The Walking Dead Recap: This Sorrowful Life

Just from the title, you could tell this was going to be a heartwrenching episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead.In the graphic novels, This Sorrowful Life took place right before the big battle that finally ended the conflict between Rick Grimes’s group of survivors and their adversaries in Woodbury. During the story, Rick Grimes and Michonne found themselves captured and subject to various forms of physical abuse.Would this episode follow suit? Well, here’s how it went down…The episode begins with Rick having convened Hershel and Daryl, to let Daryl know about the Governor’s proposed deal to hand over Michonne. Rick has decided to try it, in the hopes of preventing a bloodbath, and Daryl asks if he plans on telling Michonne. Rick says no, that it has to be done today, and quietly. He says that they’ll tell her that they need to talk when she’s isolated from the rest of the group, who don’t know about any of this. Neither Daryl nor Hershel are pleased with the plan, and Hershel leaves.