This episode is an absolute gem...perhaps my favourite episode full stop. When the walker dodges Jesus and daryl can't distract the heard... absolute chills!

Jesus' character was wasted in the show. The actor, Tom Payne, actually learned martial arts for his character, but they barely used him so he asked to be killed off. In the comics, he played a much bigger role in All Out War and even attacked and subdued Negan. In the show, he was basically just Maggie's errand boy.

God I loved Aaron in the last 3 seasons...him and Gabriel deserve a spin-off.

This time right after Rick left and we are getting established to this new world with our older characters and the whisperers slowly being introduced is so underrated!

It’s unfortunate that this was the last great mid season finale in the show. Angela Kang had her back against the wall with Andy and Lauren leaving and she absolutely killed it with this episode, as well as this season with the beginning of the Whisperer arc. It sucks she couldn’t keep up this momentum for the rest of the series though.

I’m glad I went back to the show. This episode and the one with Connie in the feral house are two great examples of horror done right.

I remember watching this episode when it came out, and even though I read the comics at that point it was still suspenseful and I loved the way they revealed the whisperers. RIP Jesus 😭😭

This episode is one of the scariest episodes of The Walking Dead. Even though I knew who and what the Whisperers were, the show had it’s very own way in introducing them, even making the comic-audience interested in this episode. Especially the scene with Eugene explaining that the walkers are going in circles around the cabin he was hiding in, made me and many more people watching the scene feel uneasy. And the fact that our characters thought the walkers were evolving, because they have never been confronted with such a situation, is also a thing that the show-audience would find the most sensible answer to this paranormality.

This episode, the Grove, and the ep when beta infiltrates Alexandria were the most frightening episodes (to me), with Connie having the most terrifying individual scenes due to the nature of them being *mostly silent

I had to rewind the Jesus death because of how shocking his death was. This episode was a low key gem. Awesome video on it

I also really love the intriguing symbolism of a person nicknamed Jesus being murdered in a cemetery by a person pretending to be resurrected dead!

I was extremely skeptical of the show when Carl was unceremoniously killed off and all but convinced that it was done for when Rick left. Even though the series undeniably suffered from losing its two most pivotal characters, I was really impressed by just how much I enjoyed Seasons 9-11.

I’ll be honest. I really liked season 9. I feel like it is a very underrated season.

Also want to mention that fact that this would realistically happen of the world was like that. People would end up going crazy and start wearing zombie faces in order to survive and start a new cult.

I honestly love your breakdowns of the walking dead so much!! It provides so much in depth thought of the story and highlights the change of tone throughout the whole series.

A shame it went downhill after this again. The Whisperers revealed themselves too soon and after this episode and Jesus' death they were never as scary again. It became action over horror and all the mystery and terror of the Whisperers just went out the window as so many red shirts threw themselves at the protagonists who killed them with ease and they massively underutilised the very tactic that made them so horrifying in the comics: hiding among walkers and the suspense and fear of knowing any walker could be a Whisperer. The characters figured that out pretty quickly and straight away learned they're just people wearing walker skin masks and they look so obvious it's like a child dressing up as a ghost. This episode and the penultimate episode of the season are the only ones that really captured how unpredictable, dangerous, and terrifying the Whisperers are, and that feeling of the unknown, being stalked and that they could jump out and kill you at any time like Viet Cong hiding in the jungle

Even tho I HATE what they did with Jesus character, his death is pretty cool. I love the fog and sudden switch of the Whisperer.

They should've not discovered the truth about the whisperers until a couple of episodes. It was a good wave to ride and would've made the discovery of the true nature of the whisperers that much more important.

I have a personal theory that the walkers in Fear TWD that there are variants because of how frequently the plot points/tense moments revolve around walkers being agile or actually going up stairs. Idk if there are any other layers to this but rewatching it with this in mind gives it a whole new vibe

Definitely one of my favorites of post-Rick Walking Dead, and the reveal of the Whisperers was so incredible.

Season 9 really brought the show back for me. I still stuck with the show when watching seasons 7 and 8 when they aired but between the slow pacing, walkers being less of a threat and instead background noise and tools in the All Out War storyline, and a number of characters leaving like Glenn, Dwight, and Carl, along with learning that Rick was going to leave, during those 2 seasons I was close to being done with the show. Thankfully season 9 made a comeback and is one of my favorite seasons of the show.

I loved this episode. The impending doom and building suspense was done really well. What a great introduction to the whisperers.

The tension was clearly because everyone wanted to take violent revenge on Negan and Michonne followed Ricks wishes an keeps him in a cell. In that 6 missing yrs. There could b other issues that contributes but the main issue has gotta b Negan.

