The Walking Dead- The Final Season Episode 4 Review
(Editor’s note: This review contains spoilers for Episode 3.) About 20 minutes into Take Us Back, the finality of it all truly starts to sink in. This is the last chance we get to ensure Clementine is going to be okay. These are the last lessons we teach A.J. This is the last ever episode of The Walking Dead. So, it’s rather appropriate that Take Us Back is very much about legacy, about taking everything Clementine’s learned–and you along with her–and wrapping it all up in a bow.
It’s not nearly as clean cut as that; it is The Walking Dead, of course, and the night gets plenty dark before the dawn. After Clem gets her bearings, and you get to decide what to do with Lilly, it’s a rather breathless race to keep ahead of the horde of walkers the Ericson kids have brought down on the immediate area. They’re everywhere, and in a particularly hostile mood after Lilly’s trigger-happy goons draw their attention. On top of that, weaponry is in short supply, which means there’s much more avoidance than shooting this time around. For what it’s worth, the shooting is simplified in this episode, with bow-and-arrow moments made much more forgiving and impa…
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