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  • Today I take you through the horrors found inside Edison's Apothecary & Boutique in The Walking Dead season 6 episode 14.
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    -Chapters-
    0:00 - Intro
    0:51 - Laying the Scene out
    4:08 - Piecing the Story Together
    6:41 - Final Thoughts
    #thewalkingdead #twd #rickgrimes
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  • @soundsonsaturn2872
    @soundsonsaturn2872 Před měsícem +928

    I remember also in season 2 when T-Dog is looking for supplies in cars, he finds cigarettes. When he turns his head to look at the backseat, he sees a baby car seat with blood all over it. Hinting that a walker got to the baby.

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  Před měsícem +248

      Little details like that are what seriously bring the horror into this franchise. I wish they did more scenes like that later on

    • @sean-or1nc
      @sean-or1nc Před měsícem +62

      What was also a noticeable presence in the first season and such with frank in control,, there was the presence of God. It was on people's minds, and then there was also a sense of guided fate and good deeds done return good things among kinda attitude..
      I bet you amc corporate megatyranny told frank to cut out that god and hope crap. .. then amc does the preacher and desecrates the divine potential symbolism driving the arc of the story subtle. Woke
      ​@@Swell-Films

    • @JStack
      @JStack Před měsícem +26

      @@Swell-Filmsit's a nice blend of showing the brutality without just being pain/torture corn

    • @icrywhenisleep2130
      @icrywhenisleep2130 Před měsícem +35

      We barely see kids because the walkers would've literally eaten every bit of flesh off the bones also most likely including the brain and also there's still big cities that managed to survive as seen in world beyond and the ones who live

    • @IronBrig4
      @IronBrig4 Před měsícem +42

      There's also that scene in Alexandria, where Rick is leading a group through a zombie horde. The kid, Sam, sees a zombie child limping along as if some of its tendons and ligaments had been severed. That's what makes Sam freak out.

  • @brookiie
    @brookiie Před měsícem +521

    what makes it worse imo is the blood and gore implies after she turned she ate her recently drowned child and she probably had no idea she would do that

    • @arabela5092
      @arabela5092 Před 22 dny +5

      Yikes that might be true fr

    • @elxr9434
      @elxr9434 Před 21 dnem +11

      The baby probably just decayed in the water

    • @LadyLunarella
      @LadyLunarella Před 16 dny +1

      @@elxr9434 can blood still pour out or leak out the body after being strangled? cuz if so that would explain the blood in the bath unless it was a...possible banging the childs head in? T-T

    • @elxr9434
      @elxr9434 Před 16 dny +3

      @@LadyLunarella no you'd need crazy force to draw blood from strangulation

    • @93harry
      @93harry Před 15 dny +19

      The child would have turned and bitten her under the water. Making even more tragic after sacrificing her child to survive and becoming infected despite what she did.

  • @jjkilhij9531
    @jjkilhij9531 Před měsícem +778

    The dark environmental storytelling is definitely something that I wish didn’t become so sparse later into the franchise, this little sequence in 6x14 was always pretty unsettling to see

    • @557deadpool
      @557deadpool Před měsícem +10

      I do because I'd rather it be sparse and maintain the shock value than happen too often and be numb to it

    • @tiabeaniesemotionalsupportdmon
      @tiabeaniesemotionalsupportdmon Před měsícem +11

      We have that awful story Maggie tells to her group while they’re in that subway train car. That’s S11 E2, and then we have those cannibal people, also in S 11, who attack and try to kill/eat Connie and Virgil. That’s some of the darkest storytelling of the entire series, imo.

  • @vibey4649
    @vibey4649 Před měsícem +446

    Alternative theory; she could've gotten bit while fighting off the walkers, and chose to mercy her child before she turned. Descending into madness either; before his death, from the infection and or her inevitable death, or after, with her child finally hushed forever.

    • @stareatme9983
      @stareatme9983 Před měsícem +15

      Absolutely what most likely happened

    • @selalewow
      @selalewow Před měsícem +4

      wonder why the toddler didn't turn though? There are often bodies found posed and if everyone was infected then they should have turned.

    • @41052
      @41052 Před měsícem +3

      ⁠@@selalewowmaybe the baby eventually got out , or she got to the brain and it wouldn’t come back

    • @RaisedxFist
      @RaisedxFist Před měsícem +1

      This is most likely what went down.

    • @GraveyardMaiden
      @GraveyardMaiden Před měsícem

      Probably from shaken baby syndrome ​@@selalewow

  • @Rosie-yt8nd
    @Rosie-yt8nd Před měsícem +356

    the mother could have either shaken the child too hard or (my theory) put her hand over the child's mouth and accidentally suffocated her. it doesnt have to be intentional, children are so fragile that one moment of anger can be too much. the hush hush scratches could be her going mad afterwards, like morgan did. pre-death seems unlikely to me. she would be busy trying to shush the child, rather than leave it crying while she scratches. post-death all alone guilt-ridden scratching seems more likely to me

    • @SpadeDraco
      @SpadeDraco Před měsícem +22

      The fact that what was left of the kid was fully submerged in the sink implies drowning. Can't see anything else the writers would have been going for with that.
      Agree on the scratches/writing probably being a post death thing though.

