Breathe with Me

At least this one is more adequate than the previous episodes. I even felt something other than annoyance-empathy, gratitude, understanding... and hope. I do hope, that Wendell will get back to the show, since Daryl Mitchell promised his partner Mo he was ready for another season. :) Nice episode. At last.

Evil power hungry Strand. Dictator cap and jacket to boot. Seems the writers have run out of ideas for the next bad foe to go against so they make one of the group the villain. Why should Strand have such enmity toward Morgan, to the point of trying to kill him in the submarine? He now takes evil delight in denying certain people entrance to the tower. He even has the stereotypical devoted underling at his side trying to look menacing. It's almost laughable.

There are a lot of coincidences on Fear. Necessary no doubt to move the story along. Morgan popping up in the nick of time in this ep and so many others. The real WTF moment came when the truck Sara and Josiah was in flew down a fifty foot mountainside and landed grill first on the ground. No injuries at all. They weren't even wearing seat belts.

Reminded me of the Saturday serials at local theatres back before tv in the 40's. At the end of each episode Batman ,in this care, would be in a harrowing situation. Trapped in an airplane in one episode that showed B M struggling to get loose,, then boom, the plane exploded. No way could he have survived, but the next Saturday when the show started B M had a lot more time to get loose than they made it look like in the preceding episode. Those Serials were cheap as heck and terribly acted.

I personally didn't mind the first 2 episodes this season, despite the glaring inconsistencies in science and logic of fallout and radiation that just can't be ignored. Episode 3 was a bit of a slog but all 3 of these episodes are redeemed by the lead actors Lennie James, Coleman Domingo, Karen David, Jenna Elfman and Keith Carradine. Mo Collins however, is clearly not good enough to Carry an episode on her own, as is shown in this episode. Luckily the new character Josiah is promising enough to keep us somewhat interested.

Everything Sarah did or said in this episode seemed so awkward, every movement and every line of dialogue was just so... off.

It's sad to see how the show has deteriorated since Season 6, which in my opinion is the best in the series or at least on par with Season 3. It certainly isn't doing the show any favours that a lot of the best characters still have yet to appear - namely Dwight and Alycia.

At the end of the episode I was seriously expecting violins to start playing - yes, it was that lame. Lots of things that were so illogical that I don't want to waste my time enumerating. I hope this season will be the last, and that's a pity given that the season 6 was possibly the best season of the whole franchise, that is until they decided to go forward with this nuclear blast storyline. Nuclear blast and Teddy just killed the whole show.

Tara Nicole Weyr directed this week's episode of Fear TWD. She does an amazing job with the direction and visual storytelling, the camera work and cinematography are all quite great. The sound editing and musical score is fantastic. Though an impressive production, the good things sadly stop there. The writing is flawed and unbearable at times, the dialogue are mostly unrealistic but meets the showrunners standard. At least the sets are improved in this episode, using some nice scenery and locations instead of its B movie sets that is the nuclear wasteland.

Against the advice of the group, Sarah searches for Wendell, and in the process encounters a dangerous survivor who forces her to take part in a search of his own. That's the premise of the episode and well it's nice to see Emile's twin brother getting some screen time before his cameo in episode 2. Having Sarah be the focus and perspective, thus putting characters like Luciana and Al on the bench along with everyone else who escaped via the helicopter, honestly it sickens me. Sarah is a decent character and Mo Collins does a good job but honestly in terms of Fear TWD and its characters, choosing Sarah instead of Luciana is just wrong on so many levels. Sarah is a good side character but she's far from a leading character. I have wondered what happened to Wendell, but making an entire episode focused on Sarah trying to find him is just bad because of how it's only her and not others. Are they even main characters anymore? Or just guest appearances.

"Breathe with Me" was overall a decent episode, but it didn't meet my expectations. It was better than the previous two episodes but that doesn't say anything, all the problems that this season is having still exists in this episode. For a serialized TV show, this episode shows once again how this season have failed immensely on that level. But on the technical side of things, is where the episode shines with great cinematography and direction. Though a decent episode: the writing, pacing and showrunners anthology format drags the rating down immensely. I also want to address my opinion regarding the focus and plot of this season, so far. The truth? There are too many characters and the showrunners have only added, there is no real tension or unpredictable nature in the show anymore. So many of the interesting and main characters gets almost no screen time. Focusing solely on Victor Strand and his community and Morgan Jones, their rivalry, their feud. Would have been great storytelling, but the writers and showrunners are unable to succeed in the execution. I need to bring up something... Again. Why don't they just leave, it's confirmed by now that they can. Showrunners, don't go through with an idea when you haven't fully thought it out yet. It makes for a terrible TV show. Also the car crash, wow that was bad.