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'The Same Boat' is the thirteenth episode of the sixth season of the post-apocalyptichorrortelevision seriesThe Walking Dead, which aired on AMC on March 13, 2016. The episode was written by Angela Kang and directed by Billy Gierhart.

This episode focuses on the characters of Carol (Melissa McBride) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan), who are captured by members of Negan's group known as the Saviors. It marks a turning point in an ongoing plot arc for Carol, one of the most ruthless members of Rick's (Andrew Lincoln) group, who is forced to re-examine herself as she is confronted by a remorseless killer named Paula (Alicia Witt).

Background[edit]

Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride) and Maggie Greene (Lauren Cohan) are survivors in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies, colloquially referred to as 'walkers,' 'growlers' or 'cold blooded.' Other members of their group, including Carol's close friend Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) and Maggie's devoted husband Glenn Rhee (Steven Yeun), were recently led by Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) to make a pre-emptive sneak-attack against another community of survivors known as the Saviors.^[1] Daryl had previously been threatened by a group of Saviors he was able to kill^[2] and Maggie negotiated a mercenary deal with the leader of the Hilltop, Gregory, to eliminate the Saviors and their leader, Negan.^[3] Using ruthless tactics such as killing people in their sleep and gunning-down those attempting to escape, the group slaughtered two dozen Saviors. Although one of Rick's most stalwart allies, Carol refused her assignment on the main attack and insisted on staying with a pregnant Maggie on the sidelines.^[1]

Before the apocalypse, Carol was a meek and battered housewife by abusive husband Ed. She continued to place her fate in the hands of others and in religious faith; however, her daughter Sophiawent missing. Carol then prayed for her daughter to be safely returned, but it is later revealed that Sophia turned into a walker and kept in the Greene Family Farm.^[4] She then gradually became more self-confident and capable as a survivor to the point where she began making life-or-death decisions for the group.^[5] Carol displayed a cunningness when dealing with others who might threaten her group, disguising herself as a walker,^[6] a suburban housewife,^[7] a member of an invading force,^[8] and has been coldly pragmatic in allowing allies to die to protect the interests of her core group.^[5][9][8] She was particularly merciless in dealing with a murderous group of feral survivors called the Wolves,^[8] but became shaken when she contributed to the death of the Wolves' leader only to realize that they shared the same goal: to protect her community's doctor.^[2] Carol has refused to discuss the incident while dwelling on the many lives she has taken.^[1]

Plot[edit]

At night, out in the woods, Carol (Melissa McBride) stops Maggie (Lauren Cohan) from joining the gun battle against the Saviors and, as they confront each other, are approached by a Savior named Donnie (Rus Blackwell). Carol shoots Donnie before she and Maggie are surrounded, surrendering to three other Saviors: Paula (Alicia Witt), Michelle (Jeananne Goossen), and Molly (Jill Jane Clements). As day breaks, Paula's group observe Daryl (Norman Reedus) capturing a Savior named Primo (Jimmy Gonzales), and, to stop the savage beating inflicted on him, Paula tells Rick (Andrew Lincoln), over a walkie-talkie, that they have captured Maggie and Carol. Rick tries to negotiate for a prisoner exchange, but, while Donnie needs the medical attention Primo could provide, Paula feels they are at a disadvantage against Rick's group and decides to withdraw.

While awaiting reinforcements and deciding their next move, Paula and her group bring Carol and Maggie to a former slaughterhouse, where the Saviors have cached supplies guarded by trapped walkers. Carol puts on an act of being frightened and weak-willed, while revealing that Maggie is pregnant in an effort to protect her. Donnie suffers excruciating nerve damage from a tourniquet and tries to physically take out his frustrations on Carol, but is pistol-whipped by Paula, who tells Donnie that she doesn't blame him and casually accepts the violence. Paula then tells Carol that she is willing to kill as many people as necessary to stay alive; Carol is horrified to see herself in Paula.

Over the walkie-talkie, Paula directs Rick to a location for a prisoner exchange, but believes he is being duplicitous and tracking them. Paula, Michelle, and Molly prepare to flee the moment their reinforcements arrive or to ambush Rick's group should he get to the slaughterhouse first. Left unguarded, Carol is able to free herself and Maggie, who insists on killing their captors. They use a zombified Donnie to ambush Molly, taking her handgun and beating her to death. Paula eventually catches them as they negotiate a gauntlet of walkers, but Carol gets the upper hand and wounds Paula as the walkers get loose. Maggie fights Michelle, who slices at her stomach with a knife; Carol then shoots Michelle dead. Paula then fights Carol, who impales her on a spike and leaves her to be devoured by a walker. Carol then takes Paula's radio and imitates Paula's voice to tell the Savior reinforcements to meet them on the kill floor. There Carol traps five Saviors, burning them alive with gasoline and a lit cigarette.

