![]() What did you think of the Season 8 premiere? Let me know on Twitter or Facebook.Īs always, I’d love it if you’d follow me here on this blog and subscribe to my YouTube channel and my Substack so you can stay up-to-date on all my TV, movie and video game reviews and coverage. We’ll see if things can pick up as the season progresses, but my hopes are down there in the swamp with the dead, drowning in the muck. Everything feels artificial and contrived. The fact is, this is still New Fear, and that’s always been less compelling than Old Fear. There’s some good action, some tension, some fun scenes in the Season 8 premiere but it’s just very, very difficult to care about any of it. The expiration date on all their stories was many years ago and now they’ve all gone rotten. What personality will they layer over him this time? I am excited about literally none of them. And, of course, Strand in whatever new form they give him. In future episodes we’ll get Dwight and Sherry (the worst, most toxic TV couple in The Walking Dead universe) and that shell of a man who inhabits the body of Daniel. I didn’t much like Madison before this, and I don’t care for her now when her character is not only pointless but far less interesting. ![]() What’s the point of bringing her back now that her whole family is dead? The answer: To bring back wayward viewers. Morgan is so tiresome it’s almost painful. I’m so, so tired of all these characters.Their feud with the Native American tribe (which had its own flawed characters) was realistic and plausible. The survivalists and the Otto family were flawed, imperfect, but felt like the kind of group you might actually find in a zombie apocalypse. Season 3 was great because the group in question wasn’t just bad. This show has the same problem The Walking Dead had, which is an overreliance on groups of enemies that are Very Bad and Must Be Stopped. This is just another totally implausible group of survivors to play antagonist to our heroes. I’ll have to go into more specific detail later, because nobody feels like a human being and it’s so bizarre! It’s not any one line in particular, nothing uniquely egregious, just the overall way people talk. I can’t imagine being an actor and having to say this crap. It’s as if this show was written by aliens using AI to simulate what humans are supposed to sound like. It’s all over-the-top, melodramatic gobbledygook. Just your typical Fear dialogue that never really feels like how normal people actually talk. The zombies look great and there are lots of them. Shots of the swamps at night are pretty cool. Some of the cinematography is really nice.It’s small potatoes in the big scheme of things, but it’s another example of the showrunners treating the audience like we’re stupid. I’ll qualify that with a caveat: It’s really, painfully obvious that she’s actually 12 (Zoey Merchant, the actress, that is) and not 8 like the character is supposed to be after the big time-jump. No nuclear fallout here in Louisiana, thank goodness. ![]() Doubly so after the nuclear wasteland crap from Season 7. Swampland! The color green! Water! Swamp zombies! It’s a refreshing change from the boring flatlands of Texas. It’s bad, but it could be worse? None of it makes sense but it could make less sense? There’s nothing egregiously bad here, but also nothing to really convince me that the showrunners and writers have learned any important lessons from their previous mistakes. It’s a big step up from Season 7, but that’s such a low bar that I’m not sure it says much. Meanwhile, Daryl Dixon will see the titular archer in a post-apocalyptic France, facing off against new human and Walker threats alike.The Season 8 premiere is. The series is set to premiere June 18, and has already been pre-emptively renewed for season 2. Dead City follows Negan and Maggie as they traverse New York City to find Maggie's kidnapped son, Hershel. Related: Rick & Michonne's Walking Dead Show Is Avoiding 1 Fatal MistakeĪlong with the as-yet-untitled Rick and Michonne spinoff, The Walking Dead is also set to explore more fan-favorite character stories with Dead City and Daryl Dixon. However, it seems that James has no interest in returning to the world of Walkers for the foreseeable future. Left to fend for herself, she has been forced to learn how to survive in a world gone mad. With Morgan being such an integral part of the Walking Dead universe, there were many theories that James may make an appearance in one of the upcoming spinoff series, particularly in the Rick and Michonne-centric show. The Walking Dead: Season Two continues the story of Clementine, a young girl orphaned by the undead apocalypse. One of the first characters to appear in The Walking Dead, Morgan was a recurring character throughout the series before departing in season 8 to become a lead in Fear the Walking Dead.
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