I thought the first couple-three episodes after the mid-season break were kinda snoozers. But the last couple have made up for it, and now I kinda see what they were doing earlier. After the prison, they basically needed to reset the cast, the setting, everything. New character associations, etc.
I REALLY like how Carol told Tyrese about whatstheirnames, and how he realized, after just having been through doing what needed to be done with Lizzy, that Carol was only doing what needed to be done when she killed his infected friends, and thus forgave her. Had she told him when they were out on their walk before Lizzy killed her sister, he would have gone apesh*t. But perspective and reality did their work, and she was able to come clean. I thought that was very well written.