking Rick if he was ok but Michonne knows her man and she took great care of him and lead him home. When Rick asked Michonne if she killed josslyn and she said yes and he said good I said yes Rick Grimes is almost back and he was fully back after talking about losing her and Carl in his dreams. Yes Steve Richonne is Back! And I’m so excited. Prediction: I feel like jadis will come after them bcuz she’s not goin to believe they died in that helicopter, plus her obsession with Rick won’t let her, I really hope she dies a horrible death bcuz I’m pretty sure she didn’t tell the CRM anything she probably just went off on her own. Anyway looking forward to E5. Have a great week guys.
Hi Steve and Lacey this is my prediction I hate to say this but I predict that Jadis kills Rick and Michonne kills Jadis and Michonne gets Rick's body home.
Just discovered your channel, This episode was beyond excellent 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Danai wrote her A** off!!! From start to finish😭😭😭😭😭 She brought the vulnerability of Rick and why he did not want to leave the CRM I wish they would be Nominated and win awards( Emmy's, SAG and the Golden Globe) for this outstanding work🤴🏻👸🏿🧟♂️🧟♀️
Hey guys- we are most definitely gonna get some alone time with jadis- she is coming for them. I think jadis will end up getting killed, also that walker in the teaser for the next episode looks almost calcified and the location is a ranger station- I’m assuming that means yellow stone national park because of the calcite springs.
I also wanted to add that I think a new dream sequence with Carl would be absolutely amazing. Like Carl comes back to his dreams and it’s actually a new scene with chandler.
I wish people would stop saying Rick was being stubborn. Yes, I’m sure he can be stubborn, but none of this was ever *that*. This man was acting out of TRAUMA. He basically “killed himself” when he realized he probably wasn’t going home. That’s when Carl disappeared from his dreams. After the 4th attempt, when Okafor told him “I know about Michonne and your daughter, so you’re going to clear Cascadia and set it up,” that was when he burned the unsent letters and all the phones Benjiro made over the years. And that’s when he finally lost memories of Michonne. He remembered how to die. Then she shows up and though Okafur is dead, Jadis does . Rick is desperate to get Michonne out of there before he has to see her killed. If anything were to happen, like she was taken away, he’d actually end himself. If she escaped, it would be different. He could imagine she’d made it back home, and he’d imagine her and Judith were safe. When she throws them out of the chopper, he can’t have them (Jadis) think he escaped with her. And when Michonne tells him they have a son, it’s now *another* reason for her to not be there and for him to stay. The genius of this writing is that they’re both on different pages. She’s trying to reason with him and he can’t be reasoned with. He’s trying to reason with her and same. But the through line is that they both love each other, absolutely and fiercely. He sees her almost naked for the first time in close to 10 years, but he doesn’t quite know how he feels because she just threw them out of a helicopter. She looks back at him, he’s still in that uniform, and he just recently told her that it was over between them. “Everything [they] have is broken” and she’s shocked he had the nerve to try that BS on her and think she’d just leave. Sorry for the long comment, but I just wanted to say that Rick wasn’t being stubborn. Also, I’d seen some people thinking Michonne was being unreasonable, but she’s been through some shit too. Both of them are hurting. She sees it when he starts to have a panic attack as they’re making love. She stops and *sees* that there’s a wound there. She probably thought he was stubborn too until that moment: When she guides him through and they’re finally able to be *together*, it seems okay until he starts up with fixing the CRM again. It’s not until she tells him she’s hurt. And he’s the one hurting her, that he sees *her* wound. And be finally lets it all out and tells her. And she gives him the thing he thought he lost: Carl’s face. They begin to heal each other, which gets them back in sync, which we see as they kill walkers like they’re dance partners. Anyway, loved your reaction!!
