The best The Walking Dead characters were neglected in the woodwork for five episodes. Spend is the busiest – and most emotionally punching – episode since then, proving The Walking Dead should remember the rest of its crazy ensemble more often.
REVIEW AND RECAP OF THE WALKING DEAD SPEND:
Spoilers below. Continue to read this The Walking Dead ‘Spend’ review with that in mind.
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Deanna may be Alexandria’s social leader, but her husband, Reg, is the quiet architect. Noah always interested me. He’s the only older teenage character, he is shown to be both tough and vulnerable, and he’s sincere. A young gentlemen. When he asks Reg to train him as his successor, Reg recognizes Noah’s value and gives him a journal to record everything. Noah became my new favorite character.
Last week a kid – Sam Anderson – caught Carol sneaking guns out of lockup. She threatened to get him eaten alive by zombies if he didn’t stay quiet. Oddly, Sam comes to Carol, insists on getting cookies, and tries to become friends. Eventually Carol realizes what’s going on. Sam wants a gun to protect his mother. Carol wants Sam’s father executed for his abuse, and the fact Rick didn’t immediately say no worries me. Punishment must fit crimes, or Alexandria will devolve into a reign of terror.
When a herd of walkers get the drop on the site where Abraham and the Alexandrians are gathering construction materials, Abraham single-handedly rescues a surrounded woman against orders. To the foreman’s credit, he owns up to his lousy leadership when reporting to Deanna. In fact, he recommends Abraham be made the new foreman. Deanna muses on how she is putting yet another survivor in an authority position.
Aidan leads Eugene, Noah, Glenn, Tara, and one other Alexandrian to retrieve supplies needed to repair Alexandria’s electricity grid. It turns out leaving endangered friends for dead is Alexandria policy. Aidan’s impulsiveness leads to his own death. Tara is injured. Everyone else is pinned in a warehouse with zombies inside and out. Cowardly Eugene gets what is essentially a coming-of-age arc: he kills his first walker, extracts Tara, and distracts the zombies outside the warehouse. The Walking Dead always 
finds ingenious terrain predicaments. When trying to leave, Noah and the other Alexandrian get trapped in opposite sections of the revolving door. The Alexandrian panics and forces the door. His escape delivers Noah to the zombies inside the warehouse.
Gabriel becomes a nutcase because the writers want him to be and tells Deanna that all the other survivors are evil. Unfortunately, her son Aidan’s death might mean Deanna will listen to Gabriel while she is bereaved.
OTHER THE WALKING DEAD REVIEWS ON TV ESKIMO:
S5 E13 ‘Forget’ – The Survivors are the Real Threat to Alexandria
S5 E12 ‘Remember’ – Does Safety Make You Less Likely to Survive?
S5 E11 ‘The Distance’ – Rick is Paranoid, but Probably Right
S5 E10 ‘Them’ – The Survivors are on a Dry Road to Washington
S5 E9 ‘What Happened and What’s Going On’ – The Walking Dead Makes a Trippy Return
CHARACTERS AND CAST OF THE WALKING DEAD SPEND INCLUDE:
Rick Grimes – Andrew Lincoln (Love Actually, Heartbreaker, Gangster No. 1)
Carl Grimes – Chandler Riggs (Home Invasion, Mercy, Get Low)
Deanna Monroe – Tovah Feldshuh (Lady in the Water, Law & Order, Covert Affairs)
Reg Monroe – Steve Coulter (The Hunger Games, The Conjuring, Banshee)
Aidan Monroe – Daniel Bonjour (CSI: NY, Reach, The Back-Up Bride)
Jessie Anderson – Alexandra Breckenridge (American Horror Story, True Blood, Family Guy)
Pete Anderson – Corey Brill (CSI: Miami, The Normal Heart, Perception)
Sam Anderson – Major Dodson Williams (American Horror Story, Revolution, Left Behind)
Enid – Katelyn Nacon (Too Many Cooks, Second Chances, Resurrection)
Aaron – Ross Marquand (The Congregation, A Lonely Place for Dying, Amira & Sam)
Noah – Tyler James Williams (Dear White People, Go On, Let it Shine)
Michonne – Danai Gurira (The Visitor, Mother of George, Ghostown)
Glenn Rhee – Steven Yeun (I Origins, Carpe Millenium, Crysis)
Daryl Dixon – Norman Reedus (The Boondock Saints, The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, Blade II)
Maggie Greene – Lauren Cohan (Archer, The Vampire Diaries, Cassanova)
Carol Peletier – Melissa McBride (The Mist, Pirates of Silicon Valley, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys)
Sgt. Abraham Ford – Michael Cudlitz (The Negotiator, Surrogates, Running Scared)
Sasha Williams – Sonequa Martin-Green (Once Upon a Time, The Good Wife, Toe to Toe)
Eugene Porter – Josh McDermitt (Retired at 35, Life in Color, Mad Men)
Rosita Espinosa – Christian Serratos (Twilight, 7500, The Secret Life of the American Teenager)
Tara Chambler – Alanna Masterson (Peach Plum Pear, First Day, The Young and the Restless)
Father Gabriel Stokes – Seth Gilliam (The Wire, Still Alice, Courage Under Fire)
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