La Dame de Fer
- Episode aired Oct 1, 2023
- TV-MA
- 49m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
2.7K
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Daryl and Isabelle negotiate with the owner of the Demimonde club.Daryl and Isabelle negotiate with the owner of the Demimonde club.Daryl and Isabelle negotiate with the owner of the Demimonde club.
Larry Alexandre
- Guerrier
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaLa Dame de Fer translates into The Lady of Iron in English. At one time, it referred to the Eiffel Tower.
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Faster pacing with great action and a terrific performance by Norman Reedus, yet a poor delivery in its story in order to move the story forward
The fourth episode of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is written by Shannon Goss, whilst Tim Southam directed the episode, titled "La Dame de Fer". It continues where the previous episode left us, the group is in the heart of Paris and two parties are looking for Laurent. The protagonist and the antagonist with their respectives. There's a scene I really liked which involved Genet at the community whom we got introduced to in the previous episode, it made her more relatable and not as a comic book villain. I like her and Codron, two well written characters. I don't know about Quinn though, I just don't buy his backstory and character at all, it might change though. With the faster pacing, we didn't really get any dialogue heavy scenes, Norman Reedus was incredible though. Last review I wanted to stay positive and find something good with Laurent as a character and the actor portraying him, the chemistry being the sole thing, here the bad acting shows even more and the writing for him, unfortunate in how they made him so important. Something else about the writing, I still love how authentic the dialogue is and how much french is spoken, there are even some F bombs coming out of Daryl's lips which just comes out natural. Daryl is quite grim in this episode, this show and honestly he have always been quite grim. After what he endured in season 7, I'm sure anyone would be grim. He kills with ease, zombies as humans, nothing new but when Laurent is watching he gives it a second thought. As an audience I guess it can be easy to watch and think how stupid it was for Daryl to do so, this is human behavior though, would you want to show a pre-teen it's okay to murder anyone in cold blood? I think not, this is why I liked that writing decision.
Daryl and Isabelle negotiate with the owner of the Demimonde club.
Great establishing shots, the production and art design were fantastic. The mise-en-scene was also quite great, they set up each shot so perfectly and I think the steadicam and the lens choice is perfect for the show. The cinematography is truly amazing. I love how they've finally arrived in Paris, a city I visited back in August and seeing all the landmarks in this show and simply the way they shot it, made me smile. Everything around the filmmaking was great in my opinion. The pacing is good and I would say it's nicely edited. The set design, costume and makeup department, lightning, composition, and so on. Everything about the filmmaking is great, direction too.
In a previous review I wrote how nice it was to see the locations and memorable iconography which Paris has to offer, now they're deep in the city and are next to the Eiffel Tower in one important scene which contains a great action sequence. All the action sequences were good in this episode, and something I took notice of is how the zombie killing is a bit different here, you see how the characters really need to use force and go deep and not the quick and easy killing the original show used to be. This is more keen with the first season of The Walking Dead. The final set piece showed a realistic shootout; with bullets getting fired, Molotov cocktails and grenades getting thrown, whilst both parties are playing it safe. Both sides are firing at each other, both suppressive fire, thus the bombs being important here. I can understand if someone thinks this is a boring action sequence, but it's a nice change of pace, a realistic one. Honestly though, I didn't like the delivery that much in this episode, finding Quinn and him being the father to be a unnecessary addition to the story. I really like the paramilitary group, Pouvoir Du Vivant (Power of the Living), though.
Daryl and Isabelle negotiate with the owner of the Demimonde club.
Great establishing shots, the production and art design were fantastic. The mise-en-scene was also quite great, they set up each shot so perfectly and I think the steadicam and the lens choice is perfect for the show. The cinematography is truly amazing. I love how they've finally arrived in Paris, a city I visited back in August and seeing all the landmarks in this show and simply the way they shot it, made me smile. Everything around the filmmaking was great in my opinion. The pacing is good and I would say it's nicely edited. The set design, costume and makeup department, lightning, composition, and so on. Everything about the filmmaking is great, direction too.
In a previous review I wrote how nice it was to see the locations and memorable iconography which Paris has to offer, now they're deep in the city and are next to the Eiffel Tower in one important scene which contains a great action sequence. All the action sequences were good in this episode, and something I took notice of is how the zombie killing is a bit different here, you see how the characters really need to use force and go deep and not the quick and easy killing the original show used to be. This is more keen with the first season of The Walking Dead. The final set piece showed a realistic shootout; with bullets getting fired, Molotov cocktails and grenades getting thrown, whilst both parties are playing it safe. Both sides are firing at each other, both suppressive fire, thus the bombs being important here. I can understand if someone thinks this is a boring action sequence, but it's a nice change of pace, a realistic one. Honestly though, I didn't like the delivery that much in this episode, finding Quinn and him being the father to be a unnecessary addition to the story. I really like the paramilitary group, Pouvoir Du Vivant (Power of the Living), though.
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- Oct 2, 2023
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- La petite ceinture, 15th district, Paris, France(Railroad access to Quinn's basement)
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- Runtime49 minutes
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