'The Walking Dead': Suicide King?

Carol (Melissa Suzanne McBride), left, Carl Grimes (Chandler Riggs) and Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) in a scene from an episode of "The Walking Dead," "The Suicide King." (Gene Page / AMC)

The Walking Dead has done it again. Another. ANOTHER. Series-high rating. Sunday night's midseason return of the AMC zombie drama delivered 12.3 million viewers and a 6.1 adults 18-49 rating -- its biggest yet in both

The Walking Dead” continued its record-breaking ratings run by hitting a new series high of 12.3 million viewers for Season 3 midseason premiere episode, “The Suicide King.”

Back from midseason hiatus, The Walking Dead just demonstrated not only what it can be as a show but what TV can be as a medium. From the beginning, playing character against context, TWD has made a theme of living death; now, playing story form

The Walking Dead” returns after a two month hiatus with Season 3 episode 9: the midseason premiere “The Suicide King.”