Killing the walkers on their way out, Maggie and Carol get to the entrance just as their own group arrive. Glenn (Steven Yeun) and Daryl embrace them. Carol admits to Daryl that she is not okay, while Maggie tells Glenn that she 'can't anymore.' With all of his friends dead, Primo tells Rick that he is Negan, but Rick, without hesitation, shoots the bound prisoner in the head as a stunned Carol looks on.

Production and writing[edit]

The slaughterhouse set was custom-built for filming.^[10]

Reception[edit]

Critical reception[edit]

The episode received critical acclaim, with the performances of Melissa McBride and Alicia Witt being singled out for praise. On Rotten Tomatoes, it holds a 97% with an average rating of 8.16 out of 10, based on 30 reviews. The critics' consensus reads: 'The Same Boat' takes a strong female focus by continuing Carol's arc while deepening viewer anticipation for Negan's ominous arrival.^[11]

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Matt Fowler from IGN gave it 9.3 out of 10 and praised McBride and Witt's performances and the episode's tension.^[12] Jeremy Egner of The New York Times commented positively on the complexity of Carol's division between ruse and real emotion, saying 'Like always, Carol did whatever necessary to survive and protect her cohorts, and did so in particularly brutal fashion [...] but she seems increasingly unable to avoid reckoning with the toll. 'Are you O.K.?' Daryl asked when he arrived. 'No,' she responded, and that was before Rick executed the remaining Savior right in front of her. It's going to take more than a few Hail Marys to make that image, among many others, go away.'^[13]

TVLine named Alicia Witt their 'Performer of the Week', praising her performance in the episode,^[14] while McBride was named 'Performer of the Week' by Collider.^[15]

Lenika Cruz and David Sims of The Atlantic called it the 'most overtly feminist episode thus far' and the episode 'was an elegantly written and executed bottle episode, designed largely to subvert the trope of the helpless woman'.^[16] Laura Prudom of Variety praised the episode and wrote that it is 'an incisive chamber piece that serves as a compelling analogue to last week's 'Not Tomorrow Yet' in its surprisingly deep examination of moral relativism, ably penned by Angela Kang and directed with claustrophobic intensity by Billy Gierhart.'^[17]

Ratings[edit]

The episode averaged a 6.0 rating in adults 18–49, with 12.53 million viewers overall.^[18]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcNicotero, Greg; Hoffman, Seth (March 6, 2016). 'Not Tomorrow Yet'. The Walking Dead. Season 6. Episode 77. AMC.
2. ^ ^abNicotero, Greg; Hoffman, Seth (February 14, 2016). 'No Way Out'. The Walking Dead. Season 6. Episode 76. AMC.
3. ^Satrazemis, Michael E.; Negrete, Matthew; Powell, Channing (February 28, 2016). 'Knots Untie'. The Walking Dead. Season 6. Episode 78. AMC.
4. ^MacLaren, Michelle; Gimple, Scott M. (November 27, 2011). 'Pretty Much Dead Already'. The Walking Dead. Season 2. Episode 13. AMC.
5. ^ ^abFerland, Guy; Kang, Angela (October 20, 2013). 'Infected'. The Walking Dead. Season 4. Episode 37. AMC.
6. ^Nicotero, Greg; Gimple, Scott M. (October 12, 2014). 'No Sanctuary'. The Walking Dead. Season 5. Episode 52. AMC.
7. ^Nicotero, Greg; Powell, Channing (March 1, 2015). 'Remember'. The Walking Dead. Season 5. Episode 63. AMC.
8. ^ ^abcLynch, Jennifer; Hoffman, Seth (October 18, 2015). 'JSS'. The Walking Dead. Season 6. Episode 69. AMC.
9. ^Nicotero, Greg; Gimple, Scott M.; Hoffman, Seth (March 29, 2015). 'Conquer'. The Walking Dead. Season 5. Episode 67. AMC.
10. ^Hardwick, Chris (host) (March 13, 2016). Talking Dead. Season 5. Episode 513. AMC.
11. ^'The Same Boat'. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
12. ^Fowler, Matt (March 13, 2016). 'The Walking Dead: 'The Same Boat' Review'. IGN. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
13. ^Egner, Jeremy (March 13, 2016). ''The Walking Dead' Season 6, Episode 13: Carol the Killer'. The New York Times. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
14. ^'Performer of the Week: Alicia Witt'. TVLine. March 19, 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
15. ^'Performer of the Week: Melissa McBride'. Collider. March 18, 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
16. ^Cruz, Lenika; Sims, David (March 13, 2016). 'The Walking Dead: Live from the Kill Floor'. The Atlantic. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
17. ^Prudom, Laura (March 13, 2016). ''The Walking Dead' Recap: 'The Same Boat' Asks Whether There Are Any Good Guys Left'. Variety. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
18. ^Porter, Rick (March 15, 2016). 'Sunday cable ratings: 'The Walking Dead' off slightly, 'Shameless' ticks up'. TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on March 17, 2016. Retrieved March 15, 2016.