    • @selalewow
      @selalewow Před měsícem +4

      @@SpadeDraco Unless she did kill it, it turned and she smashed it in the sink, then filled it with water to cover it up.

    • @bamaboy5746
      @bamaboy5746 Před měsícem +2

      ​​@@selalewowno she clearly drowned it when turning, and when turned ate the body

    • @DustinDonald-cz9ot
      @DustinDonald-cz9ot Před měsícem +5

      It is like an episode of M.A.S.H where they were trapped in a bus with a bunch of refugees and were hiding from an enemy patrol and a child wouldn't stop crying so the mother smothered her child to death. The main character had a break from reality making him think it was a chicken the woman killed cause he couldn't deal with the trauma of it.

    • @Estelle2007
      @Estelle2007 Před měsícem +2

      @@DustinDonald-cz9ot Sadly, evolution has never given infants of our species the instinct to be quiet in times of danger. It makes the baby trait kind of ironic in a way.

  • @merlin8046
    @merlin8046 Před měsícem +128

    The example of the opposite from "show don't tell", where a character tells the darkest imo story is when Maggie talks about her encounter with a family of father and sons who kept mutilated, abused, pregnant women in their house and tried to lure her there because women the kept had died from what they've done to them.
    This story lives rent free in my memory since I've heard it

    • @nicole1528
      @nicole1528 Před měsícem

      i'm intrigued. what episode is this?

    • @merlin8046
      @merlin8046 Před měsícem +1

      @@nicole1528 I don't remember the exact episode unfortunately. It's early in season 11 when the group goes through the underground metro and Negan is leading the way because he's the only one who knows the city. It's episode one, two or three.

    • @Dealerofdeath1998
      @Dealerofdeath1998 Před měsícem +3

      ​​@@nicole1528 season 11 episode 2 acheron part 2

    • @mtnmama2291
      @mtnmama2291 Před měsícem +4

      I didnt think they were pregnant. I remembered the story as...a man with a shopping buggy that he was struggling to move. He offered her n Herschel food in exchange for help. A fight ensued Maggie found a cloth with chloroform on it he planned to knock her out. Bc the guy was a cannibal. They were fattening up the legless armless bodies to eat them. Bc Maggie says something like "when I saw them mutulated with big round bellies I knew there was food" she then found the stash & she n Herschel left n had supplies. Ill have to go back n watvh it again bc now you have me wondering...

    • @merlin8046
      @merlin8046 Před měsícem +12

      @@mtnmama2291 no, she said she knew there was food because there were multiple men in good condition. She said there was something moving inside women's belly's

  • @wolfguywerewolfchannel2099
    @wolfguywerewolfchannel2099 Před měsícem +150

    In Season 11 Episode 2, we also had those scenes with Daryl in the abandoned tunnels where he found that dollar with messages and photos of two kids as well as a dead guy with a suitcase handcuffed to his severed arm and walkers that were formerly homeless survivors

    • @samleen
      @samleen Před měsícem +20

      Also the picture of the 2 kids has the girl holding a toy bunny. Daryl later finds that same bunny with the bagged corpses

    • @tuxyanngoan7321
      @tuxyanngoan7321 Před 26 dny +5

      Archeron i hope he does this one too

  • @Indyawillis85
    @Indyawillis85 Před měsícem +243

    The darkest story for me in the whole Walking Dead universe is the story Maggie told on that subway car about those men who were keeping women chained up and cutting off their body parts and r*ping/impregnating them. Ugh, I could never forget that story no matter how much time has passed.

    • @alesundgresiek8389
      @alesundgresiek8389 Před měsícem +1

      Jesus, was this Season 11 or 4?

    • @boymanchan417
      @boymanchan417 Před měsícem +1

      @@alesundgresiek8389 11 or 10

    • @tiabeaniesemotionalsupportdmon
      @tiabeaniesemotionalsupportdmon Před měsícem +4

      @@alesundgresiek8389 it was S11 E2

    • @tiabeaniesemotionalsupportdmon
      @tiabeaniesemotionalsupportdmon Před měsícem +19

      This entire story Maggie tells to her group in the subway train car really reminds me of the very end of that movie Bone Tomahawk… OMFG!!😱😳

    • @Estelle2007
      @Estelle2007 Před měsícem +19

      Yeah. And she said they were deformed men. What made that part creepy was the thought of that going on long before the world fell apart. I like when movies and shows acknowledge that things don't have to exist in a genre bubble. If the zombie apocalypse happened, weird people like from Wrong Turn or Hills Have Eyes could still be out there.

  • @BubblesBulldog
    @BubblesBulldog Před měsícem +282

    I think the mom got trapped in the store on breakout day. The walkers that are decomposed like she is are the really old ones that happened at the beginning. She was probably the owner so she had a play pen to keep her baby in while she worked. Also had some toys and books to keep the baby occupied. The photographs looked like they were the type you would haves at your desk at work of family members. I don’t think she lasted a long time. She wouldn’t be able to run because of her cast plus the baby crying. I think they lasted a few days. Maybe a week. Dehydration wouldn’t have been an issue because there was the sink. I think she had been more psychologically motivated to kill her baby than a supply issue. I think she realized her child would die either by Walker or by eventual starvation so she did it as a mercy. After doing so she had a psychotic break similar to Morgan and that’s when she wrote hush hush hush on the walls. I also think she may have been bitten by her own child because everybody turns. She wouldn’t know that because at first everyone thought you had to be bitten. So she kills the baby, it reanimates and she pulls it out of the sink because she regrets killing it in the first place. She then gets bit by the baby. Maybe she then drops it back into the sink and some type of head trauma happens at some point from the time of death until some point before Denice finds the scene. It could’ve been an active Walker for years but would be unable to lift itself from the sink with the physical body of an infant. Then the mother gets the fever and turns into a Walker herself. During the fever may also be when she wrote on the walls.

