I never found Rick Grimes to be particularly attractive until this episode.
this is a zombie apocalypse, you can’t expect them to be beautiful while running and fighting for their lives in a world without running water.
But that’s just the thing. I like them dirty and covered in blood and generally un-pretty. Why it took me ‘til now to dig Grimes does slightly confound me. Maybe he was just never dirty and bloody and broken enough.