I couldn't stand this episode, or most of it. It was just a bunch of arguing in a strange living room... Then they made Rick look like a deadbeat dad... Rick is a very important character who's entire mission has been to find his family. Now they make him this way, he hears he has a son and not 10 seconds later he doesn't even acknowledge it. I'm so upset
I personally think it was brilliantly written. The end of the episode where Rick finally breaks down his walls and be honest with himself and with Michonne... We all know Rick isn't a deadbeat dad, and Michonne knows that too. This just goes to show how the CRM messed Rick up bad. He wasn't even himself anymore.
That's only what you saw. The rest of us knew Rick Grimes was scared to death that the CRM was gonna murder his wife, his children and the rest of his family. Okafor and Jadis threatened to kill them if he left. He believed them and he was traumatized by their threats.
We are certainly going to watch the spinoffs. Especially before Dixon season 2. Not sure on posting the reactions yet. We will see how much we can handle. This summer is going to be big with Hot D, the Boys, and Dixon all dropping around the same time.
3:07 Danai did not direct this episode, but she did write it and handled the show running responsibilities. Breaking Bad veteran Michael Slovis was this episode’s director. 6:50 The light goes off over Steve’s head right away. And I do think Michonne was 100% intentional there. 7:41 “We need to go back” is just like GoT’s “I don’t want it” from Jon Snow. 8:15 The future Rick and the CRM are talking about sounds a bit like the 4th Reich. Which it might be great for those inside, but to everyone else it’s pure hell. 16:48 This scene reminded Katie of the ending of Lost for a couple of those characters. It did very briefly feel like they both might not have made it out there. 18:24 Cue up the Barry White music. Some long overdue whoopee is about to be made. 18:58 I think Rick was nervous during the sex scene because his left hand had his “magic fingers” and he’s now extra nervous. 20:02 The Roomba would also need to be emptied every few runs too. So it’s hard to believe it could keep a place that clean for that long. 23:20 At this point, Rick reminds me of Red in Shawshank. He’s given up all hope and accepted his fate. And any hope of freedom just crushes that acceptance. 26:15 Man they just found the most perfect getaway car. That is so convenient. 27:40 Holy crap Lacey, that sounded just like Jon Snow… err I mean Rick. Overall, I enjoyed this episode a lot. Katie said that they may have taken a bit of influence from The Last of Us and I see a bit of that. Perhaps TWD will get some love from the Emmy voters now. The performances here were phenomenal.
I lost it when Michonne handed Rick the phone and his memories of Carl came flooding back starting with Rick holding little Carl’s hand. Superb acting by Andy and phenomenal writing by Danai. Give them all the awards.
Yeah, she gave him back...
Michonne had to deal with Rick’s hallucinations before at the prison and his doubts after Negan killed Abraham and Glenn so she knew when something was still bothering him. Excellent acting. I’m not sure who is at Alexandria but I’m guessing a badass young woman named Judith and kid warrior named RJ are there.
Yes when she said your hurting me, that was soooo powerful. Because she is so strong and he has always been her safe place. But now he is the one that's hurting her 😢😢😢
And the last thing Rick Grimes would want to do is hurt Michonne. He shed tears when she told him that.
If Andrew Lincoln doesn’t get nominated for all the awards and win a bunch.
He ran the gamut from unfeeling and cold to distract to glad to be his old self with his mate by his side.
19:11 Rick was having a panic/anxiety attach because his mind keeps going back to his fear, but Michonne reminded him about the moment.
Oh I thought he just ejaculated fast because of how long its been💀
IT'S WAS BEAUTIFUL AND HEARTBREAKING ALL ROLLED UP IN ONE AMAZING MOMENT
Absolutely! Rick is definitely experiencing anxiety and PTSD symptoms. The power of love is incredible and can heal all wounds.
I loved this episode!! This is the stuff of Emmy awards! Danai and Andrew ate and left NO CRUMBS.
This episode is emotionally EPIC!!!! It gave me so many feels!!! To watch their acting and delivery was incredible. If Andy and Dania don't win an Emmy... we RIOT!!!
