The Walking Dead: Season 2, Episode 2 “Bloodletting” (B+)
This episode felt almost serene in the way that comes with finding a tranquil house in the middle of the woods that seems almost untouched amid a zombie apocalypse. Any chance to see Pruitt Taylor Vince on television is just fine by me, and his role as Otis was considerably less murderous than the types of parts Vince usually gets, though he does get familiarity points for managing to shoot a kid through an animal. Starting the episode off with Carl being told that Rick was shot via flashback was a clever way of reversing the situation to drive home the bond between father and son. Hershel had plenty of interesting things to say, talking about how the zombies might not be so bad, regarding them as just as another epidemic that’s bound to pass eventually. There’s something about riding in to save the day on horseback that’s just very powerful, and Maggie’s rescue of Andrea and subsequent spiriting away of Lori was a high point of the episode. Upon her arrival, Lori was not pleased with the state of things and with the veterinarian about to operate on her son, but she does seem hell-bent on keeping her family together. T-Dog’s delirium-fueled rantings back on the road were rather frightful and paranoid, and that’s the most we’ve heard him talk in a while. I like that this show doesn’t tie each episode up with a bow, ending instead with Otis and Shane trapped between a bunch of zombies and a hard place with no way out.
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