Every time you say “waiting for Jesus to come back” 😂

Losing Jesus just sucked! He was one of my favorites. With that said, this episode was terrific!

ima be a broken record but man this time skip would’ve been a great way to justify the Chandler being older than comic Carl. The Carl Judith Dynamic could’ve been the heart of the show.

I think it would be so cool if you made a “what if” series… I’ve seen someone do it with breaking bad, where you make a chain somewhere and see how the story would have changed… like what if Shane killed Rick… or what if Carol never lost Sophie etc… and then you say how you think things would have played out Idk i could just listen to you talk about twd all day 😂

The moment the whisperer dodges Jesus was one of the scariest moments I've ever seen in any media.

Id love to see your take on the next episode, Adaptation, it was one of the most important moments for Negan and continued to build on the whisperers.

I think considering rick not being in it past episode 5 and just the fact it's the 9th season it's surprising how good season 9 is,it's one of my favourites along with season 2

I absolutely loved season 9, i think it doesn't get the loge it deserves. It's my 3rd favorite season behind 6 & 4. Super good, and compared to the 2 seasons prior to it, it was a pretty great pick up in quality. It also brought such an interesting, like you said medieval vibe to it, which i loved.

I hadn't read the comics when this episode aired so I legit thought the walkers were evolving and I loved that. The reveal that it was people underneath made it even more terrifying.

This is one of the best Mid-Season Finales of the Show. Definitely in my Top 5. Part of me misses having to wait a couple of months in between the Mid-Season Finale and Premiere.

One of my favorite episodes for sure! I suggested you cover this episode awhile ago and I’m thrilled to see it come to life

I love the background music you choose for these videos, it doesn’t take away from the narration but ads to the atmosphere of it. I appreciate the content you share with us so much ✨

You gotta do a breakdown when Connie is in the haunted house with the canibals

cant wait bro love you and your videos :)

This was the last episode I remember watching. I was so excited for the idea of actual variant walkers only to be crushed to find out it’s just regular ass people

The reason season 9 had the biggest viewer drop off was because fans got tired of the plot being the same over and over and refusing to progress the plot due to milking the show. The main reason people was intrigued is because we thought they would've progress to the point seeing different walkers and what caused the virus. But 11 seasons in, nothing is answered, and to make it worse every season was the same, the group had to fight a dictator. Its hard enough to watch 11 seasons of anything, but 11 seasons of the samething it becomes extremely boring and predictable. It also shows the dispect to the fans by only thinking about milking your loyal fans

Love these type of videos bro. Would absolutely love to see you cover the the two governor backstory episodes in szn 4. He’s one of my fav characters and would like to know ur thoughts on his character’s decisions and thoughts

sitting here 20 minutes early with coffee being made, speaker on and home alone. i’m ready and excited to see your thoughts on this episode!

Yes this is when my faith was restored in TWD! But I knew it was the whisperers cause I read the comic & when Eugene said it I’m like oh. But it’s really is a stretch to say the walkers can evolve when we saw their brain activity in season 1 & over time rotting wouldn’t have it more active. They should’ve went with something like the virus mutates & newly turned walkers are more smart & strong. But yea I was hurt when we lost Jesus & like you said him thinking that his friends & family are doomed.

Amazing video, keep it up!

been waiting for this one

Season 3 has always been my favorite because the prison arc is when I was introduced to the show so it has a nostalgic place in my heart of that feeling of waiting for a brand new episode every Sunday (and a TWD marathon every weekend just to lead into the new episode...good times) But in terms of storytelling and pacing, Season 9 absolutely takes the cake imo. Ironically, taking Rick out of the equation was a good move. Even tho characters like Michonne and Daryl were still main leads with lots of screen time, the show was able to let newer or different characters get more screen time like Judith, Magna's group, Henry and Lydia, Alpha and the Whisperers while other main side characters like Jesus, Aaron, Eugine, Gabriel and Rosita all got something to do this season Plus the Whisperers were just a breath of fresh air and provided such a tense atmosphere for the second half of the season. Every episode would have us asking "are those walkers or whisperers?" What a time to be a TWD fan tbh. Angela Kang replacing Scott Gimple as showrunner was absolutely the best choice they could've made behind the scenes!

this ep really showed you the world at its most scariest season 9 underrated af

i love this episode so much and i already know this is gonna be a w video

Please cover coda! One of the most underrated mid season finales.

Just when I was pissed about Rick leaving, and I thought I'd stop watching after, they did that! Dear lord, that freaked me out. Hell of a start to a really cool story arc.

