The Walking Dead Recap: It's Hard Out Here for the Living

If you haven't yet watched this Sunday's The Walking Dead finale, you should probably turn away from the screen now. Otherwise, read on.

This was a finale full of death, not unlike past finales of this show. Almost too many to count. There were a bunch of walkers meeting their deaths, Milton, Walker Milton, the Woodbury Soldiers, the walker versions of the Woodbury soldiers. The biggest shocker of all: Andrea met her doom.

Something bad was going to happen when the Governor left a handcuffed Andrea in a room with a dying Milton. Milton would turn and try to eat her dead. As the Governor said: "You kill or you die, or you die then you kill." While Milton did try to help Andre by leaving a wrench close to her feet, she wasn't fast enough to finish him off before he took a bite out of her. Of course, the audience wouldn't find this out until the end of the hour, when Rick, Michonne, and Daryl find Andrea close to turning. Michonne stays with her in the end while Andrea does the suicide deed herself. The scene was heart wrenching  Rick calling Andrea one of us, the season one callback quote about the safety, and Michonne crying throughout. It was a tough scene to get through.

In other news, the Governor is crazy. Well, we already knew that. But now we really know that. After a wildly unsuccessful attack of the prison, the Governor breaks. When some of his soldiers suggest that they just leave the prison be, the Governor snaps, pulls his gun up, and guns down almost everyone. Only one target survives, and she lives to bring the aforementioned prison trio into Woodbury. The Governor drives off with Martinez and another soldier, not to be seen for the rest of the episode. In related news: David Morrisey, aka the Governor, will officially be back for season 4 as a series regular. Where will he go? And what craziness will he be up to when next we see him?

Other notable aspects of the hour: Carl is starting to turn crazy and kills a teen soldier trying to surrender. Carol and Daryl have a teeny moment when she mentions Merle giving the group a chance. The poncho was back! Woodbury moves in with the prison. And probably a lot more I can't even think about right now.

Next season cannot come soon enough.