Couldn’t come up with a clever intro. Margaux and I talk The Walking Dead, but without skinny ties and cutesy hashtag suggestions.
Trevor: Rick shaved his beard. Zero stars, cancel this piece of shit.
Margaux: Ha! I literally wrote in my notes, “I wonder how much Trevor is crying over Rick shaving his beard.” I knew that scene wouldn’t end well for you, emotionally.
Trevor: As soon as I saw he was showering, I thought Oh fuck he’s gonna shave isn’t he? No one ever gets to keep their beards on TV. I kinda liked him going back to the season one look, though.
We’re getting ahead of ourselves, and I could talk about Andrew Lincoln’s beard all day. What’d you think of the episode, as a whole? I thought it was pretty damn good, shaving notwithstanding.
Margaux: I really enjoyed “Remember” even if it made me think of Harry Nilsson’s shitty ass song “Remember.” Yet, I digress. I’m glad we’re not getting Woodbury 2.0 at Alexandria but to that extent, it does almost seem like we traded a governor for a Congresswoman.
Trevor: Congressperson. Deanna Monroe seems a little more benign than the Governor, but that’s not a high bar to hurdle. There’s no evidence of a zombie fighting pit – yet – and her son is a total dickhead, but she herself seems pretty on the level. But you can tell Daryl is still having flashbacks to Woodbury; he’s behaving like a wild animal introduced into a home. Paranoid and uncertain. Like Glenn said, they were almost out there too long.
Margaux: Daryl’s non-fucks levels in this episode bordered on hilarious. He chooses to stand during his interview with Deanna, guts the possum he shot for “dinner” on the porch, and Carol has to threaten to hose him down in his sleep if he doesn’t take a damn shower soon. I’m not trying to take away from Norman Reedus’ performance last night, only he could pull off that convincing feral animal look in his eye and not make it seem dumb. But I think Daryl would have turned out that way regardless of a zombie apocalypse.
Trevor: Daryl carrying around the possum during his meeting with Deanna reminded me of Charlie bringing spaghetti to the movie theater on Sunny. “What’s your possum policy?” I think Daryl would have turned out even worse were it not for the apocalypse; he just would have been Merle 2.0.
I liked seeing how everyone acclimated to normalcy. Rick fucked up his whole life by shaving, but other than that he seems to be doing okay. He makes friends with Jessie (American Horror Story’s Alexandra Breckenridge), but not so much with her creepy husband. I don’t see that ending well. It’s hilarious that the citizens of Alexandria don’t yet know not to fuck with the Rick Grimes Good Time Gang, and I think they’re going to find out real soon. Aidan already did. Even if he wasn’t a self-admitted douchebag, I still would have hit him for being named Aidan.
Margaux: First off, Rick’s little exchange with Jessie’s ominous husband almost felt like it was dream, only because the cut directly following it was Rick jolting awake (not to mention that she doesn’t bring up the Hubs when she’s cutting Rick’s hair). Woof, Aidan, what a shithead! And a satisfying sight to see him laid out on his ass. It doesn’t matter that you told everyone off the bat you’re a prick, stringing up a walker because he “killed your friend” was one of the more immature things uttered on this show. And we listened to Laurie for three seasons. IT’S A ZOMBIE, BRUH. Jesus tapping dancing Christ.
Trevor: Aidan and his #2 Nicholas have been in Alexandria this entire time; I think capturing that zombie made them feel like badasses. They were very proud of their “pre-game ritual.” I don’t know how impressed they expected Glenn, Noah, and Tara to be; the three of them have killed more zombies than Aidan and Nicholas have even seen.
Margaux: Oh, I got the point the writers were making and it worked. It was upsetting to see two people so ignorant trying to show off to a group of people who’ve really, truly seen some shit.
Trevor: It was funny in its way, especially when Aidan tried to get in Glenn’s face. Glenn has no time for your shit, Aidan, you’re just the boss’s son! I liked Daryl immediately tackling Nicholas too. Everybody is starting to figure out what the fuck is up.
Margaux: Well, what the fuck is up? Deanna sides with Rick and Co about flattening her son and Nicholas, which – good, fuck those pukes. But what stuck out the most to me – besides the gun Rick stashed being gone – was Carol putting on this PTA Mom of the Year persona. “I’m a real people person!”, who also happens to be lethally deadly when need be. I loved Daryl’s making fun of her for dressing like she was about hand out orange slices at a soccer game, I could have watched that for another 20 minutes.
Trevor: Carol seriously undersold herself in her meeting with Deanna. I think if she was honest about being the RNC she would have scared Deanna too much.
Margaux: That’s so funny because I wrote in my notes, “don’t sell yourself short RNC!” If Deanna can handle Michonne rolling up with a fucking sword, I think she could of handled a little more truth from Carol but I’m sure she had her reasons that we may or may not find out about later.
On the other hand, Carl straight up pulls no punches and tell Deanna, “yeah, I killed my Mom. She would of liked this place.” Especially juxtaposed with Carl meeting the kids of Alexandria for the first time and he tells Rick later how he thinks they’re all “soft.” Never thought Carl would meet a group of kids that actually don’t make him look like the dipshit, for once.
Trevor: Seriously, that Enid is a little sulky bitch. I’m sure she and Carl will end up falling in love. I hope she doesn’t turn out to be a psycho like Lizzie. The Walking Dead doesn’t have a great track record with teenage girls.
Margaux: I think Enid being “from the outside,” like Carl, is supposed to explain away why she’s IRL zombie times Emily. Her and Carl falling for each other is obviously going to happen, if only so Carl can kill someone he loves, again. But I think the real question for now surrounding Enid is, what the shit is she doing in the woods by herself? Trying to “feel” or some such emo shit?
Trevor: I bet she’s the one who took Rick’s gun. Or, zombie army. One of the two. Probably the first one.
Margaux: So, at least for now, it’s hard to tell if Alexandria is everything the group has ever wanted or if this community is just another Woodbury or Terminus. But one thing is for sure, Rick will take this bitch if it comes down to it. Which is exciting, since we’ve seen the group go through so much and develop dubious morals along the way. It’s almost surprising because it was so hard to tell all episode what the group really thought of Alexandria. There’s a McMansion for everyone! Free haircuts! Video games! It does sound too good to be true but also, why not?
Trevor: Yeah, they’ve got time to make found art sculptures of owls, so they must be doing something right. Now I’m starting to fear for the Alexandrians; Rick & Co. are kinda fuckin crazy, so who knows how this will turn out. “Remember” got me very excited to find out, though.
Margaux: You brought up a good point last week about how Alexandria probably wouldn’t end up being the “problem” for the group – the group was going to be the problem. I think that’s where we’re headed.
Trevor: So I’ve upped my grade from zero stars to four stars, any objection?
Margaux: No objections from me, “Remember” was a solid four star episode.
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