

There’s more tension than just the three having their weird zombie adventure. However, when their methods to distract the herd keep failing, it only gets weirder, and the tension grows. It’s strange, but not so strange that they’re immediately suspicious of it. The three characters talk about the strangeness, but it’s not overwhelming, and it isn’t hammered home too hard. With every reappearance of Daryl, Aaron, and Jesus, things just get a little bit worse for them, and the herd gets a little more ominous. It starts off just looking weird, and the characters get to have conversations about the oddity of the behavior, and get to speculate about it while it just continues to grow and grow. The threat level of the herd grows as the episode deepens. That’s a credit to David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick’s script.
