Acheron: Part 1 followed two storylines: The group led by Daryl and Maggie in search for supplies and food, and ended with Negan letting Maggie fall to her supposed death as she was surrounded by walkers. Meanwhile the other story followed Eugene, Yumiko, Ezekiel and Princess as they found themselves in captivity of the Commonwealth, their escape led them out to an alleyway where they found a notice board of The Wall of the Lost where Yumiko's brother had placed a picture of her, Heath's name was also on the notice board and that can possibly mean that he's in there or that he has a family member there overall a nice easter egg. Acheron: Part 2 is a direct follow-up to Part 1 and continues where last episode left off.
Kevin Dowling returns to direct the second part of the season opener titled "Acheron", superb direction and the writing is excellent even exceeding the previous episode that also had great writing. The cinematography is simply perfect and breathtaking, the production design is brilliant. I don't have any real problems with this episode, only one that is an occuring issue in The Walking Dead and it's just that they don't show any recoil for the firearms. But it's easy to look past that when everything else is superb.
There's plenty of action in this episode, wonderfully done and the zombie killing is shot in an amazing way which shows the team work of our beloved characters, Daryl completely kicked ass in this episode. The acting was phenomenal and I would say that everyone gave great performances but the ones I found to be truly breathtaking were Lauren Cohan and her monologue it was simply astonishing and the same has to be said for Josh McDermitt, I think he gave one if not the best performance as Eugene. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Norman Reedus and Callan McAuliffe also is worthy of praise. I really like the expanded role Negan has now in this season, it works perfectly with Maggie's return and dare I say that they're very similar now after everything Maggie went through in the years away, one of the events that impacted her the most is told through the monologue Lauren Cohan does and she was terrific as Maggie.
Acheron: Part 2 is an incredible episode that has something that everyone will like. The writers and director kept the tension going from start to finish, it wouldn't have been as perfect if it wouldn't be because of the first episode that served as more of a build up than a standalone episode. "Acheron" have been a terrific start to the eleventh and final season.