If they do not announce a second season before the Emmy awards, they can compete in the limited series category, which should increase their chances of winning.
I'm totally on board for rioting if this amazing couple don't take the top awards 💪🏻💪🏿🔥🔥💞
@@FrancisTurner-z6z We were handing out pitchforks last week… maybe we should keep them around.
This episode was perfection. One of the best episodes in the entire series.Danai’s writing was phenomenal in slowly breaking down Ricks trauma. Both Andy and Danai deserve ALL the awards next year ❤
That was a top 5 episode of anything walking dead, loved how michonne had to break down Rick & refuse to leave a crumbling building in order to get him to open up, Ricks head wasn’t up his ass he was just beat down into submission for 8 years, it becomes clear when he tells michonne everything in the most emotional gut punch scene TWD has ever done. that was such a perfectly written episode, Rick is back.
In addition to being an accomplished actor, Danai Gurira is a multiple award winning playwright whose work has also been nominated for the Tony award.
Scott Gimple said he just stood back and let her do her thing.
Which she so very much did.
And I hope she and Andrew and the show are nominated for and win many Emmys this coming award season.
I’m so glad Michonne mentioned josslynn b/c Rick needed to hear abt it.
It's a different apartment. This was a self-sustaining living community from the early 2000s.
Beautifully Written, Showrun, Edited, Produced and Acted In by accomplished Playwright, Danai Jekesai Gurira. 🌺
This was by far the best episode out of the whole walking dead series. They both deserve awards . The acting was phenomanal ❤
Michonne needs to write more episodes, this was fantastic! It was real not all lovey dovey, there was arguing, pleading, negotiating like real life.
He's more FEARFUL than brainwashed, in my opinion.
The trauma he suffered being in the CRM was very real. Michonne literally loved Rick back to life!
He’s *traumatized*.
They've really done a good job setting up what I hope to be a bigger story beyond this season so far 💯
This may be my favorite WD episode ever!! I rarely laugh and cry in the same episode so if the show can accomplish that... chef's kiss
Rick was having a panic attack in bed. Michonne calmed him by putting his hand in her heart. Beautiful moment.
Awesome work Danai and Andy 👏🏽
Great reaction!
I know Jadis is coming for them but I think that the return character is the one stalking them as in following them but maybe is a friend come to find,help, save them from any enemies. Maybe Heath, Morgan or Silas.
11:05 “You don’t choose to stay in prison. When the doors open, you leave.” I’m surprised even Rick didn’t remind her how they literally lived in a prison for Season 3 and 1/2 of Season 4 😂
not even that rick and the group went in that prison and the prisoners locked in the canteen and didn't wanna leave after they were like clearly nothing is left out there if you are coming in prison for a roof over your head lol
Especially since this title in the Comics included their last sojourn at the Prison.
I fussed at RICK GRIMES, and, yes I full named hum, for at least 15 minutes on Sunday.
Fantastic episode! One of the bests in the entire TWDU
You were talking over rick when he said to michonne in the car “ oh it’s a stick shift “ . Meaning he can’t drive it due to him having one hand
He lost his left hand.....he just can't drive a stick!
My theory on how the season ends is with Rick and Michonne getting back to Alexandria after killing Jadis and thinking they destroyed her leverage, but the CRM is going to catch on anyway leading into season two.
Sadly Alexandrias set was taken apart after TWD ended.
This episode was fantastic! Each episode gets better. I can't wait for next week.
I predict that the CRM will go on a reconnaissance mission where the helicopter is and they’ll figure out that Rick and Michonne (Dana?)are missing (because 2 bodies will be unaccounted for) but won’t know they’re connected. Thorne will go to help Rick and see Dana, and Jadis will go after Rick and Michonne
The next episode is called “Become” which does pair with this episode to say “What We Become” which was the title of TWD Season 10, Episode 13 aka Michonne’s final appearance before she left the show
True but it also covered 'the Prison and early Alexandrian arc (travel to DC) in the Comics' and included ways that showed how far the survivors were willing to go to both save themselves and protect their families, except Maggie, who after losing EVERYONE in her family, tried to kill herself. *Fun fact:* In the Comics it was 'Abraham' NOT Michonne that was with Rick when the _Claimed Crew_ tried to RAPE Carl and it was he who stopped it.