External links[edit]

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• 'The Same Boat' at AMC
• 'The Same Boat' at IMDb
• 'The Same Boat' at TV.com

Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes and Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan. Gene Page/AMC

'It isn't just you,' Enid pleads with Sasha toward the beginning of this week's mid-season finale. You're not the only one who wants to kill Negan. You're not the only one with ideas of how to do it. So why are you formulating your own revenge plan, here in secret? Everyone wants what you want, and we can all help each other.

Enid's talking about Carl, whose stupid little stowaway act she can't tell Sasha about. But what she's saying is true of pretty much everyone in this episode: They've all got their individual plans, and they're all dumb solo ventures with little chance of success.

It's not often The Walking Dead reminds me of a sitcom, but now we're in a sitcom-y situation: If everyone would have just talked to each other, a lot of bad stuff could have been avoided. They might even have the makings of a good plan on their hands here. Rosita and Eugene have the means to make ammunition. Michonne has the reconnaissance. Carl and Jesus have found a stealthy way to get close to Negan. Even squirrely asshole Spencer is strategically worming his way into the Saviors' trust. Working together, they could have accomplished something at least.

Instead, all we get is half-formed ideas and half-cocked executions with terrible results. Carl, of course, ends up not only not killing Negan but bringing him home for dinner. Michonne has to just shoot her hostage and take the loss. Spencer overplays his hand and gets himself literally eviscerated. Rosita spends her one bullet on an (inexplicably) missed shot, ending up with Olivia dead and Eugene taken away.

And that seems to be the general point of the whole thing: Without the benefit of Rick's leadership, they're all just individual soldiers with poor aim. Its only when they come together under his guidance that things get done. As at the end of the episode, when Michonne finally convinces him it's time to fight back, and the galvanized team rides out to start the revolution. But they need him at the head to get that going. Without him, they're just all Rosita's single bullet.

And on that I call bullshit. It's dumb and inconsistent, for so many reasons. These are (mostly) extremely capable and smart people. They've made plans before, together, and followed through on them, when Rick was (for various reasons) out of commission. Yes, Rick's the leader, but he's not the smartest among them, or the best tactician, and he doesn't have a monopoly on getting people to work together.

But instead, without Rick, everyone decides it is their solo duty to murder Negan. Which brings us to the other impossible-to-swallow aspect of this episode: How the hell is Negan still alive? We know that Alexandria isn't the first community he's ground under the heel of his boot. And sure, the leaders of those communities may have been like Rick: weighing the possibility of effective resistance against the lives of their people, and deciding it isn't worth the risk. This is rational leadership when faced with an army the size of Negan's.

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But these last few episodes have been all about how nobody else is thinking rationally here. They're all bucking under the saddle, desperate to rebel, to exact revenge, not thinking about the consequences to anyone else. Carl could easily have shot Negan last week, or slashed him with his own straight razor this week. Rosita only missed her shot because Lucille apparently has magic bullet-deflecting powers. Hell, even Olivia could have poisoned his lemonade. You mean to tell me that out of all of the other communities Negan has tortured, not a single rebellious citizen has taken a shot that actually connected with the big bad guy? Is he invulnerable somehow? How is he still strutting around in the open like this?

Anyway. Rick is gone for most of this, since he's been off with Aaron finding their way across Lake Zombie to get supplies from a houseboat. (And being watched by a mysterious stranger in boots.) Among the goods they find a note: 'Congrats for Winning, but You Still Lose,' with a crude drawing of a middle finger. You'd think this would give them pause—wouldn't it seem to imply there's a booby trap, or a bomb, or the food is poisoned?—but instead they just load everything into their truck including, inexplicably, the note. Which the Saviors find among their tribute and assume was written by them, using it as an excuse to beat the living hell out of Aaron.