    • @all9472
      @all9472 Před měsícem +28

      Agree especially since this is a clinic what food would she have at best a packed lunch and the baby probably worse baby would've died in a week max she can't produce milk because starvation so she chose less suffering vs more suffering

    • @lexxwippel
      @lexxwippel Před měsícem +4

      Fuck. U SAID IT!!!

    • @filthy_frankreborn4722
      @filthy_frankreborn4722 Před měsícem

      I ain't reading allat

    • @medical-cyanide1526
      @medical-cyanide1526 Před měsícem +10

      I completely understand why, for multiple reason they don’t but I wish more zombie media depicted turned kids. Could be seen as a cheap pull at the heart strings maybe. But if done right I think a director/story writer could convey a multitude of emotions and grief

    • @pyerack
      @pyerack Před 26 dny +12

      Now that you mention it, it sounds more likely she killed it by accident by suffocation when trying to get the kid to quiet down, then likely got bit when it turned and tried killing her walker-fied child with the sink.
      I still think she had a gun though, she likely tried to "oof" herself but must've aimed too low and blew her jaw off only to die to the injury.

  • @SalviAlmighty
    @SalviAlmighty Před měsícem +87

    This environmental storytelling froze my blood over when I first saw it..
    Small notes on your explanation : the words on the wall looks like they were scrawled with a red crayon, and not carved in blood. It's way too clean. The woman's jaw injury makes it look like she might have tried to off herself with a shotgun, but there was no such weapon around her from what I recall. The rest of her body looks in pretty good condition, other than the decaying.
    Additional question : If the kid drowned, wouldn't he have turned? Unless she later had to put him down for good, explaining the amount of bloodied water...

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  Před měsícem +14

      Great observations.
      Its hard to say what really happened to the child, they leave it up to you to fill in the gaps, I think it’s possible they did turn, and are possibly still in the sink in a dormant state, like the lurkers that don’t move until stimulated by something.

    • @tiabeaniesemotionalsupportdmon
      @tiabeaniesemotionalsupportdmon Před měsícem +8

      Yeah, definitely scribbled with a red crayon. There’s not dried liquid on the letters like there would be if it was blood. You can see the scribbled lines. So many different things could’ve happened to this poor mom and bebe. Horrifying to truly think about.

  • @kingdevin_
    @kingdevin_ Před měsícem +93

    I’m not going to lie, I completely forgot about this part of the episode. I enjoyed your explanation on this topic. I guess I was so focused on the main story I didn’t pay attention to this but I will always reflect more on it now

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  Před měsícem +8

      Early walking dead is absolutely filled with little details and background stories like this, it makes for a really fun re watch if you’re searching for it

  • @harryvass9018
    @harryvass9018 Před měsícem +87

    Give her props she managed to kill a bunch of walkers by herself with a broken leg
    Id love to see more videos talking about the environmentel stories of the world of the walking deas by the way

  • @draggonsgate
    @draggonsgate Před měsícem +35

    My interpretation of this was always she got bit while fending off the walker and knowing their fate, chose to kill her child instead of having him eaten. Problem is... If the child was drowned, as is suggested, he still would've come back. If she somehow damaged his brain as to not let that happen, then why is he in the sink? That's the interesting thing about TWD/WDU... Fans are so into the shows, they scrutinize every detail to make sense of things and continuity. For me, I'm still kinda pissed Rick has never, ever mentioned Wayne Dunlap after he said he would. Another detail was "solved" by my grandson. When he turned 11, we started letting him watch, and I would re-watch with him to catch him up to speed. One conversation I mentioned that if they were the only survivors, where were all the walkers? Atlanta is a huge city and should have boatloads of walkers. He said "they're stuck in their houses, they can't open doors"... LOL... out of the mouths of babes 🙂

  • @rdvangogh
    @rdvangogh Před měsícem +97

    When Tales came out I was really hoping to see the lead up to this scene, since the first time I saw it I just can’t shake it. There’s a similar storyline in the MASH tv show and it’s so heartbreaking. Thank you for this video, your stuff is so great ❤

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  Před měsícem +5

      Hey thanks so much! Tales imo was the greatest missed opportunity in this franchise, so many ideas unexplored.

    • @kapowpig3623
      @kapowpig3623 Před měsícem +3

      Mash really came out of no where with the feelings sometimes

    • @MercedesDiane
      @MercedesDiane Před měsícem +7

      That scene from MASH always brings me to tears, especially because he kept insisting it was a chicken and had to be snapped back to reality. :(

    • @tiabeaniesemotionalsupportdmon
      @tiabeaniesemotionalsupportdmon Před měsícem +1

      @@MercedesDiane Omg, I remember seeing that MASH episode as a kid and it still messes my head up. incredibly sad!!