These episodes have been the top episodes for walking dead for me. Next to season 1/2. It just gives off the same vibe, the walkers are scary and they just keep moving. The dialogue is great.
Please don’t apologize for not talking more during certain reactions, some episodes are easy to talk through and some episodes make you think and feel more.
I feel like Jadis wont believe they are dead and try and look for them
Oh man was this episode awesome. Really needed this one for Rick to finally break and get back on track
This episode was so needed to address the headspace of Rick and Michonne, but Jadis is still a big part of this show still - no way her role is done this season. I believe word will get to Jadis that Rick and Michonne got out and she will be part of the reclamation team to stop them. Rick did say for Jadis to be on the case when something happens to "Dana". Now we are going to get into a Rick and Michonne vs Jadis before they can get home.
4:10-4:30 The house being clean, I would imagine, given what we know this place to be, by the end of the episode can be attributed to the (mysteriously not full or circuit failed Roomba (automatic robot vacuum) and extremely efficient air filters in the "climate control" system (which would drastically reduce dust in the area, since contaminants are scrubbed from the air, there would likely be little dust, as no one is coming in and out, or living here, so new contaminants aren't being introduced. But this would require an extremely efficient filtration system to still not introduce new particulate matter.
"Preferred temperature" 5:00-5:06 I would take this to be the temperature preference set by the previous occupant of this location. Given the year of the fall, this is a very high end "Smart Home" environment for the time. The occupant sets the temperature to "x degrees" so the system maintains a temperature that would allow it to reach that temperature by heating or cooling within several minutes of the occupant coming in. This would have to be cutting edge for 2009 when the fall happened. The fact that the door didn't have to be picked or bashed in should say something...
9:59-10:03 "Punch him, Punch him. He just needs a little sense knocked into him."
Steve, should we be worried about your well being? Lacey seems a little eager to resort to violence (in this moment, and understandably)
18:13-18:20 "Is this the same apartment?" "What is this building they're in."
My take: Different Apartment. The place was set up as an "off the grid" (probably has solar and/or wind power from the roof level) place for "various innovators, from different fields" to work together and innovate to create a better future, based on what was on the note we read earlier. Was probably designed to house a couple hundred people and had many "basically identical" smart apartments. Which would explain the same "welcome home" "preferred temperature" notifications, as well as why the doors aren't locked. Everyone was expected to trust.
21:56-22:15 "Our love? This ? It doesn't get denied." (But it can be Danai'd)
26:38-26:43 All those poor, innocent Roombas! [No Roombas were harmed in the making of this episode. (?)]
For Danai to have written this (personally I could have seen it with a little less "wasted" time on their part when the entire building is in danger of collapsing at any moment, but I can accept it for the character exploration, and for clarity, what I mean by wasted, "the building could collapse anywhere from 10 minutes to 36 hours from now, so let's spend the night in this building, if it collapses in an hour, we're both dead, but sure, let's spend 4-14 hours in here by choice" I am all in favor of romance, connection and epiphanies, but can we at least try not to get splattered into paste?), and to have put together something that with her and Andrew's deliveries. If she chose, she could leave acting and make a fortune as a writer, or she could continue writing and acting and probably own a major studio before she retires.
If they had a scene with RJ meeting Rick, RJ and Judith reuniting with Michonne, and a reunion of Judith with Rick. I would be content (albeit sad it's over) with that as an ending to this as a 4 part mini-series. Although that would make the range of the vehicle a plot convenience it might not be in the rest of the season. I mean, they see tanks of ethanol, they didn't check how full they are. What if only half of them are full? They don't have the range to get home. We don't know that whomever this vehicle belonged to had a full stock of fuel or if they were still making and loading fuel when the fall happened.
