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The Walking Dead: Monsters (2017)
Episode 3, Season 8
Missed chances; failing again and again
6 November 2017 - 56 out of 86 users found this review helpful.
Let's see what happened in this episode:
- Starts with usually cringeworthy speech of Ezekiel. This could have been replaced with some efficient and exciting dialogues, but that requires skills in writing drama. Whatever.
- Stormtrooper students still firing countless shots at each other from a ten-yard distance.
- Morales vs. Rick dialogue continues, with Morales saying basically: "Rick, you are an evil man, you just don't know it". Then Daryl shoots Morales in the head, rendering all these scenes with the guy (about 20 percent of this episode's runtime) almost completely pointless. It would have been sooooo much better, sooooo much more interesting if we could have somehow learned some more new stuff about the Saviours from Morales' point of view, but the creative team shrugged and said: "let's just kill the guy". Brilliant.
- Saviour prisoners being taken to the Hilltop: scene ends with fight of Morgan and Jesus, two of the most annoying characters in the show (who are still among the most beloved by the fans for some reason, so they cannot be killed). They beat each other for a couple of minutes and then stop. No new information was shared with the audience and we knew from the beginning that the scene would have no serious consequences, so it was just wasted time.
- Some more pointless, mindless shooting.
- Bad*ss Maggie acting cringeworthy. (I just couldn't watch this scene, I had to skip it.)
- Rick surprised by supposed cruelty of Daryl, like it was something new to him. (Finally trying to establish some character development - and failing at it.)
The show still lingers around moralizing about the value of human life, in a very inefficient way. The story still moves forward with the speed of a snail. The first three episodes of S08 could be summarized in one 30-minute long segment, and nothing new happens in these episodes that hasn't already been told in the earlier seasons of TWD.
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The Walking Dead: The Damned (2017)
Episode 2, Season 8
I'll open a bottle of champagne if something noteworthy finally happens
30 October 2017 - 27 out of 49 users found this review helpful.
The first two episodes of S08 are a total disappointment compared even to my moderate expectations. I hoped the writers of the show would finally shake things up a bit after the extremely dull episodes of last season and, well, nothing like that happened. I don't know how long the pointlessly lengthy gun-fights, terrible dialogues and staring into the distant nothing will go on, but it's about time to stop that. I'm still waiting for the characters to do something that finally moves the story forward.
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