SPOILER ALERT FOR EPISODE 4 (MOST RECENT EPISODE).
This last episode was brutal. I have to say, I give AMC a lot of props for lulling the audience (well, me anyway

) so artfully into thinking "okay, so these are the main characters they're going to focus on in this thing" and then killing a couple of them off as cavalierly as they did. I really appreciate a show that genuinely surprises the viewer that way. Good stuff. I'm still a little surprised they killed off the wife beater already. Of course, no question he deserved to die by horde o' zombies, but the most interesting part of the show thus far is the living having to get over their interpersonal issues and work together against the dead, and I thought he was a good antagonist to help fuel that never-ending struggle. Does anyone else think Merle might have had something to do with the zombie invasion of the camp? Like maybe he somehow lured them there and cut the warning lines they had on the ground to avenge the whole abandoning him on the roof thing? I don't know, just thinking out loud here....