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Well, even though I was ready to throw in the towel on this show last week, I caved and watched this week . . . and now I'm definitely ready to throw in the towel. Don't get me wrong; it was a superior episode to the last few weeks, Melissa McBride was outstanding, and Brighton Sharbino might be the next Dakota Fanning.
The problem I have is with the subject matter. I don't feel comfortable with children being killed - innocent ones murdered, even - in movies and TV. It wasn't always acceptable - Jurassic Park took a fair bit of pre-release criticism because of a rumor that one of the kids would get eaten, for example; now we have Hunger Games, and no one seems to mind. Yes, the plot of this episode made sense for the setting, it was dramatically and thematically justified, and well done, but I don't think that story needed to be told. It's not doing anyone any good.
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