The director and cast does a terrific job with the script they got. Where's the smart writing? Where's the foreshadowing? The scenes with tension and suspension has no heart as the writers never took time to build it up, build up leads to good storytelling and satisfying scenes. About the writing and the scope of things, how they're relying on the anthology format in what was a serialized TV show. It's among the better episodes but that doesn't say much, but it might possibly be the best so far. "The Portrait" was surprisingly a great episode, it exceeded my expectations. But seeing these two groups go against each other was something the season have built towards, extremely slowly. Instead it's more focused on the "Stalkers", the writers doesn't even know what a stalker is. But the confrontation between him and Morgan Jones is something I looked forward to and it wasn't what I expected. That's the premise of the episode and well I still dislike the direction Victor Strand is taking as it's not him. When baby Mo gets sick, Morgan successfully pleads for entry into Strand's Tower Morgan quickly learns even Strand's benevolence has its limits. But I get it, they have created this nuclear aftermath fantasy and that's all it is, a fantasy because of how badly the execution was. The dialogue is still quite bad which it has been since season 4 and the overall writing feels unrealistic. But the showrunners are finally moving on with the story and it has lots of things I've been looking forward to, things I thought would appear in episode 3 but here we are on episode 7.07 and nearly half way through. The writing is flawed yet meeting the showrunners standard. There's not that many flaws with this episode, thankfully. The sound editing and musical score is fantastic. She does an amazing job with the direction and visual storytelling, the camera work and cinematography are all quite great. Heather Cappiello directed this week's episode of Fear TWD.
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