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The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (2024)
A Massively Popular Showing of Lost Potential and Denied Greatness
Rick and Michonne. The two best characters in the afterlife in this world of ours called The Walking Dead.
A series centered around them. What could go wrong?
Turns out... a fair bit.
A lot of the dialogue is just... eh. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's absolutely terrible. The characters feel clunky sometimes: it's dialogue and direction that makes them suffer, at least in the first half of the story. In the second half, things become much more.... simple. The great revelations you expect just don't really happen and instead they're disappointing little things you'll forget right after. That's just... not good?
The acting is decent, good, and often great. The acting is plagued by bad writing. Big props to the actors.
In terms of quality, this series is a rollercoaster from start-to-end. There's a good amount of -really good stuff-. But there's just a whole bunch of 'meh' included.
I give it a 7/10 because of the dedication these amazing actors and actresses have to their craft. They bring these characters alive. They breathe life into a fictional world that I love. Most notably, thank you Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira for this epic love story you've told.
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live: The Last Time (2024)
A Lot of Confusion helmed by a satisfying Conclusion
I don't think this episode was written or directed amazingly well.
The Briefing was... disappointing. You're led to believe it's this massive life-changing thing but then it's just... it's just a thing. The whole dialogue between Rick and the general is generally just... decent. It's not bad or terrible, nor great or amazing. Good, maybe? More like... ehh, decent. It doesn't blow you up with surprise nor does it tear you down with dread. It's just more of what you might've expected.
Thorn's last scene... eh. She believed in what she believed. Rick and Michonne believed in what they did. Big hollers for the ones who believe in their opinions. Nothing particularly satisfying about the conclusion to her character.
That scene at the end though? Richonne with their kids? That bumps this episode up from a seven to an eight.
Ultimately, this story would be better off if it had better running. TWD (as this on-going universe that it is) could go so, -so- far... if its shows were better ran.
A solid 8/10 of what could've easily been an 11/10 with a great showrunner.
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live: What We (2024)
Greatest Walking Dead Episode of All Time
Whereas the last episode brought the show back to form in terms of compelling action and thrills, this one brought back the meat of what truly made the original series such a compelling journey in its original few seasons: the drama between people.
What We exemplifies what TWOL is about and does it without missing a beat: a story about two people who love each other over anything, truly.
With incredible dialogue from start to finish and each scene making my heart throb.
Incredible cinematography as well.
Finally getting to see Rick truly open up and become whole again THROUGH love...
I was hard on the series at first. This episode however, will from now on be the golden standard, and it's what finally makes this series its own complete piece of art, no longer needing comparisons to the original series. A perfect blossoming 10/10.
The Gentlemen: Refined Aggression (2024)
Masterclass in Comedy and Drama
Absolute masterclass of an episode.
The direction and the ideas presented on the screen are fun and interesting and unlike the kind of thing you'd see on any regular show. The writing is where the story truly shines though; as seemingly every word to come from anyone's mouth is somehow perfectly fitting for each character and each moment. Top-notch dialogue with top-notch delivery.
The story never drags, instead going the opposite with twists and turns all-round while hitting you with roundabout kicks of wicked humour. Tension ramps up with every single scene, completely investing you.
As mentioned before, the humour is wicked and doesn't miss once, but that doesn't take away from the drama of genuine human emotion presented, especially in the final moments of the episode.
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live: Bye (2024)
... And We're Back in Form
Finally, the show sticks to its strengths and finds the magic that the old school Walking Dead had.
The episode wasn't clear of cringy dialogue or boring character journeys by any means (mainly Rick's lines early on and Thorn's character in general is lacking), but the good vastly outshined the bad this time.
The setpieces looked incredible, the music was fantastic and the world felt alive. It is satisfying to see the "true" Rick unravel from the shell of this broken man. Michonne is once again fantastic in every scene she's in. The action was fun and satisfying and felt like true TWD.
Jadis was one of the worst villains in the original series, yet here she's absolutely phenomenal and with a great performance from the actress to match.
I liked the callbacks in the episode as well, especially with Thorn acting like Shane.
Overall, a good episode. Hoping this trend continues for the next 3 episodes.
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live: Years (2024)
My Favorite Character in Fiction Returns! And I Almost Want to Turn it Off
Starts off fantastically. The story follows an entirely new side of Rick, which makes for a lot of potentially great storytelling.
And yet, the episode is quickly held back by boring fake-deep dialogue, uses the f-bomb like it's proud of it (seriously, it is cringy), and characters speaking dialogue that sounds like a wikipedia page. (Exposition)
The intro is great!
Introduces one of the most interesting characters to grace The Walking Dead, only to kill him off in the same episode.
Overall, the show looks and sounds great, and even a badly written show can be enjoyable when it's helmed by Andrew Lincoln and his usual stellar performance.
It was nice to see Rick! It'd be almost as nice to see a new showrunner for next season.
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live: Gone (2024)
More Potential Enshrouded by Soulless Writing & Direction
The second episode follows Michonne with a new batch of uninteresting characters who have nothing to do with the story other than give Michonne a reason to hate the villains.
Terrible expositionary dialogue. Another classic case of Gimple Speech, with most of it said by Nat who was otherwise a compelling character... who belongs in another story. We've been waiting for 5 years to see Rick. Give us Rick.
Generic use of generic TV OST music.
On the plus side, the production is great. The show looks better than TWD ever did. Costumes are fantastic and walkers look great as usual. Richonne ++++