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Tales of the Walking Dead: Davon (2022)
Interesting for sure
I don't think this episode is outstanding. But it's something new and interesting. Missed opportunity to film somewhere other than America, and clear reuse of the lakeside set from the previous episode.
The main character is a great actor and some of the other side characters are quite poor in comparison but overall I enjoyed it. I'm glad the talking walker thing stopped quickly as I feel these episodes rely too much on mental issues.
The story wasn't really surprising, but it was still not very predictable. The episode was a bit short to make the end result convincing. So far it's one of the better episodes, but for me, Dee is still the top. Followed by the previous episode.
Fear the Walking Dead: The Raft (2022)
Poor, like.. genuinely poor.
No improvement from the last episode here.
Why did that woman backup against a tree and NOT MOVE just so she could be saved. You dont survive 4+ years into the apocalypse by waiting to be saved.
Im SICK of dwight and sherry constantly arguing and making up. Its like an episode of family guy. Even dwight was self aware shouting "we've been through this".
But, writers, making stupid decisions and then writing the characters to be aware of them isn't good storytelling. Why did they have this argument? Ah, so morgan had a way out.
Morgan also famously doesn't leave people behind and cares tremendously for those he loves. Why exactly is he so okay with leaving?
Why is 90% of this episode two characters talking to eachother with cheesy hopeful music?
Why did western music play when WES of all people turned up?
Why did they kill howard last episode (oh thats right, so wes got more screentime so he could die later aswell), and no doubt to cause drama when aleisha infiltrates the tower.
Its beyond predictable, its beyond boring and nonsensical. Why are all of strands rangers so weak? They just shoot each other? But strand only let strong and helpful people into the tower!?
If you love the show still I know this probably annoys you - but we're on the same side. I just want a good story from good characters. Daniel was in this episode. Did he speak? No. Did he have a scene where he reacted? No.
If Aleisha dies before madison arrives (repeating the ofelia story), I will hate this show. At the moment its just a solid Meh. 5 is generous.
New writers for S8, please. Dont do the same to madison.
Fear the Walking Dead: Sonny Boy (2022)
What is happening to the dialogue
Time to leave another review on a show I keep watching but am losing patience for.
I'll start with what I liked about the episode.
- Actual consequences for actions
- Walker design
- Set design for the Tower.
- Strand.
I'm afraid.. that's it.
What is going on?
1. As many have mentioned, irradiated walkers. John is on his deathbed, so thats fine, but June and Mo arent in danger - stop forgetting your own rules! June stabbed an irradiated walker at the start, and then is afraid 5 minutes later!
2. Convenience
- Isn't it convenient, they didn't catch June OR John going in the elevator (especially since June went through often) but catch Grace immediately (who isn't on screen) ?
- Isn't it convenient, the gate perfectly fits into both openings and can be pushed through by walkers?
- Isn't it convenient, dory can both feel and find his soaked gun in murky water after a zombie literally disarms him like a wild west movie?
3. Dialogue WHAT were they thinking. We get constant mentions of the word legacy, i'm surprised the episode isn't titled Legacy - thats the only surprise this episode. Then suddenly John is all about legacy. His response to a genuinely good comeback "This coming from a man who abandoned his only son" is "We aren't talking about me right now".
Strand throws -nerdy-2nd-hand-man- off the edge of the building for being framed (knowingly) but trusts John for no reason after he's found WITH june and mo hiding the baby. WHY?
4. Just General Stupidity
- WES is now the second leader of the tower? WHY WES?
- Scene with charlie made no sense, why did john ask if those were radiation burns on her.. he also had them!
- I'd like to add, he got hurt before charlie. Charlie is rotting away but John only gets ill once the audience knows he's burnt.
PLEASE, AMC, do whatever you did with season 6 - to season 8. Dont let it continue like this, its falling apart.
I love this universe but this is truly terrible writing, we're going backwards to season 5.
Dead in the Water: A Fear the Walking Dead Story: This Ain't It (2022)
Leaving an overall review on the final episode
This is a pretty good "Tales" episode. I personally enjoyed the one on the plane before, and I loved the approach here.
It really shows how Riley is clearly built for this and gives you a good reason to believe he made it several years after. He's good at putting the pieces together and doing what needs to be done.
I have one minor complaint which is also a minor spoiler. How did his phone not die after swimming? Other than that - really cool!
The Walking Dead: The Lucky Ones (2022)
Before you review...
