The Walking Dead Season 3 preview [View all]

[Baitball Blogger]

The third season of The Walking Dead starts on Sunday night —I will be recapping episodes on Mondays again—and it looks to be the darkest season yet. It’s also the first season that is free of Frank Darabont. Season two was really uneven and you could clearly see where the network’s ideas had been stitched together over the remains of Darabont’s plan. I hope that season three, with its consolidated leadership, goes more smoothly and everyone spends a lot less time standing around talking. Season two didn’t come together until Officer Rick and his band of survivors started getting away from Crazy Cannibal Herschel’s farm and exploring the surrounding area.

We return to find the survivors back on the move until they discover a prison where they decide to set up camp. The problem with season two was that it was so static, with Herschel’s farm being the dominant setting for all of the action. But the farm was too remote and so the characters just kept having the same conversations with themselves. It’s no coincidence that the best sequence of season two happened in town when Rick came up against other people. The prison ought to work out better than the farm since it brings the survivors into contact with Woodbury, a post-apocalyptic town run by The Governor (David Morrissey, The Hollow Crown).

And then of course there’s Michonne (Danai Gurira, Treme), the new female character introduced at the end of season two. With her katana sword and pet zombies, Michonne is a serious badass and dear God, please let her be the antidote to the “every woman is either useless or a bitch” problem the show has. I’m worried because the teasers make it clear she’ll spend a fair chunk of the season with Andrea, who is the suckiest character on the show bar none. I hope that Michonne can stand apart from Andrea’s awfulness in the same way that Rick doesn’t get dragged down by her, but it worries me to see Michonne sequestered away with just Andrea as her foil.

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