    • @DustinDonald-cz9ot
      @DustinDonald-cz9ot Před měsícem +1

      I mentioned that episode up above didn't think anyone else would of made the connection glad to see I was wrong, such a tragic episode.

  • @gamerwolffang2722
    @gamerwolffang2722 Před měsícem +45

    When I saw the sink, I gasp in horror of what she had done, it's so horrifyingly sad

  • @Molly-ve6ul
    @Molly-ve6ul Před 24 dny +10

    It’s possible that the water had ramped up decomp of the child and there was nothing left to turn after a while
    You decompose faster submerged in water that’s why the water was pure gore, the child had decomposed to his skeletal structure and there was nothing to be reanimated anymore

  • @dousc7579
    @dousc7579 Před měsícem +38

    I wonder.
    If the mother just drowned the child then it would have turned in that sink. It could just be dormant in there. Still.

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  Před měsícem +16

      My thoughts exactly…. Too weak to crawl out.

  • @edbouhl3100
    @edbouhl3100 Před měsícem +19

    ‘… and lack of sleep …’ Very good point

  • @brianplyer2831
    @brianplyer2831 Před měsícem +46

    A video regarding Randal and his group and who they were would be interesting, I always thought they were the bandits that invaded terminus and trapped Gareth his brother and mom in the train cars.

    • @gerardmcquade9102
      @gerardmcquade9102 Před měsícem +1

      i hope they expand on that and make that actually true on this new tales show they have discussed

    • @schrubber98
      @schrubber98 Před měsícem +3

      Interesting connection!!! Pr they could have evolved into the claimers 👀

    • @Gibbypastrami
      @Gibbypastrami Před měsícem

      Oooooooo that’s a neat idea

  • @jasonflanders2997
    @jasonflanders2997 Před měsícem +40

    Do more of these scene breakdowns they get you thinking

  • @gemmadunandoras3986
    @gemmadunandoras3986 Před měsícem +5

    There's also, as Sir Pterry called it, The Dreadful Algebra of Necessity.
    It's possible the mother was injured and, while running out of food or injured further, knew her toddler would starve to death or get torn apart by walkers, so she...saved him from a worse fate. Then found there was nothing for her to do but wait and starve, suffering the same fate she'd just saved her baby from enduring.
    That kind of thing could steal the last of any sanity/hope; hearing the cries of your long dead baby, the wailing moans of the dead and the gunshots & and screams from those about to join the ever growing shuffling horde...
    Just a thought.

  • @pyerack
    @pyerack Před 26 dny +4

    It also looks like she tried to (weapon that shoots spicy rocks) herself but aimed too low and removed her lower jaw, likely succumbing to that injury.

  • @thelittlebosniaexperience8181

    I always took this as TWD’s version of “itchy tasty” from Resident Evil. I think she got bit and was slowly turning. She scratched the walls with some of the last bits of her human mind, the only words she had left, just like the dude writing itchy tasty even after he was pretty much already gone

  • @allin3940
    @allin3940 Před měsícem +56

    1. Another possibility is Mom was bitten clearing the walkers and ended her child’s life because there was no one else to care for her.
    2.Mom could have definitely snapped and killed baby. She could have had post partum combined with the traumatization of the outbreak. Being alone with a young unsettled child, trying to survive and in constant danger would be too much for anyone.

  • @therampantbee6980
    @therampantbee6980 Před měsícem +19

    Man you should make more videos like this looking into the background stories from all across the series!

  • @ninzietche
    @ninzietche Před měsícem +2

    The walking dead took "Show don't tell" to a whole other level.

  • @anonymousanonym450
    @anonymousanonym450 Před 29 dny +5

    old walking dead was so good

  • @peachbunnys01
    @peachbunnys01 Před měsícem

    The amazing story telling in the beginning of this show was one of my favorite things, I always loved trying to put these stories together and always hoped for some kinda stories , comic or tales episode on them. These videos are amazing man

  • @frinkleboop9963
    @frinkleboop9963 Před měsícem +27

    Hey Ty I gotta give you massive props to that warning in the beginning. Children being hurt is something I can’t cope with so the warning is very appreciated. Love the vids otherwise!

    • @mister3611
      @mister3611 Před měsícem +3

      Its a tv show, AKA not real

    • @nixonszombie
      @nixonszombie Před měsícem +1

      It's obviously real fucking life.

    • @iziahdelorme8698
      @iziahdelorme8698 Před měsícem

      It’s a show about the end of the world, PLENTY of kids died throughout the shows run

    • @countchompula1896
      @countchompula1896 Před měsícem +2

      @@iziahdelorme8698 Sophia
      Randal
      Jimmy
      Lizzie
      Mika
      Sam
      Ron
      Carl
      Henry
      All dead, kids have it rough in the apocalypse. 😓

    • @iziahdelorme8698
      @iziahdelorme8698 Před 23 dny

      @@countchompula1896 don’t get me started on telltale either

  • @brandocomando797
    @brandocomando797 Před měsícem +2

    Wow. I always wondered what they were trying to tell us but I never put much thought into it. Thanks man.

  • @peterwong8028
    @peterwong8028 Před měsícem +16

    You should do the one michoone stumbles upon when they get to Noah's community. The kids dead in their beds and the mom in the chair.