This whole comment is gold, but this line is PERFECTION: "'Our love? This ? It doesn't get denied.' (But it can be Danai'd)"
That was a really well written,well acted episode! It felt like watching a play in a theatre ,you can see that Danai is a playwright,really well done. I like how the whole episode was just the two of them and any mention of other people was only what they wanted to share with each other - in contrast to what Rick said to Thorne about Michonne when CRM were first taking Michonne on, and in contrast to the story Michonne was telling them in her entrance interview.
It’s great to see y’all reacting to a tv show you enjoy again. Hope everything is good health wise and welcome back!🌺
Remember, michonne doesn’t even know about the commonwealth and that Alexandria isn’t really there home anymore.. could be a commonwealth vs. CRM one day
Rick has every right to be that way. You didn't watch World Beyond S2 but they destroyed a community that had 100k people with little effort, that's double the size of Commonwealth. So all it would take is one helicopter to destroy alexandria and everyone in it.
"Right out of that bootie hole!" LOL Not something you hear every day.
3 predictions
1.) jadis died
2.) Morgan shows up
3.) Alexandria gets nuked
But nobody's in Alexandria, they're in Common Wealth so it'll be all good... But Rick and Michonee ain't going know that. I really do think this show ends with them returning to Alexandria, having cheerful smiles, but then a couple helicopters hover over them and there smiles turn to worry...
Then they will confirm a season 2 or a season 12 of TWD after Daryl gets wrapped up in France, after Maggie comes back (Negan dies to save her) and TWD will return for one FINAL SEASON that'll be the big bad war of CRM vs All of Ricks people.
At least that's my dream
Gabriel and Coco for sure are living at Alexandria. Lydia & Elijah brought him a delivery there during the final episode from the congregation at Commonwealth. @evilhellmusic8038
I believe if Rick had his S.O.S button he would have hit it without thinking twice... They brainwashed him so hard
I think he would have too.
I know it not the perfect ending, but we needed to see them happy. One of my favorite episodes ever.
I love love love this episode. Did anyone peep the titles of episode 1,2 and 3? Episode 1 was called "years" episode 2 "Gone" episode 3 "Bye". "Days Gone By" was the name of the walking dead season 1 episode 1 when Rick finally woke up out of his coma and needed to find his family
Danai wrote the hell out of this episode! Incredible acting too! I think they'll have an anniversary getaway then go fight the CRM. Bit only the beginning!
I believe Morgan Jones will Stumble upon Rick and Michone later on probably in the last episode and they’ll plan an attack on the CRM
Rick needs to hallucinate Shane again to motivate his ass once again with his influence to not be broken weak rick to go back to being savage season 5 rick 😂
This is the first time in a long time that a Walking Dead episode properly left me speechless.
be careful getting predictions for this guys, the entire show leaked and a lot of people have spoilers and have been spoiled for the whole show since before the 1st episode aired, some ppl might try to “predict” and look like they’re a genius but rlly they already know
That is a good point. Maybe we shouldn't do that. I might have to find a way to weed out those that may have come from those leaks (and thus spoiling myself).
Oh noooo I didn't know the whole show had been leaked... Steve will be so disappointed!!
@@DuoReacts We’ve been chatting about this in the mod room. The first 4 episodes were out early, and there is debate about what is out for the final two. I’m working on learning more about this.
I feel like they're going to run into Morgan at some point. Because Morgan mentioned he was going to look for Rick.
This episode actually makes me want to fall in love ❤
Yes she did direct this episode also,she talked about how she had to switch back and forth while acting and directing she and Andy 🥰
Check the credits again. Michael Slovis was the director here. But Danai did serve as the show runner, which basically meant she was the director's boss.
