My wife called the twist in this one from a mile away. I never would have thought to pay attention to an actor's hairstyle off set. ;-)
All in all, I thought they adapted the source material suitably for a television show. That being said, I'm going to be one of those that say the series pales in comparison to the book. You should read it even if the show has been your first exposure to the story.
Wow. Just... wow. Freddie Highmore has come such a long way from freakin' "August Rush." Vera Farmiga was great. The whole cast was top notch. I noticed that Farmiga isn't in the news as leaving the cast either. I know we'll be seeing her ghost around a lot. Good news.
I've never read the books and this episode blew everything wide open for me. It was a lot to take in. I wonder whether Ethan receives the same amount of information so quickly in the book. I thought about the show a bit after watching and decided to suspend my disbelief. Why not? I like all of the actors, characters, and the setting. I might as well take the ride.
If they were aiming at making the creature in this episode almost unbearable, they succeeded admirably. Well done!
This was, and still is, one of the most hilarious first episodes I've ever seen from an "Adult Swim" show. Fig nuts...
To this day, my best friend and I refer to "BeBop Cola" in our conversations. We still laugh out loud about it too!
I think the strength in this series will lie with the way the story stacks the odds from the first minute on. They seem insurmountable... I can't wait to watch more.
I felt like cheering when Naz decided to tell Box to f$%k off, in so many words. Watching cops (fictional - I know) playing games with suspects gets me riled up.
It's such a shame that Gandolfini isn't around to see the work he backed hit the air. I'm loving every minute of this show.
I think this is a good case study in a show being more than the sum of its parts. Sure - it's chaotic and vague at times. It doesn't always follow the guidelines of its own narrative. The ending is a stretch. But it tries valiantly to make a point about the power of coming together despite differences, and, for me, that was worth 8 or so hours of my free time.
I enjoyed this episode a lot, chiefly because Freddie Highmore is starting to channel Anthony Perkins' mannerisms more and more as everything derails. It's a lot of fun to watch him jam his hands in his pockets and lift up on the balls of his feet like the classic character we all know.
It feels like, given the tone and nature of the other episodes, this is a strange bookend to the first season. The outlier in the season is episode 07. It's so stylistically different given Panos Cosmatos's direction, it feels a bit out of line with the others. Why not reverse the order and give this episode a bit more weight? I'm not knocking "The Murmuring," at all. I think it's quite good. But putting an episode like this at the end of the run can sometimes be detrimental to its impact.
Everyone is expecting something grand, and this story is anything but. Bump it up in the order and the viewer is expecting a bit less out of it, which allows them to appreciate something like this story more. Regardless, it's another good bit of a great season. I'm excited to see what's next.
Like the drug addled immediate family member you hope against hope will straighten up and fly right, I begged the TWD gods to give me a satisfying resolution to this show. Why, oh why, did I ignore my intuition? Why would I think the flaming train wreck that is this show would magically turn things around in the 11th hour? This is why I don’t gamble.
It turns out the biggest twist in TWD’s plot is, in the end, you find out all the show’s writers are walkers too.
Lord: please bless our Sunday nights with more Keefe. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye::pray:
