Thanks for the clips and mini-reviews @Maxim . I appreciate that you also recap the moments you don't show.
I didn't realize the hot therapist stayed around this long. I suppose it makes sense to keep bringing him back to unwittingly cause chaos. About a year before this Another World had an evil female psychiatrist, plotting to get a man. There was something in the water in those years as the big screen and softcore movies loved that theme too.
The scene with Viki and Bo is moving, but I wish they'd brought up Viki's late husband, Joe. Like Sarah, he also "died," returned from the dead, and died for real. I guess they may have thought connecting to recently deceased Megan was more organic, especially as Sarah was her sister.
The Dorian on display here is who we'll be getting for a while to come, just in a much more outwardly neurotic and histrionic form once Elaine Princi is gone. I don't love when the show uses Dorian this way, but I know they need her to move the plot along. The moment where Viki nearly snaps is great.
Your mention of the "circus" with characters like Alex reminds me of how some fans talk about novelas, and the cores of them. They too are critical of some that have a "circus" atmosphere. Alex would probably fit into that type of show. Actually, much of OLTL at this time does remind me of them - Blair's schemes with Asa, Addie and the scissors, Clint/Viki/Sloan, Dorian, Luna and Death, Marty, Suede, etc. That high octane, operatic feel.
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THE WALKING DEAD - Episode Information and Ratings (Numbers are from Nielsen Media Research)
Live+SD Total Viewers = Live Viewers + Same Day DVR playback (Live + Same Day)
A18-49 = Live + SD Numbers
Season 1
Timeslot: Sunday at 10pm
Episode 1.1: "Days Gone Bye"
Air Date: October 31, 2010
Teleplay By: Frank Darabont
Directed By: Frank Darabont
Live+SD Total Viewers: 5.35 million
A18-49: 2.7/7
Episode 1.2: "Guts"
Air Date: November 7, 2010
Written By: Frank Darabont
Directed By: Michelle MacLaren
Live+SD Total Viewers: 4.71 million
A18-49: 2.5/7
Episode 1.3: "Tell It to the Frogs"
Air Date: November 14, 2010
Teleplay By: Charles H. Eglee & Jack LoGiudice & Frank Darabont
Story By: Charles H. Eglee & Jack LoGiudice
Directed By: Gwyneth Horder-Payton
Live+SD Total Viewers: 5.07 million
A18-49: 2.5/7
Episode 1.4: "Vatos"
Air Date: November 21, 2010
Written By: Robert Kirkman
Directed By: Johan Renck
Live+SD Total Viewers: 4.75 million
A18-49: 2.4/6
Episode 1.5: "Wildfire"
Air Date: November 28, 2010
Written By: Glenn Mazzara
Directed By: Ernest Dickerson
Live+SD Total Viewers: 5.56 million
A18-49: 2.8/7
Episode 1.6: "TS-19"
Air Date: December 5, 2010
Written By: Adam Fierro & Frank Darabont
Directed By: Guy Ferland
Live+SD Total Viewers: 5.97 million
A18-49: 3.0/8