takesies backsies

— The one thing the show has always had for it was tension. People could die. And they did. Beloved characters, whom you’d spent entire seasons observing glumly wander the various arboreal environs of Georgia, could perish in a crimson shower of their most private innards. “Adorable old man” distilled, Hershel: dead. Rick’s best pal, the smouldering and cuckolder-ing Shane: dead. Rick’s wife Lori: so, so very dead, no takesies backsies.