This is not a 9. I'm doing this to counter balance people hating on any episode that doesn't have every single character they want in it, or has even five minutes of talking.
However, its a solid 7.5, a good episode with good pacing, direction (apart from audio) and some cool walker action.
We are in the final stretch of this show's story, we've moved beyond shuffling around in empty streets for food now, if you want more of that - there are other shows which are still in the early days of the apocalypse.
I think this episode is pretty good because its slowly giving us reasons to both trust and not trust many characters, and we can see whats coming - I like that.
Eugene and Max are alright, Ezekiel isn't holding grudges for 8 episodes like some other seasons with other characters, we're moving forward but still addressing things instead of overlooking them.
The Expanse: Why We Fight (2022)
This was solid good.
I really liked this. It still doesn't feel right being the penultimate episode with barely any major advancements but I still liked it nonetheless.
I really don't know why people cling onto the original seasons like they are "more pure". Amazon don't write or produce the final 3 seasons it's the same team but amazon is paying the bills and promoting the series.
If you don't like it then fair enough but acting like the old team was better makes no sense because they are the same people as on SyFy.
How can you give an episode like this a 3/10? Do you want to hate the show? No praise for the amazing cgi, attention to detail, acting or costume design this ep? Just all bad?
I hope next episode really goes out with a bang but it seems a lot of people are hard to please or are prepared to be unhappy no matter what.
The Expanse: Redoubt (2021)
Well paced episode but leaves a lot to be desired.
This episode was really great for those who are really invested in the characters and their relationships, but at the tail end of a 6 episode final season, in the middle of war.. this was kind of disappointing. I just really want this season to go out with a bang. Season 5 had the rocks being dropped but so far this season hasn't done much. Still, people who are giving it 1s and 4s, please reconsider. This doesn't deserve such low ratings. It's well written, the world is beautiful and the sets are extremely well designed.
That alone should give it a 5/10, most shows don't even get that far.
Looking forward to the next episode. I've started reading the books and I can't recommend them enough!
Ps: for all of you complaining about it being a space opera.. its supposed to be. Even the authors have said so. This isn't star wars. If it isn't your thing, maybe its best you find a new show.
The Expanse: Force Projection (2021)
Excellent Episode
Really good episode. Someone's going to have to feel the consequences of their actions here, and I'm interested to see where it goes. That's two people who have saved marco.
I see people complaining about the spin, but I don't see the issue, surely it was just sped up for TV? Like how they cross the system in a few weeks but show it in 2 seconds? Surely, they didn't want to pad the runtime with long, boring action?
Thoroughly enjoyed.
The Walking Dead: World Beyond: Konsekans (2021)
I want to get in early for this one.
This episode was alright. It didnt excite me, or make me interested in the next episode. The trailer for the rest of the season has me interested, though.
Since the first season, the budget has clearly picked up. But the over-use of CGI to make "impressive set pieces" like the walking dead season 1 is leaving a sour taste.
There's even a scene where at one angle, there's a real walker on the rooftop, and in another, its a CGI blurry mess. Why?
Camera movement feels... silly. I'm not sure what it is, it's just weird. Actually, its not the movement, its the editing. The cuts and the direction of the episode were terrible. We were shown a minute scene of iris and felix, only for it to disappear for the whole episode and then return at the end. Why? We even had to watch the whole scene again, it wasnt a continuation. Stop padding the runtime.
The viewers arent dumb enough to forget something that literally happened right at the start of your 45 minute episode.
I watched this early to see if I'd like to wait for it to release to the general public, or continue seeing it in advance. I've chosen to wait for the general release. Im just not invested enough to watch early, at least not yet.
One final SPOILER complaint (skip to end for praise)
I absolutely refuse to believe Iris can just kill a human with no issues, especially a soldier, especially a soldier who is high ranking (from previous scenes). Seriously? She couldnt even kill a spider last season.
PRAISE:
- Outfits, and practical set design is amazing. Really good work.
- Acting was slightly improved this episode.
- More walkers is always good.
- I loved the (SPOILER) twist that Elizabeth was testing huck, not hope.
The Walking Dead: Rendition (2021)
Decent Episode
I liked this episode, great cinematography and acting. No walkers though, seems odd. I liked seeing the reapers but can't help but feel that the storyline is similar to negan crossing into the whisperers guess we will find out.
Fear the Walking Dead: USS Pennsylvania (2021)
Exciting, but a weird narrative?
I liked this episode. I dont know how anyone can rate it a 1, 2 3 or even 4 or 5. There are countless worse episodes than this, and this one is better than some of the others so far this season.