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  Před měsícem +1

      Great suggestion

    • @jjkilhij9531
      @jjkilhij9531 Před měsícem +3

      @@Swell-Filmsif I’m not mistaken, I think that was just the work of The Wolves, though outside of the No Way Out vid I don’t think you’ve talked about that group yet so that could be interesting 💯

  • @riccardoromano6619
    @riccardoromano6619 Před měsícem +7

    Pls make more of these analysis! For example the zombie soldiers in that sort of circus in season 7

  • @aaronpasetti
    @aaronpasetti Před měsícem +8

    Great job on the video Ty Swell and this episode scared me and I felt so bad for the kid. It’s just sad what parents did to their kids during the outbreak. It makes me more sad that the mother drown his kid in a sink! People say “TWD isn’t dark” well it is.

    • @DominionSorcerer
      @DominionSorcerer Před měsícem +2

      Considering the kid didn't turn it's pretty likely she did something even _darker_ than just drowning him.

    • @aaronpasetti
      @aaronpasetti Před měsícem

      @@DominionSorcerer I mean the kid was crying

    • @Tms0211
      @Tms0211 Před měsícem

      @@aaronpasettiI think he’s right there was gore in the sink too and the body must have torn apart or eaten. I think the mom was about to turn and drowned her baby first.

    • @aaronpasetti
      @aaronpasetti Před měsícem

      @@Tms0211 I mean we could get a back story or something. It’s just creepy

  • @Skiibagg
    @Skiibagg Před měsícem +4

    Was waiting for this one, dude your channel brings me much to joy yo be able to watch and discuss TWD and all that encapsulates it, than you TY 🙏🏼

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  Před měsícem +1

      Hey thanks so much for the kind words :)

  • @RaisedxFist
    @RaisedxFist Před měsícem +1

    I absolutely love dark stories like this one.
    Keep it coming !!!

  • @lordaniolist
    @lordaniolist Před 11 dny +2

    I think the "Hush" words are in crayon
    she also looks like she could be melted a little? not sure if she used any acid or anything, but it could be decay

  • @ghoullovinbutch
    @ghoullovinbutch Před měsícem +6

    The toddler shoe made me think of the old 'six word novel,' "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." Idky but it made me think of that.

  • @vhrane7360
    @vhrane7360 Před měsícem +7

    Such a wonderful video, I’ve gained so much more appreciation for TWD because of you.

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  Před měsícem

      Hey thanks so much for watching! :)

  • @xxooxx1466
    @xxooxx1466 Před měsícem +2

    As a father of a toddler, rewatching this scene lit on a different level.

  • @LibraryLateFees
    @LibraryLateFees Před měsícem +2

    Oh hell yeah, a new Ty Swell vid. I don't remember this bit, either. This will be a fun way to relax and unwind -

  • @Nyghtking
    @Nyghtking Před měsícem +2

    This reminds me of arguably the darkest thing you can find in fallout 3.
    There's a collapsed train tunnel, and the only reason you can get into this pocket is because over time one of the wall of the tunnel collapsed.
    Inside you'll find a little pocket, a section of the tunnel next to a train, with the paths both behind it and and in front of it sealed off.
    Inside this pocket you'll find the following things:
    The skeleton of a man, the skeleton of a woman in a dress, a bottle of whisky, a knife, and a baby stroller.
    It's implied when the bombs fell that these people became trapped there when the tunnel collapsed on their train, sealing them in to that pocket.
    Anything other then that is speculation.

  • @springa1930
    @springa1930 Před měsícem +4

    i think she got bite in her attempt to clear the place th died from her injury then woke up and ate her kid.

  • @tiffanysullivan5454
    @tiffanysullivan5454 Před měsícem +2

    Another good one is the very 1st episode, when Rick is searching for gas and finds the horse that takes him to Atlanta - the deceased farmer with the shotgun who killed his wife and himself, and wrote "God Forgive Us" on the wall.

  • @AlfieVsLion
    @AlfieVsLion Před měsícem +4

    Well earned like my brother , keep the bangers coming , it’s great to see you getting the attention your content deserves 🇮🇪✌️

  • @shauni8806
    @shauni8806 Před měsícem

    I love your content! Awesome job!

  • @RapidSteve
    @RapidSteve Před měsícem

    good video idea. I love a lot of post apocolypse settings purely because of stuff like this. The stories that arent mentioned

  • @shannon4948
    @shannon4948 Před měsícem

    You really do an excellent job. Thanks

  • @gokublack072
    @gokublack072 Před měsícem

    loving the channel man👍

  • @markjennens1209
    @markjennens1209 Před měsícem

    Superb, more of this please !

  • @VvodeAn
    @VvodeAn Před 6 dny

    Enviromental storytelling is fuckin great, i love it when playing dead space and actively seek those stories

  • @Kimberly-cx9uv
    @Kimberly-cx9uv Před 18 dny

    Last i watched twd when i was a child, like i didn't really connect and care the deeper meanings of stuff like that, so interesting, might give the earlier seasons another shot sometime soon

  • @miasmum001
    @miasmum001 Před měsícem +1

    Please do more of these .. new sub here xx

  • @DeadInsideUniverse
    @DeadInsideUniverse Před 29 dny

    I agree that this was likely the most disturbing scene in the initial series. It made me sick to my stomach and so sad at the same time.

