Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 12: 'Still' Review
I don't know Georgia's legal drinking age, but I motion that it be whatever age Beth is. The farmer's daughter had a hankering for some booze this week, and do you blame her? She lives in a world where the dudes who used to be members of One Direction are probably off somewhere skinning a cow carcass with their bare hands, so what else is a teenage girl to do? Get bombed, that's what. Beth wanted to imbibe her first adult beverage, and that's what set "Still" into motion.
Initially, this premise sounded like the stupidest thing ever, and for the first several minutes after Beth declared she needed a drink, I kept repeating to myself, "This is the stupidest thing ever." The Walking Dead's kid characters have the strangest urges, and suddenly craving liquor might be the weirdest one yet. But over the course of the hour, "Still" transformed the world's most dangerous beer run into a pretty amazing character study about the lives we live and the lives we lived. It was slow, it was quiet, and it ignored roughly 90 percent of the show's cast, but it was a jolt to the structure of the season—hell, maybe even the whole series—because it told an actual story. "Still" was the polar opposite of the ADD-suffering "Inmates" from two weeks ago, which covered four separate groups (Beth and Daryl included) in such a short amount of time that it didn't have anything to say.
