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The Walking Dead’s ‘Slabtown’: The Real Source of Terror Isn’t Walkers, It’s Rape

Disturbing

In ‘Slabtown,’ we’re taken inside horror hospital Grady Memorial, where the ‘workers’ subject their patients to treatment so ghastly it can’t be shown onscreen.

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The Walking Dead wasn’t exactly on its zombie A-game during Sunday night’s episode, “Slabtown.” What few walker scares there were came pretty cheap: A sudden cut to a close-up of a walker scratching loudly against a fence could elicit a jump from anyone.

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