I had hope with the first episode. This one took it all away. What a boring episode.
Can Sinead O’Connor just die already?
[3.5/10] Woof. This was bad. Real bad. I’ve said my piece about Samantha Morton/Alpha already, but suffice it to say, spending forty-five minutes with her terrible southern accent and stage-y performance was not my idea of a good time. But I don’t want to put this all on Morton’s shoulders. The performances were bad all around, and how could they not be, with everyone having to deliver that awful, tortured Whisperer dialogue? And this one was just thoroughly boring to boot, leaving me literally checking my watch multiple times to see how close we were to finishing this one.
What kills me is that I actually like the idea behind this one! I like the notion that the Whisperers’ whole ethos is detachment, but that even the most hardened and devoted members of Alpha’s flock, including Alpha herself, cannot rid themselves of their human attachments. I like the idea that the Whisperers have resorted to this out of a certain fatalism, with the idea that any chance of survival or a normal life after the zombie apocalypse is a fantasy, and so they’ve stopped pretending.
But god, the dramatization of those ideas is so god awful. Again, Alpha having pangs for her daughter, Beta wearing his brother’s (friend’s? husband’s?) face, Gamma’s sister being unable to let go of the loss of her baby, are all solid enough throughlines. And the back and forth flashback structure does an admirable job of trying to mix and match Alpha and Beta’s becoming a team with their failures to live out their own principles in the present.
But every realization of these ideas is so blunt and on-the-nose, rife with the same corny dialogue and ridiculous cult vibe that makes it hard to take anything seriously. There’s no point on The Walking Dead that the show won’t hammer home until the point of exhaustion, and neither story in the episode is dramatically interesting apart on a standalone basis. The ideas the show’s gesturing toward are interesting, but it has no idea how to grab them or translate them into a story.
Throw in consistently terrible dialogue, a languid pace, and cruddy performances all around, and you have one of the worst TWD episodes in recent memory, which is saying something.
This episode should have been called "We are the end of your consciousness" because I nearly fell asleep! I understand they wanted to devote the pilot to the mainline cast, and the second episode was all Whisperers stuff - but this episode was such a bore! Next week is looking to be an improvement, though.
I don't know about them being the end of the world, but they are surly freaking me out.
Does someone know to whom Beta's 7y.a ski mask character resembles to. It was so obvious yet I can't put my finger on it. Where did I see this scary big man with sky mask holding a machete before? I don't think it's Jason, because the ski mask was the thing... maybe, I dunno. All help and references will be much appreciated. Thx.
And a gather of words for all the TWD haters here:
For the last seasons (maybe from se4) you're non-stop cry out about how awful this show is. So for the love of god, his angles, prophets, the Avengers or who and whatever you believe in, WHY THE HECK YOU MASOCHISTS KEEP WATCHING? y'all sound like the ones who eats all the pieces of the cake just to "check if it came out well" , but they're not even like cakes. Or, if I'd like to come full circle with the episode, like Alpha, claiming whenever she can that Lidia is dead to her and was so from the beginning, only to prove she doesn't.
So just admit that you're addicted (which is fine AND it's the first step to recovery) or STOP WATCHING ALREADY!
Please, enough of wearing us out with your dissatisfaction and disappointment from everything.
Peace, Love and Justice for all:metal:
Lol nothing makes the other reviewers with short attention spans happy, this episode is amazing with amazing acting, I can’t wait to watch her episode in tales of the walking dead
B. O. R. I. N. G.
painfully boring... just end it already
Yea more boring background to more annoying characters is what I wanted. Don’t know what baffles me more; The AnB relationship or the dumb Latex masks. They aren’t even trying anymore. This whole Whisperers arc just doesn’t work. At all.
I can't be more uninterested with the whole Whisperers idea. It was a nice twist with first couple episodes but to drag it so much... After all the shit the TWD crew survived they should have won with them in one episode. This shouldn't be a threat. Alpha is so annoying and not scary or clever at all.
Actually a pretty decent episode. Decent dialogue, good music and of course, an in depth look at perhaps the most unhinged characters the show has offered so far. We’ve seen crazy in many different manifestations, including stable crazy (Negan). Alpha and especially Beta offer a look at the polar opposite; completely unstable and totally off the rails bonkers. The only problem with the episode was that besides these two characters, who are still fairly new, I have no reason to care about any other character in the episode. 8/10
This was so boring and they are both extremely irritating. I was not even taking any notice of this episode when it was on.
Wow. This was terrible. We don’t give each names but we’ll call each other Alpha, Beta, etc. Are the writers smoking crack when they write this stuff.
It took me 3 days to see this chapter! Very boring...
Huge jump in quality from that disastrous first episode of the season
This is just bad... bad TV!
We don't have names, but my name is Alpha, this is Beta and my daughter is Lydia, nice to meet you. LOL
One of the worst episodes of the series …
This was boring as hell. A complete episode about these boring "whisperers" that don't get attacked because they wear a dried up deadmask? This whole episode could be done in 10 minutes.
Not a total waste of time like some say. It introduced the Thora Birch Whisperer after all.
This is season ten, and the writers still don't understand that derangement alone is not enough to carry an episode. Like the walkers, this show has been dead for way too long.
Shout by MarinkaBlockedParent2019-10-14T13:17:19Z
Alpha and Beta are very interesting characters to watch. I like these flashback episodes that give us more backstory and I'm curious to see where they'll go next in the story. There is a very dark, twisted and powerful bond between the two that makes for great tv.