So happy we’ve got you back reacting, I loved this episode and the acting from both parts was absolutely phenomenal. Danai shone here! Cant wait for the next 2…
Thank You! :) P.S. Lacey spotted that Rick is not wearing CRM uniform is the first one so far in reactions i have seen :) P.S.S this episode reminds me TWD season 7 episode 8, when Mishone talks to Rick and persuaded to fight Negan (Ending in Hilltops) Love Mishone!
I really hope my predictions don't happen, but I would say Michonne is going to die, and it would have to be Michonne because one of the main reasons for this show is to start the journey back to Alexandria/ Commonwealth to reunite with Judith, RJ, Daryl, Carol ... If that doesn't happen, I will be very disappointed. I was also thinking about what Rick said and how he can't live without her. What if she dies and he kills himself. You know what I just thought of right now. What if Rick is about to kill himself and then someone, preferably Daryl, walks in and stops him before he can do it or maybe Michonne is about to be killed and then Daryl walks in. Brilliant episode by the way. What beautiful dialogue and acting between two beautiful characters and actors. There love is truly epic in all ways! I love emotional Rick! I love Michonne getting mad and emotional with him. I love the love scene! I love them taking every opportunity to kiss or make out! I love every second!
Danai Gurira (Michonne) wrote/produced this episode... They both need Emmys right now.. There sex scene, Rick's had anxiety (trouble get erect) cause he hasn't had sex in almost 8yrs.
Michael Slovis was the director of this episode, but Danai did do everything else you mentioned.
After watching the episode, I think maybe the rest will be their journey home while the crm is after them. I definitely only think this is the beginning of a shit storm and I'm not prepared 😭😭
Rick was with the CRM, longer than in his relationship with Michonne. Thus, it was easier for him to fall out of the relationship. Yes, they knew each other longer, but it didn't turn into love until season 7 or 8 on The Walking Dead, if my memory serves me right.
My prediction for the show is Jadis will pursue them, and then they will reach that massive horde of Walkers that Nat in episode 2 caused to part like in the book of Exodus with the purple explosions allowing Rick and Michonne to escape. Thus ending Season 1. Giving us a setup for a season 2. The CRM will come after the community of Alexandria.
Rick and Michonne slept together for the first time season 6, episode 10.
I think it's not going to be the last time we see bangs
It's written by danai but directed by m8chael slovis
neither of them were flying the helicopter so them jumping would’ve had nothing to do with the crash
It might have if the pilot became aware and tried to turn around without seeing the building or getting caught in the wind or something like that.
This episode was so sad he forgot Carl
“What We” title of this episode
Next episode title is “Become”
What we Become is the title of one of the volumes from the Walking Dead comics! It’s also the title of the episode from season 10 where Michonne leaves the original show!
I think it is a clever name - I feel like it speaks to what Rick has “become” with the CRM vs who he used to be, which is something Michonne points out a lot in her dialogue in this episode.
This was a great episode and I have no idea what will happen next, which is great!
Jadis will find that CRM uniform.
Jadis dies either by Michonne and/or walkers 🎉
Rick has to go back to CRM to find Jadis's file on him and Alexandria
He gets briefed on ECHELON
Michonne goes home to raise resistance against CRM and ck on status of her children
Well written episode! Good for you Michone!
What an amazingly emotional episode ❤
Ah... Rick oops a little too soon. Come on, it's been 8 years!!!
This episode broke me and toyed with my emotions in the worst ways. Were almost in the endgame..... but i think theres still more left unsaid that needs to be resolved before this is all over. Theres still tension in the air and jadis still looms overhead. Excellent episode, brilliant reaction guys.
Everyone has their own opinions but I think its dumb to under estimate the CRM, I think Rick was right to go back, and they are gonna go to a ruined Alexandria and we might have that thing where omg is RJ and Judith dead? But I don't think they would end them in that way but they will try to steer in that direction I think. I think all these series are leading up everyone against the CRM but they wont be overpowered it will take a big Brian plan to take them down. Think if the CRM as the Thanos of TWD lol.