I started watching this show 2020 when pandemic hit. Around season 3 my coworker asked if I saw the whisperers yet and I said no and by the time I got to season 9 I had forgetten about that. So when I started hearing weird whispers I started to remember about my coworker and I got legit scared for the first time in SEASONS with this show. It’s because my co worker made me excited/scared already and the whispering was creepy and new to the show

Can you do character analysis on the governor? Or a analysis on Rick and Hershel’s relationship? Also have you ever watched Sons of anarchy? If you have could you do some videos about that show? And more Game of Thrones stuff

Nick From The Original Fear the Walking Dead Series was the First Whisperer. Back in S2, He Was Stranded In Mexico and was chased by a Mexican Drug Group. He Ran further into the desert and finds a Horde and Used His "Blood" Technique. He Talks With Walkers and Walks with Them, leads them to the group that attacked him and also found a Cult that Thinks that same way he does. If U Watch Season 2 Of Fear, U May Get "Spiritual/Mystery" Vibes, The Way Mexicans And Nick Himself See Those Walkers Made Me Realise something. And That is, The Idea of Walkers Evolving and Regaining Their Human Knowledge is 80% Possible. First Off, In S9 - 10, When Someone Is Leading A Walker (Like a Whisperer), He/She can make The Horde Talk just by Speaking. Also The whole World Beyond French Vaccine Incident Forced me to create a theory (or maybe it isn't a Theory) and that is, The Vaccine was An Immune System Booster, since this is The Walking Dead we're talking about, People acted dumb and injected it into a walker. This IG boosted the Walker's Immune System and turned him into a Runner, an Evolved Intelligent and Fast Walker. Also In The New Rebooted Version Of Fear the Walking Dead, Walkers Acted Intelligent When Exposed To Radiaton. Alicia Made A Theory that Walkers Still have Their Human Intelligence. Radiation Worked As A vaccine for a While In S8 as seen with Dwight Using it on his Bitten Son. Also don't forget Variant Walkers In S1 - 3 Of TWD And FTWD. S1 Of Both Shows Showed Kinda Intelligent Walkers S2 Did The Same But S3, Remember that scene with Merle And The Gang Escaping Woodbury?, S3 Of Fear, Episode 1, The Mexican Walkers Sneaked Up On Troy's Militia Episode 3, When Daniel Was Praying, The Walker Stared At Him with Confusion but then God Hits It With His Lightning. Episode 12, When Troy led The Walkers To Ranch And Alicia Had To Defend It, Walkers Were Literally Crawling and Pushing The RVs with their Mights, Grabbing People Aggressively. Episode 13, With Nick And Troy Tried To Led The Horde Way, They Accidentally Damaged Their Truck and had to Go To the Broken Helicopter, A Walker Grabbed Nick's Grenade Launcher. (I didn't watch S7 because it was shitty) but some episodes in S7 showed a Walker Smacking Someone's Gun. For Me, My theory with the Wildfire Virus are Simple. 1. Some Countries Wanted To Resurrect Their Dead Soldiers so tehy probably Made a Virus That Would "Revive" it (it could be from Earth, Space, Oceans), Obviously it didn't work cause it only revived the Brainstem and Gaved It's hosts an Unending Hunger For Flesh. 2. The CRM Created This Thing so that they could rule the world but it obviously backfired.

So horrible to lose Jesus. This episode did make TWD scary again.

Going to rewatch it now friend

Great episode

finaly a video of my favourite episode. wish i never knew about the whisperers or saw any trailers, would have enjoyed the show so much more

I had so much hope for this episode, I was so excited to see zombie evolution, whisperers are cool and all but actual variant walker possibilities would have been limitless.

I think Jesus didn't need to die. But I can't even have an opinion on the season finale, it was literally the most shocking thing ever, despite me knowing that those incels from the hill top were probably gonna be there, every single foreshadowing of the next head and then it being shown literally took me OFF GUARD. I can't even decide if them being killed was a good or bad decision.

Thanks for doing TWD content man

The scariest is the Ferals that Connie and Virgil find on "On the Inside" would love a vid on that

Alright, you've convinced me. Marathon time.

Loved this video, perfectly describes this period of the walking dead. I started watching the walking dead 8 months ago on Christmas Eve, so I was really new to the whole twd universe, knew nothing about the comics etc. I remember watching this episode and being so excited for the evolution/variant path that they seemed to be taking, when it turned out to be humans behind masks, I'm not gonna lie, it definitely did disappoint me a little bit. Obviously my opinion changed as the season went on, and I ended up liking the whole whisperer story too but I still always thought that the evolution/variant walker story would be so cool also. I still think this, hopefully we get some variant walker action in the new spin offs. I hope it is a larger thing and not just a side thing that they shrug off again because I genuinely think evolution/variant walkers has so much potential. Anyway, great video!

I remember watching this live and seeing Jesus die was a top 10 maybe even a top 5 most shocking moment on the entire show for me

I really enjoyed this episode, it was probably one of my last favorites. The atmosphere was perfect. Totally spooky. Only downfall would be Henry.. that kid was unbearable. I couldn’t stand him.