This, combined with the murder of Spencer and innocent Olivia, and especially after Negan characteristically suggests that Rick should thank him for his trouble, puts Rick in a particularly receptive mood when Michonne returns from her own abortive revenge mission and tells him it's time to fight. She's discovered there are even more Saviors than they imagined. But it doesn't matter; they're warriors and they will find a way to make war.

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TVLine named Alicia Witt their 'Performer of the Week', praising her performance in the episode,^[14] while McBride was named 'Performer of the Week' by Collider.^[15]

Lenika Cruz and David Sims of The Atlantic called it the 'most overtly feminist episode thus far' and the episode 'was an elegantly written and executed bottle episode, designed largely to subvert the trope of the helpless woman'.^[16] Laura Prudom of Variety praised the episode and wrote that it is 'an incisive chamber piece that serves as a compelling analogue to last week's 'Not Tomorrow Yet' in its surprisingly deep examination of moral relativism, ably penned by Angela Kang and directed with claustrophobic intensity by Billy Gierhart.'^[17]

Ratings[edit]

The episode averaged a 6.0 rating in adults 18–49, with 12.53 million viewers overall.^[18]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcNicotero, Greg; Hoffman, Seth (March 6, 2016). 'Not Tomorrow Yet'. The Walking Dead. Season 6. Episode 77. AMC.
2. ^ ^abNicotero, Greg; Hoffman, Seth (February 14, 2016). 'No Way Out'. The Walking Dead. Season 6. Episode 76. AMC.
3. ^Satrazemis, Michael E.; Negrete, Matthew; Powell, Channing (February 28, 2016). 'Knots Untie'. The Walking Dead. Season 6. Episode 78. AMC.
4. ^MacLaren, Michelle; Gimple, Scott M. (November 27, 2011). 'Pretty Much Dead Already'. The Walking Dead. Season 2. Episode 13. AMC.
5. ^ ^abFerland, Guy; Kang, Angela (October 20, 2013). 'Infected'. The Walking Dead. Season 4. Episode 37. AMC.
6. ^Nicotero, Greg; Gimple, Scott M. (October 12, 2014). 'No Sanctuary'. The Walking Dead. Season 5. Episode 52. AMC.
7. ^Nicotero, Greg; Powell, Channing (March 1, 2015). 'Remember'. The Walking Dead. Season 5. Episode 63. AMC.
8. ^ ^abcLynch, Jennifer; Hoffman, Seth (October 18, 2015). 'JSS'. The Walking Dead. Season 6. Episode 69. AMC.
9. ^Nicotero, Greg; Gimple, Scott M.; Hoffman, Seth (March 29, 2015). 'Conquer'. The Walking Dead. Season 5. Episode 67. AMC.
10. ^Hardwick, Chris (host) (March 13, 2016). Talking Dead. Season 5. Episode 513. AMC.
11. ^'The Same Boat'. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
12. ^Fowler, Matt (March 13, 2016). 'The Walking Dead: 'The Same Boat' Review'. IGN. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
13. ^Egner, Jeremy (March 13, 2016). ''The Walking Dead' Season 6, Episode 13: Carol the Killer'. The New York Times. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
14. ^'Performer of the Week: Alicia Witt'. TVLine. March 19, 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
15. ^'Performer of the Week: Melissa McBride'. Collider. March 18, 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
16. ^Cruz, Lenika; Sims, David (March 13, 2016). 'The Walking Dead: Live from the Kill Floor'. The Atlantic. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
17. ^Prudom, Laura (March 13, 2016). ''The Walking Dead' Recap: 'The Same Boat' Asks Whether There Are Any Good Guys Left'. Variety. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
18. ^Porter, Rick (March 15, 2016). 'Sunday cable ratings: 'The Walking Dead' off slightly, 'Shameless' ticks up'. TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on March 17, 2016. Retrieved March 15, 2016.

External links[edit]

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• 'The Same Boat' at AMC
• 'The Same Boat' at IMDb
• 'The Same Boat' at TV.com

Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes and Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan. Gene Page/AMC

'It isn't just you,' Enid pleads with Sasha toward the beginning of this week's mid-season finale. You're not the only one who wants to kill Negan. You're not the only one with ideas of how to do it. So why are you formulating your own revenge plan, here in secret? Everyone wants what you want, and we can all help each other.

Enid's talking about Carl, whose stupid little stowaway act she can't tell Sasha about. But what she's saying is true of pretty much everyone in this episode: They've all got their individual plans, and they're all dumb solo ventures with little chance of success.

