Lincoln also received critical acclaim for his work on "The Walking Dead". In 2012 and 2015, TVLine spotlighted Lincoln as "Performer of the Week" for his performance in the fourth episode of season 3 ("Killer Within") and for the fifteenth episode of season 5 ("Try"), respectively. Regarding Lincoln's performance on "Try", TVLine commented, "We always knew that Lincoln could play the living daylights out of anything that was thrown at him. But until this week’s episode of "The Walking Dead", we didn’t realize that he could act his way from A to Z all within the span of a single hour". Jacob Stolworthy of "The Independent" commented that Lincoln's performance in the first episode of season seven is "a moment where Andrew Lincoln excels, his character coming full circle".