This week's episode is directed by the TWD veteran Michael E. Satrazemis and it follows Dwight and Althea once again plus Morgan as he is the one that ties everything together now with this anthology storytelling that the showrunners is going for. From Dwight and Al's last adventure we got a reunion with Dwight and his wife Sherry which was big and will hopefully introduce some interesting character moments and development throughout the episode and season.
Dwight and Sherry, the actors who portray them did a phenomenal job, their chemistry together is amazing and so are their characters personalities, both super interesting to follow. Austin Amelio did his best performance yet, he shined throughout the whole episode and another thing when it comes to him as Dwight is his weight and other smaller details. It's truly an impressive acting job and a character, Dwight for me have grown into one of the favorites.
With the brief appearance in episode 3, Sherry's presence is huge even when she's not on screen as the good writing for Dwight. Christine Evangelista was amazing and brought new life to the role of Sherry, and I can't wait to see what else she brings to the table.
The cinematography and overall camera work was on the same level as the previous episodes, perfect. There were so many nice camera angles that I liked, some influenced by western movies I'm guessing. The musical score was great, some western inspired music and mysterious ones as well.
This episode was superb but I can see the opinion and argument that the episode was too slow paced, too much dialogue but it's handled so well because of these two who just found each other again, and we also have the new group of masked individuals that we learn about plus a familiar face from season 5 is reintroduced. The dialogue and character interactions are well written and extremely well done, the storytelling was amazing both visually and in writing. The monologues is there not to bore you but to establish emotional content and character development which there are lots of in this episode.
There's heavy emphasis on the western genre, even more than the previous episode. Group of outlaws, train inspired robbery and so on. The writers have truly made a post-apocalyptic western, a darn good one. After watching this episode I understand fully of the showrunners vision for their Fear TWD, S4 and S5 had its ups and downs but they were thinking too far ahead which pays off brilliantly in this season which is probably what they wanted to do all along but needed the character development and world building to do it.