The episode kept me excited and engaged all the way through, there were a few points i'd like to make though, despite my high rating.
- The scene where everyone tells eachother that morgan isnt going in alone? Done it before, multiple times. The scene where morgan runs off? He's done it before, so have others. By this point in their community, we should be past these sacrificial narratives.
- Strand. Its definitely within strands character to do what he did, especially given how little he knows or has engaged with morgan before. Although it felt stupid, what confused me more is two specific scenes. They killed the radioactive walker off-screen. Why? Where did they get the cloth? The weapon? That was lazy. Secondly, Morgan escaped a pile-on just like carl, except, morgan probably survives. The thing is, morgan would have probably escaped that on-screen. There was room for him to move and kick, they just got lazy and skipped it.
- Is dakota dead? I hope so. If not, i cant believe she survived that scene.
- Morgan probably let teddy & co leave because they're dead anyway. But, realistically, its probably just so that John Dorie Sr can "do what he always should have done".
All these points bring down the episode for me, I feel like if we saw morgan escape, and there was more of an actual reason for strand to do what he did, as well as john dorie Sr going with them (maybe even helping morgan) allowing him to kill teddy in the front of the sub, etc. I would have given it higher ratings.
The Walking Dead: Find Me (2021)
Good concept executed poorly.
Before you read any more reviews about this being filler, remember it was filmed with heavy restrictions, so all of these episodes will have to be filler. They can't advance a show about zombies if all the zombies stay 2 metres apart from each other.
I'm a huge fan of this show, and I can usually see the good in every bad part of an episode. However, this is one of my least favourite episodes of the last 2 seasons. People who left this show complained about bad writing, and I think this episode only highlights what those people are saying. There are moments in this episode which feel really forced, or really out of character. And I'm not talking about the ending, I'd say if you consider all of carols actions you'd understand why that scene exists.
I was hoping for quite a character focused episode which added to Daryls character but this episode didn't quite scratch that itch. If you skipped this, you wouldn't even notice. No episode should be skippable, and this one left me feeling a bit disappointed. I hope it improves..
On a final note, I hope the intros never do that again, and that they stop using text on screen to tell us things. If we get a close up of a wound, followed by another close up where its been healed, we don't need huge text saying 3 months has passed, we get it.
Fear the Walking Dead: Alaska (2020)
Not the best so far, but entertaining and constructive.
Out of the three episodes we've gotten so far, this is probably the least impressive. HOWEVER, that doesn't make it bad or even "meh".
I enjoyed this episode thoroughly, its an excellent build up with two great characters at the helm.
I'm actually looking forward to fear every week, especially episode 4.
The Walking Dead: World Beyond: The Wrong End of a Telescope (2020)
Awful
At this point, im only watching for the C.R.M. Every scene with them has been interesting and dark. However, the main story contrasts too heavily.
The dancing scene was what brought this episode down from a 5 to a 3. It was so over-the-top and forced between two characters who in reality barely know eachother. Silus' character cant decide what he wants to be, one minute he's an introvert, the next he's violent and unstoppable, and now hes cuddly and social?
It's getting worse, not better. There are other reasons for my rating.
The wolf literally did nothing but stand in a doorway.
Iris mentions how good the soda is, silus points out (as if he is the viewer) that she had that life at the university, but then she comes back with some stupid response. The dialogue was just terrible. I hope it gets better because i will continue to watch it, but this show would be better to binge than waiting a week to see it decline.
Fear the Walking Dead: Welcome to the Club (2020)
Solid Episode
Episode 2 continues episode 1's "revamp" with stunning visuals and an all round solid, believable episode. The themed intros are also a nice touch.
Even though the gore in the opening scene is slightly overdone, it doesnt take away from the quality at all.
Dialogue was clear and natural, characters are acting the way they are expected to as of season 3.
I gave it 8 stars because I truly believe it's an amazing episode, but it's not thrilling enough for those extra 2 stars. The ending was also exciting, which I hope it continues to be.
Fear may well be coming back.
EDIT:
I've seen a few reviews here that are marking it at really low values. Fear was bad for the past two years, based on ratings alone.
However these episodes are truly different. Give it a chance, if you cant bare s4 and s5, skip. I wouldn't recommend it, but the more people who watch, the higher the budget, and hopefully - higher the quality.
Fear is dead to some, but these two episodes have been truly interesting and each one wraps up quickly without dragging minor issues across several weeks.