The storylines are becoming so dry still watching just because I started from the first season
Had great fun with the pissing contest between Beta and Negan.
Negan I fucking love you!
[7.8/10] This episode gives us four stories, and each of them is pretty good! I’ll take it!
My favorite of them is the Eugene story of searching for connection at a desperate moment and finding it in the form of his new Skype girlfriend. It seems obvious that this is a ploy by whomever he’s speaking to on the other end. That said, I like how the show dramatizes his loneliness through him trying to get others to interact with him, especially after Rosita burned the romantic bridge with him. His efforts to communicate with his radio girl are sweet but sad, and Josh McDermitt does a great job of selling the character’s inner life and turmoil through all of this.
You also can’t go wrong with a Carol/Daryl pairing. The setup, of these two who have shared so much and care so much about one another, while also having a hint of mistrust for one another given recent events, is superb. Their mission to track The Whisperers, with Carol wanting to take out Alpha, and Daryl worried about starting a war, makes for a nice conflict. But better yet, I really enjoy the scenes where they’re just sitting and talking. For however much trouble this show has when it defaults to overwritten two-person conversations, it’s not a problem with Carol and Daryl, who have such a natural rapport that you almost can’t mess it up.
I’m intrigued about where they’re going with it though. The prior mentions of New Mexico feel like the show gesturing toward a potential spin-off centered on the series’ two most longstanding characters. And I may be out on a limb here, but it seemed like the unspoken subtext of the pair’s conversation regarding Daryl and Connie is that Daryl is carrying a torch for Carol, unwilling to do anything that would break their bond. This duo are the two I’m most invested in for the whole series (give or take Michonne), so color me fascinated to see where things are headed with them, with or without their Whisperer hostage.
Hell, I even enjoyed our interlude with The Whisperers this week. As Beta notes repeatedly, Negan’s loquaciousness makes for a weird mix with a group whose very name means speaking softly. But I enjoy his initiation routine here. It’s not perfect. There’s a little too much of Negan’s old, crass dialogue at play, and you just know that this whole thing is a scheme for him to ingratiate himself to the Whisperers before he turns on them to save the good guys. But I still enjoyed the montage where he’s forced to do harsh Whisperer labor and clashes with the gruff, skeptical Beta. The return of a faux Savior-era Negan isn’t something I particularly welcome, but I do like his inherent tension with Beta and the implicit plot to bring the “skin freaks” down from the inside.
Last but not least, I like Siddiq’s story here too. I’ll admit, I don’t really know where they’re going with the PTSD angle, but the sound design and visual shift when he goes from looking into his daughter’s eyes to fearing a walker attack is really good. I’m not enthused by the prospect of the show reviving some kind of love quadrangle shtick with Rosita, but I do like the prospect of Alexandria being threatened by a bug (one somehow sent by The Whisperers?) with Siddiq at the center a la Herschel at the prison. Plus, Dante and his “discount Ryan Reynolds” routine has really grown on me over the course of six episodes.
Overall, I’m still skeptical as to where this season’s headed, but this episode was a big step in the right direction.
And goddamn Negan was absolutely the best character in this episode! Even though he’s still a misterious person
Negan's performance and Daryl is why I still watch this shit
Already two great episodes in a row. Hopefully the season will go on like this, or even better.
Now this is how you enter a new room. Goddamn you Negan. Goddamn you indeed.
Negan and Beta are my new favorite duo. They make for such great television. I really enjoyed this episode. Daryl and Carol out together, Negan infiltrating the whisperers camp and being sassy doing so. Great fun. However, I do feel like it is time for something big now. We've been having these filler (fun but still, filler) episodes since the start of this season, it's time to kick it up a notch.
This show is retarded. I finally said it. Coronation Street with zombies.
negan in this episode......hes the only person in this show I gaf about anymore
Seriously? Negan's knife breaks off yet again? Where is he getting all these defective blades from ffs?
eugene story was cute as hell! hoping that girl on the other side is genuine, i have good hopes. the fact they’d both shared memories about their times in strasbourg and everything. i’ll be real disappointed if she isn’t legit.
negan is absolute certified badass as per usual. nobody could play him any better than jdm does. this all getting into the skins thing has to be an infiltration.
“you best bring that extra long tape measure on account of my humongous balls.”
carol and daryl scenes pretty cool too. can knocking scene was cool. wonder how the hostage situation is gonna go.
The Negan storyline is really starting to get going now. We got a good dose of the dynamic between him and Beta and I’m looking forward to his dynamic with Alpha, how he’ll integrate into the Whisperers and what his endgame is. I’m liking Eugene’s storyline as well, it seems like that could lead somewhere important. As for the sickness bug, I’m assuming that’s as a result of the water supply being infected (btw didn’t Aaron see this happen? Why hasn’t he said anything?) It doesn’t really need as much screen time as it’s getting, but it’s fine. The only stupid thread this episode really was the Carol and Daryl one, it is borderline incomprehensible what they’re doing, but like I said it’s like these writers can’t go one episode without incorporating some kind of idiocy into the episode. Nonetheless, probably the best of the season so far. 8/10
I don't think Negan will go dark side with the whisperers for reals.
Negan is back. Finally. One of the better episodes.
It would be great to see how Lucille kisses the head of Beta WE ARE ALL NEGAN, on the other hand Rosita is very sad to see her before and for what remains.
As I said last episode, I'm all in for a Negan only spin-off or at least a series of episode "The History of Negan" style.
JDM is one hell of a fit to this character. So so entertaining, Ho-ly sh¡t.
Also on this episode:
poor geek Eugene.
poor mind-sick Sadiq.
poor Beta without benefits.
poor follow-Carol Daryl.
poor eat twig Pig.
Eugene and radio girl are gonna bang. Better bring back the mullet, my man - instant sex appeal. Oh and Negan will probably do the horizontal mambo with Alpha as well, he doesn't need to change a thing about his appearance.
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I think Eugene will probably put the communities at risk by giving too much informations to that radio girl.