It's not often The Walking Dead reminds me of a sitcom, but now we're in a sitcom-y situation: If everyone would have just talked to each other, a lot of bad stuff could have been avoided. They might even have the makings of a good plan on their hands here. Rosita and Eugene have the means to make ammunition. Michonne has the reconnaissance. Carl and Jesus have found a stealthy way to get close to Negan. Even squirrely asshole Spencer is strategically worming his way into the Saviors' trust. Working together, they could have accomplished something at least.

Instead, all we get is half-formed ideas and half-cocked executions with terrible results. Carl, of course, ends up not only not killing Negan but bringing him home for dinner. Michonne has to just shoot her hostage and take the loss. Spencer overplays his hand and gets himself literally eviscerated. Rosita spends her one bullet on an (inexplicably) missed shot, ending up with Olivia dead and Eugene taken away.

And that seems to be the general point of the whole thing: Without the benefit of Rick's leadership, they're all just individual soldiers with poor aim. Its only when they come together under his guidance that things get done. As at the end of the episode, when Michonne finally convinces him it's time to fight back, and the galvanized team rides out to start the revolution. But they need him at the head to get that going. Without him, they're just all Rosita's single bullet.

And on that I call bullshit. It's dumb and inconsistent, for so many reasons. These are (mostly) extremely capable and smart people. They've made plans before, together, and followed through on them, when Rick was (for various reasons) out of commission. Yes, Rick's the leader, but he's not the smartest among them, or the best tactician, and he doesn't have a monopoly on getting people to work together.

But instead, without Rick, everyone decides it is their solo duty to murder Negan. Which brings us to the other impossible-to-swallow aspect of this episode: How the hell is Negan still alive? We know that Alexandria isn't the first community he's ground under the heel of his boot. And sure, the leaders of those communities may have been like Rick: weighing the possibility of effective resistance against the lives of their people, and deciding it isn't worth the risk. This is rational leadership when faced with an army the size of Negan's.

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But these last few episodes have been all about how nobody else is thinking rationally here. They're all bucking under the saddle, desperate to rebel, to exact revenge, not thinking about the consequences to anyone else. Carl could easily have shot Negan last week, or slashed him with his own straight razor this week. Rosita only missed her shot because Lucille apparently has magic bullet-deflecting powers. Hell, even Olivia could have poisoned his lemonade. You mean to tell me that out of all of the other communities Negan has tortured, not a single rebellious citizen has taken a shot that actually connected with the big bad guy? Is he invulnerable somehow? How is he still strutting around in the open like this?

Anyway. Rick is gone for most of this, since he's been off with Aaron finding their way across Lake Zombie to get supplies from a houseboat. (And being watched by a mysterious stranger in boots.) Among the goods they find a note: 'Congrats for Winning, but You Still Lose,' with a crude drawing of a middle finger. You'd think this would give them pause—wouldn't it seem to imply there's a booby trap, or a bomb, or the food is poisoned?—but instead they just load everything into their truck including, inexplicably, the note. Which the Saviors find among their tribute and assume was written by them, using it as an excuse to beat the living hell out of Aaron.

This, combined with the murder of Spencer and innocent Olivia, and especially after Negan characteristically suggests that Rick should thank him for his trouble, puts Rick in a particularly receptive mood when Michonne returns from her own abortive revenge mission and tells him it's time to fight. She's discovered there are even more Saviors than they imagined. But it doesn't matter; they're warriors and they will find a way to make war.

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So they ride off for the Hilltop, where Maggie has all but taken control by sheer force of her capable attitude. Seems the people there love her for her midnight tractor exploits, and even more for doing it all while pregnant. So Gregory's dismissiveness only makes him less and less popular as Maggie's star rises. And Rick & co. are greeted at the Hilltop gates by an even more welcome surprise: Daryl, who used the key slipped under his door to escape from Sanctuary, stopping on the way to steal some of Dwight's clothes and trash his room a bit. On his way out of town, he runs into both Jesus and Negan's soldier Fat Joey, who he kills and relieves of his gun, which just happens to be Rick's beloved Colt Python.

So it's reunions all around, including man and his trusty pistol, and they stride off to make a real plan. Finally.

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The only ingredient that is missing now is the Kingdom, which Rick and friends don't yet know about. Neither Morgan or Carol is eager to make the necessary introductions, though. Morgan because his Buddhism-lite recommends an uneasy peace over all-out war, and Carol because she's still doing her best Greta Garbo impression, despite the fact that everyone including the king keeps on dropping by. The latest is Ezekiel's soldier Richard, who is convinced their détente with the Saviors is going to end any day now, and wants to make a preemptive strike.

He gets no support from Carol/Morgan. But clearly the other Alexandrians will feel differently, and we'll likely see a three-way alliance form when we come back from the break. Until February then, my bloodthirsty friends!