Trulyimaginewhat your life would have come to if you were de-feathering a dead pigeon while salivating?

For most of us this nadir would arrive months, perhapsyearsafter the downfall of society.

Desperate times come faster than we think!

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its still undeniably captivating.

Like, you know a series is getting grim when it starts directly referencingSchindlers List.

(48-hour screening tents?

Of course not.)

Worse, its policies had led to actual starvation within the fences.

Dr. Sabine kept citing her experience quashing outbreaks in Sierra Leone, but this wasdowntown Atlanta.

Which, as we talked about last week, is this shows true focus.

Credit toContainment: Thats dark stuff.

Similarly complicated from a societal standpoint was the armed gang whod taken control of Teresas familys grocery store.

Not bad for a show about bloody noses!

NEXT: Meth-heads on motorbikes!

But Like a Sheep Among Wolves had more on its mind than social issues.

It also had meth-heads on motorbikes doing wheelies in an underground parking garage for hours and hours.

Fortunately the rooftop hunk helped her get away from these goons, and not a moment too soon.

But Katie began to question why a pair of doctors had succumbed to their symptoms before he had?

And why was there a page torn out of the visitors log that day?

And why was Dr. Victor refusing to answer any of Katies questions all of a sudden?

Wouldnt it be nice if the stakes feltslightlyhigher?

Its this last question I cant stop asking myself.

Im not convinced it can do both things at once.

We wouldnt be talking about anything else!

Canaries may be dying right and left, but that just means were in the right place.