Not merely the worst WD show I ever saw, perhaps the worst show I ever saw. Every influence and motive was so predictable to begin with, in addition to being mentioned or strongly hinted at in prior episodes, that watching it was stultifying. The lines were trite and hackneyed. We already knew they were insane degenerates.
Alpha is such a non-credible fool she should be ridiculed. My wife is a literary agent who is not a watcher of the show. She found it hard to believe Alpha was not a campy joke.
Used to love the show.

 

Pretty dark episode, which I like to see occasionally. Not as good as the premiere, but it definitely fleshed out Alpha and Beta a little more for me as people, and I now feel like a care a bit more about seeing them come into conflict with our familiar good guys.

8.2 for me.

 

With such a philosophy to share, Alpha should definitely leave some videotape in the forest, explaining how she can help people.

 

**** I hate the Whisperers. The only scene worth keeping in this was the sister sacrifice to save Alpha. Everything else was crap. And the dialogues between A and B are pure trash, it's as clownish as the garbage people's dialect. I know you can't expect a narrative about zombies to be realistic, but TWD usually manages to keep some decent level of realism - the Whisperers, on the other hand, are not only absolutely absurd, all of these characters are caricatural to a point they're ridiculous.

Edit: I gave it a 3/10 because I feel generous, but it's probably really a 2.

 

I was disappointed with this episode, and agree with @NakedCity on most of his post, though I didn't like the sisters' story at all, it was totally unrealistic to me.

There were some fantastic moments from Samantha Morton in the second half of the episode, in the present day story, that pulled up my score to a generous 5, but otherwise I was really unimpressed. They totally skirted round my most important questions about this group, and most of the very basic backstory they provided was just too contrived and didn't feel organic (forgive the pun) at all. It didn't satisfy my curiosity about why the hell such a big group of people would actually follow these two lunatics, and by the end of the episode I also decided I didn't even care any more. It's all just too weird, reaching garbage people levels. The only believable part was that some of them actually want out of this miserable existence and live like humans. Saving grace of the episode is Samantha Morton's awesomeness and Alpha's inner conflict over Lydia.

 

I guess if you are a reader of the comics then you could enjoy this this episode but i didn't enjoy it. We need a back story of Neegen.

 

I liked the flashbacks more than the current time of this episode. Honestly any time they show how the Whisperers live it makes them seem so much more unrealistic and silly. At least we finally heard a whisperer hint about leaving and wanting a normal life. The way these people live is just dumb and the less we focus on it the better.

Although I really like Samantha in this role. She's a lot of fun to watch.

 

I enjoyed getting a bit of back story on Alpha and Beta. Poor Lydia. It's amazing that she isn't even more broken or damaged than she is.
Samantha Morton is incredible. And Alpha has more dimensions to her than I had thought. She still has Lydia's bunny, for one. And what she built in the woods. It seems like she has an internal war going on inside her over her daughter.
I don't trust Gamma. I'm not sure why. Just the way she said certain things left me wondering if she's really on board with this Whisperer way or if she has another agenda? Maybe it's just me, but there's something off about her. A different kind of off than Alpha and Beta.
Interesting and not surprising to hear there are others in the group who want to leave now that they've seen how they could be living. This never occurred to them before? They must have come upon other working communities with all of the traveling that they do. I wonder what percentage feels that way and how that will affect things to come.
I suppose I'd give it a 7/8. Mostly because of Alpha. She's so disturbing. I know some find her to be a silly villain, but she scares the hell out of me.
Looking forward to next week when I assume they'll be some confrontation between the groups, now that they know their borders have been crossed.

 

94% so far on Rottentomatoes based on 17 reviews.

 

Oh I agree, not realistic at all. Alpha and Beta somehow managed to find a whole society of seriously retarded people to surround themselves with. Still, the scene where Gamma pushes her sister to feed the zombies was the only point in the episode where I felt they actually wrote something interesting. And it certainly built Gamma's character as another dangerous lunatic. Now they're three, surrounded by a huge bunch of intellectually challenged monkeys.

No, please no. No more backstory. We just need to follow the group and get rid of the Whisperers ASAP. Maybe get Maggie back to get them beheading her first.

 

Worse episode ever for me. . . Sick, twisted, and unsettling. Left me wondering how the Whispers could get so many followers. The only redeeming quality was that it's unbelievable comic side was almost equal to it's twistness.

 

My feelings on this episode can be summed up with: Sometimes it's better to keep things a mystery.

Alpha's backstory last year with her husband and Lydia at the start of the apocalypse was enough. This episode just peeled the onion too much and it didn't feel right to me. It also sapped a bit of the menacing nature of the Whisperers away. The whole Gamma thing wasn't needed and it weakened the group for me.

I assume their intention was to humanize the Whisperers a bit, but that doesn't really work in this story. We already know that deep down Alpha cares about Lydia anyway. She didn't kill her and then lied about it, so there was no need to see all of her angst. Just leave it on the backburner and move on.

Samantha Morton kept this episode afloat, otherwise it would've been a disaster.

 

Well, after watching the end that I accidentally fell asleep on Sunday night (I had a hard weekend, I wasn't bored lol).....
I give this episode a solid 8.5. WOW that last segment was amazing. Samantha Morton knocked it out of the park with her needed outward fit about losing her daughter. And Alpha and Beta's chemistry is so .....almost sexy creepy. LOL

 

He nailed it and they nail it.

 

I'm glad I didn't know ahead of time that the episode would be 100% whisperer because I may have put off watching it! I actually found myself pretty invested despite the fact... and i do think if they are going to be around for a while, it is important for us to have a more extensive back story on them. Otherwise they are just a bunch of weirdos in walker faces. Samantha Morton is killin' it with the creep factor.

I'm very curious why they won't show Beta's face.

Hmm... I'll give this one an 8! Not too shabby.