  • @davidradcliffe955
    @davidradcliffe955 Před měsícem +1

    Another aspect that would had drove her mad is the drown baby would had turned into a walker too, luckily for the audience water decompression made the baby a skeleton faster

  • @user-ki2cx4kr9i
    @user-ki2cx4kr9i Před měsícem +4

    TY swell can you cover the beheaded soldiers next please

  • @teresarothaar6225
    @teresarothaar6225 Před měsícem +11

    Perhaps after the murder, the mother took poison and killed herself. She was in a drug store.
    This would be a great TWD Origins story.

  • @gerardmcquade9102
    @gerardmcquade9102 Před měsícem +2

    there's also the one at the farm house that Rick got the horse from

  • @ulfruss5636
    @ulfruss5636 Před měsícem

    Environmental storytelling is some of the best in my opinion. Movies, series and games benefit some much from a little thoughtful set dressing that makes the world feel that little bit bigger while not necessarily impacting the actual story at all.

  • @Mangoboi699
    @Mangoboi699 Před měsícem +4

    The one the gov had come across was the most disturbing imho. The dead man witha rifle, two decapitated bodies with signs. and the woman and the two walker heads inside. “Its best not to think about it” - Brian
    These horrific scenes are eye drawing. But also Incredibly sorrowful. But they lay it out so perfectly you dont even have to think what happened.. you just know by the signs. Either it being litterally. Or Physically in the remains of the fallen. The one with the decapitated soldiers you can feel the anger and hatred the man had for these men. Trusting someone enough to let them in your own home because of a uniform and it be so wrongfully abused. The justification come across so Beautifully. Yet erie.

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  Před měsícem

      I’m planning on covering this story next. Such an eerie scene.

  • @raven1462
    @raven1462 Před 27 dny

    The idea of kids going through this awful death damn.

  • @tiabeaniesemotionalsupportdmon

    I’d like to know the backstory on how those cannibal people who lived in that house of horrors devolved into what they eventually became. The episode was in S11 and it was titled ‘On the Inside’.
    I’d also love a backstory into what happened to the Vatos gang from S1. Did the Governor’s people raid them? Did another group? Or maybe one of the sick/elderly people simply died and attacked the others. What a nightmare situation! It would have gotten out of hand so quickly, with so many disabled people unable to really get away from walkers. Very sad.
    And, finally, I’d like to know what happened with that boat full of walkers that the group finds at Oceanside and practices their skills/training on while putting them down.

  • @countchompula1896
    @countchompula1896 Před měsícem

    That’s the fate of every walker that’s not put down. Slowly wither away into a skeleton and fall apart.

  • @jiggycalzone8585
    @jiggycalzone8585 Před měsícem

    Please do more of these detailed breakdowns. I cant recall if the melted walkers in Atlanta had an explanation given

  • @DarkArkham2
    @DarkArkham2 Před měsícem +8

    Oh fuck yes, this type of video is right up my alley! I love the background stories. Like when Carol sees the shadow of 3 walkers and its implied to be a mother & her two children because the building they were in was a shelter for abused & battered women. Please tell me you'll be making more of these videow

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  Před měsícem +4

      Holy shit now that is a niche topic. I completely forgot about the shelter story, thank you for bringing it to my attention.
      I am planning on covering more of these stories! I’m thinking of doing the governor solo episode “liar” story next.

    • @DarkArkham2
      @DarkArkham2 Před měsícem

      @Swell-Films of course! It was such a shocking, sad scene. It doesn't last long, but you get the gist and it's gut-wrenching! They sought shelter from the monster at home only to see horror at their supposed safe haven. Let me hit the bell now so I can see more of these background story analysis as soon as they go live! Great video!

  • @sima4162
    @sima4162 Před měsícem

    I was never much a fan of the show since I can't handle the sight of dead bodies but my mom watched the original series religiously. Occasionally I would walk in the living room and check out what was going on since the story overall was interesting. This is the only scene I remember in full from start to finish. A close second is the scene at the farm when the gang discovered the walkers in the barn.

  • @redr1150r
    @redr1150r Před měsícem

    I remember it like it was yesterday.

  • @zejaguar
    @zejaguar Před měsícem

    I knew something bad happened. The tennis soe in the sink said enough

  • @LoganBrookover
    @LoganBrookover Před měsícem +2

    If you can find more moments like this in the series, I would love to see an analysis of some more of these scenes.

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  Před měsícem +1

      I absolutely love covering the more niche aspects of this franchise so I’ll absolutely do my best!

    • @LoganBrookover
      @LoganBrookover Před měsícem

      @@Swell-Films it's awesome hearing you cover it in such detail! I always pick up on the subtle stuff but I've never thought about it all laid out like this, so I really enjoyed the video. You do great work for the TWD community :)

    • @jjkilhij9531
      @jjkilhij9531 Před měsícem +1

      @@Swell-FilmsOne that’d be neat to cover is the “liar”, “murderer”, “rapist” bodies that The Governor and co find in 4x07, especially with how the “liar” being decapitated influences Hershel’s death

  • @Staysick17
    @Staysick17 Před měsícem +2

    Seems pretty accurate to me

  • @entengx
    @entengx Před měsícem

    another thing to think about, the kid would probably turn after a while in the sink, so how would the mother deal with that....

