The Walking Dead: Season 4 (2013)
Average Rating: 8.2/10
Reviews Counted: 27
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 2
Consistently thrilling, with solid character development and enough gore to please grindhouse fans, this season of The Walking Dead continues to demonstrate why it's one of the best horror shows on television.
Average Rating: 8.4/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 2
Consistently thrilling, with solid character development and enough gore to please grindhouse fans, this season of The Walking Dead continues to demonstrate why it's one of the best horror shows on television.
Season Info
A horror drama following the survivors of an apocalyptic holocaust who are searching for a safe haven while being tracked and menaced by zombies. Adapted from a comic-book series.
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Network: AMC
Premiere Date: Oct 13, 2013
Cast
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Andrew Lincoln
Rick Grimes -
Laurie Holden
Andrea -
Steven Yeun
Glenn -
Chandler Riggs
Carl Grimes -
Norman Reedus
Daryl Dixon -
Melissa McBride
Carol -
Danai Jekesai Gurira
Michonne -
Scott Wilson
Hershel Greene -
Lauren Cohan
Maggie Greene -
David Morrissey
The Governor -
Emily Kinney
Beth Greene -
Sonequa Martin
Sasha -
Chad Coleman
Tyreese -
Chad L. Coleman
Tyreese
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Episodes
30 Days Without an Accident
The Season 4 opener finds Rick and the group aiming to maintain a close-to-ideal life at the prison.
Infected
A brand-new enemy has the group fighting to protect the life they've built at the prison.
Isolation
One group leaves the prison in search of supplies, while those who stay behind try to preserve what remains.
Indifference
Obstacles are encountered by the group members on a mission to find supplies. Meanwhile, conditions at the prison get worse.
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Critic Reviews for The Walking Dead: Season 4
The show is digging deeper into the characters, but not at the expense of Dead's trademark suspense.
The whole Walmart-gone-wrong scene was over-the-top and utterly ridiculous - but when's the last time The Walking Dead was that much fun?!!
Scenes simply tread water, resolving themselves one way or another for no really good reason. This creates an air of lost confidence that may or may not be intentional.
Being able to breathe, to allow characters to do more than just creatively eviscerate the skulls of zombies, is what makes it unique.
The Walking Dead hasn't changed enough, which causes my mind to wander, which usually means a show is losing its grip. And yet I can't not watch.
Cable's scariest and most popular series.
The Walking Dead - if unlikely to ever enjoy the street cred of something like Breaking Bad or Mad Men - clearly appears bigger than any of its expendable parts, and unlike those zombies, has a whole lot of life left in it.
The true exhilaration of The Walking Dead remains watching a new, fantastical history rise from the grave of the America we know.
Much of the premiere's pay off is subtle and very intricately delivered...
It's about the shivery thrills.
While the mood generally ranges from somber to grim to despairing, the show has its own brand of humor.
It's lethal and funny. Sometimes the new normal looks much like the old.
A decent first effort under Scott M. Gimple's new reign.
It may sound like travesty, but given the gore, the payoff that will make it worth bearing is a pot of gold in the form of a cure.
Dead reinforces its claim as TV's greatest horror drama by making us care so desperately about the characters' humanity.
I was more excited to see moaning monsters and calamity than any of the recurring characters. I'm not interested in them, I'm interested in what happens to them.
This was a strong start to the season with a great sense of balance between the characters.
The premiere feels a bit slow coming on the heels of last season's wild ride, but the second episode will leave you hungry for more.
Either way, this series is always filled with exciting potential. A fair start to what could be an exciting season (watch out for shower walkers!), it's good to see The Walking Dead Season 4 in action.
Fresh blood isn't only welcome and promising from a behind-the-scenes perspective; it can give the onscreen story a sense of vibrancy as well.
It felt like [the zombies] reached a new pitch of terrifying...
I don't want a zombie show with small, lyrical moments.
As a setup for the season, "30 Days Without An Accident" does a good job of throwing the alley-oop pass, it just wasn't the sharpest and most accurate of passes.
Despite the general calmness of the episode, the season premiere still managed to throw viewers right back into the constant intensity and disparity of the post-apocalyptic world.
The episode didn't disappoint with its usual over-the-top zombie fight scenes and interesting new twists and turns.
At its core, The Walking Dead is a show about survival, at its best when it explores the extremes that each of its character will go through to ensure they'll live another day.
The Walking Dead has something to appeal to everybody-assuming that everybody has the stomach for the occasional evisceration or two.
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