I didn't understand the joke with the manual transmission. Why doesn't Rick know how to control it?
He needs both hands because he has to control the stick shift and the wheel. He should have raised his metal hand when he said it, but that's why.
I think he had a small panic attack in the bed with her
I hope they make it home and do a crm vs common wealth that would be fun to see
It was funny when Lacey said pull your head out of your ass and I'm with you Lacey when your eyes got wet lol mine did too love the reactions 😊
Thought he woulda asked about Daryl and what’s been goin on and stuff
I just dont think they can beat the CRM except from within!
I think all the walking dead genres are going to come together and end with everyone together .
Hey Guys another great episode. Danai did the damn thing and she and Andy knocked it out of the park with their acting. This talk was very much needed. They and us the audience needed to hear them shout fight and duke it out. And boy did they ever. When Michonne left I was like Rick open the damn door and go after her, then he did and they had another shouting match, then a competitive walker kill that was funny 😂 he almost lost her so he decided to make his move when he go back to the apartment, and oh boy that was 🥵 when Rick started to hyperventilate I was like Lacey asking Rick if he was ok but Michonne knows her man and she took great care of him and lead him home. When Rick asked Michonne if she killed josslyn and she said yes and he said good I said yes Rick Grimes is almost back and he was fully back after talking about losing her and Carl in his dreams. Yes Steve Richonne is Back! And I’m so excited. Prediction: I feel like jadis will come after them bcuz she’s not goin to believe they died in that helicopter, plus her obsession with Rick won’t let her, I really hope she dies a horrible death bcuz I’m pretty sure she didn’t tell the CRM anything she probably just went off on her own. Anyway looking forward to E5. Have a great week guys.
Hi Steve and Lacey this is my prediction I hate to say this but I predict that Jadis kills Rick and Michonne kills Jadis and Michonne gets Rick's body home.
I think the title kind of make sense what we,would do or what we need to do
THE CARL STUFF BROKE ME AGAIN
Just discovered your channel,
This episode was beyond excellent 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Danai wrote her A** off!!! From start to finish😭😭😭😭😭
She brought the vulnerability of Rick and why he did not want to leave the CRM
I wish they would be Nominated and win awards( Emmy's, SAG and the Golden Globe) for this outstanding work🤴🏻👸🏿🧟♂️🧟♀️
This episode was cinematic gold
Hey guys- we are most definitely gonna get some alone time with jadis- she is coming for them. I think jadis will end up getting killed, also that walker in the teaser for the next episode looks almost calcified and the location is a ranger station- I’m assuming that means yellow stone national park because of the calcite springs.
I also wanted to add that I think a new dream sequence with Carl would be absolutely amazing. Like Carl comes back to his dreams and it’s actually a new scene with chandler.
I wish people would stop saying Rick was being stubborn. Yes, I’m sure he can be stubborn, but none of this was ever *that*.
This man was acting out of TRAUMA.
He basically “killed himself” when he realized he probably wasn’t going home.
That’s when Carl disappeared from his dreams.
After the 4th attempt, when Okafor told him “I know about Michonne and your daughter, so you’re going to clear Cascadia and set it up,” that was when he burned the unsent letters and all the phones Benjiro made over the years. And that’s when he finally lost memories of Michonne.
He remembered how to die.
Then she shows up and though Okafur is dead, Jadis does .
Rick is desperate to get Michonne out of there before he has to see her killed.
If anything were to happen, like she was taken away, he’d actually end himself.
If she escaped, it would be different. He could imagine she’d made it back home, and he’d imagine her and Judith were safe.
When she throws them out of the chopper, he can’t have them (Jadis) think he escaped with her. And when Michonne tells him they have a son, it’s now *another* reason for her to not be there and for him to stay.
The genius of this writing is that they’re both on different pages. She’s trying to reason with him and he can’t be reasoned with.
He’s trying to reason with her and same.
