The Walking Dead Recap 3.9: “The Suicide King”
by Fashion and Entertainment Editor Joseph Lamour
The Walking Dead has returned! Huzzah! It takes quite a fan base for a TV show to come back in awards season. Competing with The Grammys, I made a night of channel flipping between my live-tweeting duties and undead counter programming: Bruno Mars crooning to zombies groaning; watching Rick’s sanity slip a little more to Jennifer Lopez’s slipping taste; witnessing Andrea’s desire for normalcy result in a huge case of denial (willfully ignoring fish tanks full of zombie heads?) to… nope. There’s really nothing like Andrea’s thought process.
Note: The Walking Dead Roundtable will be slightly different from now on: If you’ve read our Scandal roundtables, you’ll be familiar with the setup: each week, a Racialicious denizen will provide an episode summary the day after the newest episode airs. For The Walking Dead, that day will be Mondays. Then, on Friday a longer roundtable discussion of the episode is posted hosted by moi, Joe, accompanied by a circle of insightful fans.
So, now there will be two Walking Dead posts, or 2x the zombie fun.
Recap for The Walking Dead Episode 3.9: “The Suicide King” appears under the cut!
This mid-season premiere succeeded in doing two things:
- Illustrating the aftermath of the events of the mid-season finale which, among other things, destroyed the peaceful facade of Woodbury; and,
- Reminding the audience that most of the characters in The Walking Dead make terrible choices.
The mid-season finale’s rescue mission caused some survivor shuffling this episode. Daryl and Merle are together again, and both alive, thanks to Rick and Maggie saving the newly reunited brothers just in time from having to fight one another to the death (anyone living in Woodbury who doesn’t think twice about the Woodbury pseudo-Colosseum extreme zombie games–or The Governor’s now super hinky demeanor–is in complete denial.) After the rescue team gets out of Woodbury, everyone makes it clear to Merle that he is still (and always will be) unwelcome among the Atlanta survivors. Daryl won’t abandon Merle this time, so the Dixon boys are forced to break off from the group and start out on their own.
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