  • @vimtocat1741
    @vimtocat1741 Před 25 dny +1

    Something that sticks out to me is the music.
    Since music is often used to enhance the experience of a scene we not only hear such a haunting composition to reflect the horror Denise uncovered, but it's also a repeating score that grows louder and more chaotic only stopping when she leaves the room.
    czcams.com/video/hne1FPKcIHU/video.html

  • @AndrewLoukidis-jr2bp
    @AndrewLoukidis-jr2bp Před měsícem

    It was sad when Denise bought it after Daryl telling her she did good finding the place.

  • @Rexini_Kobalt
    @Rexini_Kobalt Před 13 dny

    mentally unwell people have done the same thing in situations that are certainly less dire than being locked in a building surrounded by zombies in the apocalypse with a broken leg, so overall the tale is mostly tragic because its way wau more believable than some people probably thought

  • @PrederNationteam74
    @PrederNationteam74 Před 26 dny

    This reminds me of two things, from the adventure time, there’s a gas station that I think princess bubblegum finds, and this is another show don’t tell, that has been covered on CZcams, and the second is the show don’t tell ish from a znation episode where a news reporter woman ended up starving to death and turning, after the helicopter that was meant to rescue, ended up crashing into the street leaving her alone trapped inside the news station

  • @Woodsy375
    @Woodsy375 Před měsícem +1

    So its the plot from Quigley Down Under but with zombies instead of coyotes

  • @onlyalisaawilliams
    @onlyalisaawilliams Před měsícem +2

    I 100% agree with your assessment of that scene .. Spot on.

  • @Trump-or-Die
    @Trump-or-Die Před měsícem

    Great vid

  • @UnboxerofWorlds
    @UnboxerofWorlds Před měsícem +1

    This scene always bothered me deeply.

  • @Patrious_WoW
    @Patrious_WoW Před 18 dny

    theres a darker moment in the show with the pregnant zombies

  • @BoogSReviews
    @BoogSReviews Před měsícem

    I was rewatching this episode a couple weeks back and forgot about that scene and how disturbing it was. A lot of stuff in TWD can be called disturbing, but this scene is the worse for me. I think what adds to it is the fact that it never really lets you know how exactly it happens, rather it gives some clues and leaves the rest to the viewers imaginations. Leaving the thought of what she did to the imagination is worse than actually showing it imo.

  • @VO1D_GAMING
    @VO1D_GAMING Před měsícem +1

    Maybe the mother killed the baby in the sink and ate the flesh to stay alive for a bit but then got driven to insanity after the solitude she had suffered

  • @MeltedCandle
    @MeltedCandle Před 17 dny

    To me those toddler pictures seem to be on the table but under a layer of glass, considering how misty the surface is, and that the actual photos themselves dont seem to be damaged or discoloured. I think she might have owned the store or at the very least worked there as the clerk, and that perhaps she fled her home in the city/suburbs to the secluded store for safety.
    Perhaps the room she drowned her child in was the most separated in the store, becoming a place she hoped would keep the crying muffled from the outside.
    About the red "HUSH" written on the walls, I think it makes sense that she wrote that with a childs red crayon, making it all the more disturbing. It would take far too long for her to scratch all those words in, that large, espescially when considering that they dont look engraved but rather drawn on.
    If she had used her fingernails and they gradually became bloody, the writing would be less consistent probably being more of a scratched on look that gradually included blood, and in the meantime would have given the walkers ample time to break in due to the neglected cries of the child in favour of the mother writing on the walls.
    Seeing that the child is fully dressed based on the shoe still firmly on the foot, I would assume the mother quickly descended into a frustration and fear-fueled insanity, grabbed a red crayon, and while muttering "hush" over and over, scribbled it onto the walls. Then, when the wailing got louder, she grabbed her toddler and... you know.
    But yeah, I completely agree with a lot of your theory. Tragic.
    (edits for grammar)

  • @lalli8152
    @lalli8152 Před měsícem

    I guess she could have also realized hopelessnes of the situation and do murder suicide out of mercy as well rather than slowly die, and not just to keep the child quiet. Such dark scene either way, and we really cant know the details

  • @jayfonz5765
    @jayfonz5765 Před měsícem

    It would have to have gone further than that, because the dead child would have come back as a walker. The mother would have had to destroy the brain.

  • @drhorrid
    @drhorrid Před měsícem

    "scratched with bloodied fingernails". Bro. That's clearly crayon. That's not scratches.

  • @adrianmartinez8125
    @adrianmartinez8125 Před 7 dny

    My theory is that, she was with her husband/partner and took refuge in the boutique, maybe she was the owner or a employee because the front door wasn't temper with and had the lock so maybe she had the keys of the business. Maybe she and her partner thought it was going to be a good place to lay low and figure out what to do next but one day while her partner went outside probably to look for supplies, walkers came and she quickly went inside where her child and took him to hide in the back room but the child started crying. The partner could have arrived and saw the walkers at the door and open fire at them (you can see holes at the back of their heads) but maybe there where too many or ran out bullets and ran away leaving his wife and child behind.
    I don't think the mother was capable to use a gun or a blunt weapon due to her cast not giving her enough balance. Not knowing what happened outside and the moaning of the walkers continue, the mother probably assumed the worst and the stress of the situation grew more as her child continue crying she got into a psychotic episode and took drastic measures. Probably she attempted to end herself or die of starvation afterwards.
    Thats my theory tho and either way thats a nasty and sad way to leave.