But the through line is that they both love each other, absolutely and fiercely.
He sees her almost naked for the first time in close to 10 years, but he doesn’t quite know how he feels because she just threw them out of a helicopter.
She looks back at him, he’s still in that uniform, and he just recently told her that it was over between them. “Everything [they] have is broken” and she’s shocked he had the nerve to try that BS on her and think she’d just leave.
Sorry for the long comment, but I just wanted to say that Rick wasn’t being stubborn.
Also, I’d seen some people thinking Michonne was being unreasonable, but she’s been through some shit too.
Both of them are hurting.
She sees it when he starts to have a panic attack as they’re making love. She stops and *sees* that there’s a wound there. She probably thought he was stubborn too until that moment:
When she guides him through and they’re finally able to be *together*, it seems okay until he starts up with fixing the CRM again.
It’s not until she tells him she’s hurt. And he’s the one hurting her, that he sees *her* wound.
And be finally lets it all out and tells her.
And she gives him the thing he thought he lost: Carl’s face.
They begin to heal each other, which gets them back in sync, which we see as they kill walkers like they’re dance partners.
Anyway, loved your reaction!!
Great analysis, bravo.
yeah you guys were way too hard on rick in this
I couldn't stand this episode, or most of it. It was just a bunch of arguing in a strange living room... Then they made Rick look like a deadbeat dad... Rick is a very important character who's entire mission has been to find his family. Now they make him this way, he hears he has a son and not 10 seconds later he doesn't even acknowledge it. I'm so upset
I personally think it was brilliantly written. The end of the episode where Rick finally breaks down his walls and be honest with himself and with Michonne... We all know Rick isn't a deadbeat dad, and Michonne knows that too. This just goes to show how the CRM messed Rick up bad. He wasn't even himself anymore.
That's only what you saw. The rest of us knew Rick Grimes was scared to death that the CRM was gonna murder his wife, his children and the rest of his family. Okafor and Jadis threatened to kill them if he left. He believed them and he was traumatized by their threats.
Can you both react to other spin-offs too after this show end?
We are certainly going to watch the spinoffs. Especially before Dixon season 2. Not sure on posting the reactions yet. We will see how much we can handle. This summer is going to be big with Hot D, the Boys, and Dixon all dropping around the same time.
Great video.
Rick is the only one making sense, it's not worth risking everyone else's lives
This is the best episode so far 👌.
3:07 Danai did not direct this episode, but she did write it and handled the show running responsibilities. Breaking Bad veteran Michael Slovis was this episode’s director.
6:50 The light goes off over Steve’s head right away. And I do think Michonne was 100% intentional there.
7:41 “We need to go back” is just like GoT’s “I don’t want it” from Jon Snow.
8:15 The future Rick and the CRM are talking about sounds a bit like the 4th Reich. Which it might be great for those inside, but to everyone else it’s pure hell.
16:48 This scene reminded Katie of the ending of Lost for a couple of those characters. It did very briefly feel like they both might not have made it out there.
18:24 Cue up the Barry White music. Some long overdue whoopee is about to be made.
18:58 I think Rick was nervous during the sex scene because his left hand had his “magic fingers” and he’s now extra nervous.
20:02 The Roomba would also need to be emptied every few runs too. So it’s hard to believe it could keep a place that clean for that long.
23:20 At this point, Rick reminds me of Red in Shawshank. He’s given up all hope and accepted his fate. And any hope of freedom just crushes that acceptance.
26:15 Man they just found the most perfect getaway car. That is so convenient.
27:40 Holy crap Lacey, that sounded just like Jon Snow… err I mean Rick.
Overall, I enjoyed this episode a lot. Katie said that they may have taken a bit of influence from The Last of Us and I see a bit of that. Perhaps TWD will get some love from the Emmy voters now. The performances here were phenomenal.
Best RUclipsren in the world I love this one's wo Liv
I like this ep the least since it was only made to get them nominations. Too forced