With this Sunday’s episode of The Walking Dead, the show returned to form. After last week’s Beth-centric “Slabtown” in which Emily Kinney was the only cast member to actually have lines, “Self Help” took us back to the multi-character structure that comprised the majority of the first four seasons. Of course, with a bloated general ensemble that could really use a zombie horde or two to trim the cast, it was inevitable that “Self Help” would only feature certain characters and highlight certain relationships.
Unfortunately, while the episode as a whole was neither bad nor negligible, the ensemble of “Self Help” happened to be comprised of a group of characters that failed to spark together.