  • @gerardmcquade9102
    @gerardmcquade9102 Před měsícem +2

    maybe she ate him because that looked like lots of blood in the sink and only a shoe or foot was left and the rest of his clothes and bones are under the surface of the blood in the sink

    • @Swell-Films
      @Swell-Films  Před měsícem +1

      That’s an extremely dark theory, but completely possible

  • @gajeel9798
    @gajeel9798 Před měsícem +1

    I feel that after she died via self inflected wounds or starvation that when she turned she ate the body....only thing that doesnt make sense is *technically* after the child drowned...they would have turned as well and thus attacked the mother instead....so its like a weird paradox

    • @harryvass9018
      @harryvass9018 Před měsícem

      She could've bashed his head In while drowning him
      Of worse her baby came back and she had to kill it a second time

  • @jorge5724
    @jorge5724 Před měsícem +1

    Do you have a video on the country club that Daryl and Beth went to

  • @GraveyardMaiden
    @GraveyardMaiden Před měsícem

    Ok the hell is that horrifying fetus thing in the sink

  • @gokakarotku
    @gokakarotku Před měsícem +5

    I got my Peepee pants on for this one, fellas

  • @krideri2
    @krideri2 Před měsícem +2

    Even if her leg had healed at that point she'd most likely been unable to remove the cast herself and be stuck limping like an idiot

    • @mrcarlbaz1
      @mrcarlbaz1 Před měsícem +2

      Soaking it in water would of got the cast off.

    • @krideri2
      @krideri2 Před měsícem

      @@mrcarlbaz1 That's not common knowledge

    • @raynes6286
      @raynes6286 Před měsícem +4

      @@krideri2It’s pretty common knowledge that water makes plaster go soft. Even if someone didn’t know that they could chip and pick away at the cast until it fell apart.

    • @mrcarlbaz1
      @mrcarlbaz1 Před měsícem +4

      @@krideri2 If you ever get a cast, you are told not to get it wet.
      Plus if the woman worked in the pharmacy she should know this.

    • @tiabeaniesemotionalsupportdmon
      @tiabeaniesemotionalsupportdmon Před měsícem

      @@mrcarlbaz1⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️👍🏻

  • @Nemeroth888
    @Nemeroth888 Před měsícem +3

    Very similar to that MASH episode

  • @kimberlyweaver1285
    @kimberlyweaver1285 Před měsícem +1

    I always wondered about the naked lady tied to the tree with the W carved on her. Did the TV wolves seem to be that bad of people?

    • @tiabeaniesemotionalsupportdmon
      @tiabeaniesemotionalsupportdmon Před měsícem

      Me too… and yea they were really that bad. They were also responsible for the complete destruction of Noah’s neighborhood.

  • @xxdinorabbitxxschannel5083

    Are you sure the word "hush" on the wall in the room wasn't just drawn on there by red crayon? It sure looks like it to me!

  • @rachael8646
    @rachael8646 Před měsícem

    Other things to consider: The woman may have had pre-existing mental illness. Even something like post-partum psychosis. After the breakout, she wouldn't have been able to get anti psychotic or other mood stabilizing medications. It looked like there was at one point, at least one other child, possibly 2, since the children from the picture looked to big for the crib/shoe.
    There may also have been other adult survivors there at one point. Maybe others made a break for it, with the promise of coming back for the injured woman and baby. They might habe made it, or not. If they re-animated, their remains would be gone even if they died.
    Maybe without their return the woman slowly deteriorated mentally until dispare consumed her.

    • @tiabeaniesemotionalsupportdmon
      @tiabeaniesemotionalsupportdmon Před měsícem +2

      Yeah, but she was LITERALLY in a pharmacy… she would have probably had plenty of access to antipsychotics/antidepressants/anything else she could’ve needed.

  • @LadyLeomon
    @LadyLeomon Před 21 dnem

    Your theory is certainly a possibility, I have another theory:
    Everything goes the way you said until the mother retreated with her child to the back room, she would have prioritised her child’s well-being over her own, feeding him/her and going without food herself until finally, not able to escape, the inevitable happened and she died, then she turned … and she was still hungry 😰😰😰
    Thanks for a scary good video Ty and hug your furbabies all 💙🐱💙

  • @arabela5092
    @arabela5092 Před 22 dny

    I agree, but drowning wouldn’t cause that much blood in the sink (I think the body just gets bloated). think it was worse..

  • @katharinemason1768
    @katharinemason1768 Před 17 dny

    Theory: The woman and her family, consisting of her toddler and partner decide to hide out in the store as the zombies get closer, I say partner because moving the crib with a broken leg would be tough, the partner left for supplies and never came back perhaps even dying outside the store. Trapped inside with an upset toddler, zombies banging on the windows and no way out the woman suffered a mental break and either accidently or not smothered her child driving her further insane. Writing Hush on the walls with her child's crayon (looks more like red crayon then blood to me- given the multiple thin lines making up the letters) until she eventually died herself.

  • @unicornmorel405
    @unicornmorel405 Před měsícem +1

    This episode was horribly disturbing, and so realistic, wwyd. That was why TWD was so great we could see ourselves in the situations, then it became more and more unrealistic.