This episode was WAAAAYYYYY better than the last couple of episodes. I was expecting them to draw that drama out across at least another episode. It actually dealt with something interesting, ie mental illness in the apocalypse and what happens when there aren't meds or hospital infrastructure. There have been way less people in the groups highlighted dealing with a lack of meds from chronic illness than would happen in real life. Fuck I watched a few seasons of Goldrush and every other motherfucker is addicted to oxycontin.
*Oblique Spoliers*
At first I was all "Do it - Do it now before someone else dies!" and I was half expecting it to end there while covered in blood with a split second decision but then it calmed down and got all "Just look at the flowers" and it got very Old Yeller and was actually pretty moving all things considered.
It's certainly the least dumb episode in ages.
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