That CW cast comment had me in tears 😭🤣 and then when you casually was just like “back on the cw” I was rollin even harder 😭😭

Yeah this ep was one of my favorite eps even this late in the show

you should do the episode with connie and vergil in the house with the savage people

The only flaw was Jesus's death if you are a comic fan but still a good episode.

I thought season 9 was a great way to restart the show. I felt it was almost a second peak. Yes Rick left but we knew he’d be back. The whispers came in, and we got Negan’s redemption. We were eating good

that walker that looks up at the start is the same one that kills jesus. u can also see lydia in the start of the episode

Being released on my birthday

I agree

my parents stopped watching around the began line up and i got them to watch the show again just for the satisfaction of watching their reaction to this episode/the whisperers

Please do 'We Are the End of the World'! Always thought this was the scariest episode in the second half of the show.

one of my fav episodes

I watched Evolution today and bam I found this video. Awesome day!

Episode 15 the calm before is also brilliant

Variant walkers in TWD make no sense how do zombies that are actively decomposing develop muscle mass and have their brains evolve?

another amazing video, much love from canada!

The way i actually got freaked out when the walkers were hunting down Rosita and Eugene

Both you and Wow Such Gaming make an episode each about this exact same thing within hours of each other? WHAT?

Jesus’s death was placed perfectly, but I’m still mad we didn’t get a relationship between him and Aaron. I haven’t read the comics (I’ve seen recaps of certain issues and I’ve read comic character wiki pages so I know basic differences between the two mediums) but one thing I do know is that Jesus and Aaron got together. We were ROBBED

Easily my favourite episode of the show

1:50 got me dead😂

They need to do this alot more when introducing new villians they need a big character to die

You should do an analysis of 11x6 it’s one of the scariest episodes of the show imo

I love he makes fun of the cw while also starting a 15 season long cw show

During this time in the show, i Was honestly dissapointed they revealed what the whisperers were so early, i wanted, lore wise for the characters to continue thinking the ealkers were evolving, AND irl, for those who knew nothing about the comics, to also think they were evolving

Back on the CW - gold!

This video was well done per usual. I could’ve watched your video instead of the actual episode which I found kinda of boring and hard to watch. It just had highlights, which you just covered.

Can you please PLEASE do a recap of Squeeze and how it was perhaps the single most annoying episode of the entire series? How Carol somehow acted brand new and kept making terrible decisions that put everyone at risk over and over and over. She was like the Alexandrians when we first encountered them, except they were sheltered and had an excuse

I wish TWD ended differently. Never read the comics but Carl didn’t die in it. That’s enough for me. 😂 I wish they did have evolved walkers since that was the first season. Who else remembers them fast walk/run? To adapt to that a decade later would’ve made all the characters rethink about fighting them. And then the multiple time jumps! Rick is like 65 if he comes back.

Once I fought through the previous 2 or 3 seasons I was pleased with season 9. I tought the show would be In trouble with Rick gone. But to be honest I really enjoyed the 9th 10th and 11th season. I did not miss Rick and the show was In my opinion so good I could binge the show once again. Saying that I'm shore the show would of been good with Rick. But i feel the other cast got to do more and the new bunch that meets Judith In the wood all did good for me. Now iv never seen Fear or world beyond. And as a fan I wish Amc started the spin off with dead city. Iv no problem watching the story and us finding out more from original people rather than new show with new cast. Iv see alot of people not liking fear so I'll not watch it. I usually look at recaps so I'll know if something important happens. But one thing I'd like to see in future is more of the original cast In spin off people like Judith and people like Aaron and stuff. I feel I'd like to see them in the new Daryl show if he returns to the USA after France and I would love to see Rick and Daryl meet up again because they are like brothers

It’s ALWWYS a good day when thrifty boy uploads , when we getting the thrifty podcast because my god I’d listen too it every week

They ripped off the 13th Warrior with the whole "omg the good guys think the bad guys are magical creatures!!!" and then the movie builds up to finally reveal that they aren't magical creatures, but 13th Warrior did it better because the queen at the end was still weird as hell and still seemed super natural even though you just thought that notion was dispelled.

Love the comic series, gave up on the show about a decade ago and I am just absolutely digging going through your videos yo. Great content for even someone who didn't keep up with the show🫡

Evolved walkers were actually in Season 11 01.. i watched it yesterday and was like wtf! When they sneak into an army base and the walkers are sleeping, as soon as the scene started i googled since when can walkers sleep and since Season 11 01. Was cool but never saw it again

“The CW cast” ahahaha 🤣

I am a biologist who loves this show. It is impossible for walkers to evolve. They night change, but they cant evolve.

Amazing mid-season finale!