The Walking Dead: The Complete Third Season

The third season of one of the best shows on television brings us the most eagerly awaited parts of the hit comic book series as The Walking Dead finally goes to jail.

Our heroes have been on the road, catching rest where they can, constantly moving to avoid herds of walkers roaming the country side. And while the final scene of last season gave us a glimpse of the prison, the survivors have been wandering away from it and around it, finally walking through the trees to find it. Inside these walls, behind these fences, they will find sanctuary... if they can clear out all the zombies first.

Bringing in the prison from the comic also means bringing in the town of Woodbury. And with Woodbury comes The Governor. This is where season three really shines. In the comic, The Governor was almost too much a comic book villain. He's clearly evil and crazy and more, just obvious from the start. But here, well, he's a nice guy looking out for his people and all his evil and crazy is more insidious, behind the scenes, in the shadows, while no one is looking. He is a master of propaganda, selling the town on the lies he needs them to hear. Playing the Governor, David Morrissey really sells the part and makes this already great show greater.

One of the complaints that The Walking Dead does get, both in the second season and in the third as well, is that sometimes it gets slow during the "middle" episodes. And that's not entirely unfair. However, this is a complete season on Blu-ray, so you can binge watch and all the slowness issues fall away.

Being a set, it's also loaded with extras. There are 5 episodes with commentary, 8 behind the scenes featurettes, and a handful of deleted scenes, all of which just serve to underscore how fantastic this show is.