Stories We Tell Ourselves

"Stories We Tell Ourselves" was written by Brenna Kouf and was directed by Gandja Monteiro. For this episode, both the writing and direction is quite great, mostly the direction and acting. I'm so happy the writing and dialogue haven't changed since the first episode, consistent writing and great writing at that. The whole production is impressive and I'm glad AMC brought them the budget needed, everything looks great, even the VFX. Sound design and the musical score was great, which brought suspense and tension to every scene. This episode was beautifully shot, great cinematography! The editing deserves some praise too, especially the pacing which is perfect.

Truths are unearthed and motives are revealed as Maggie, Negan and the others travel further into the city's depths.

We are now on the fifth episode of The Walking Dead: Dead City. The direction in this episode is truly terrific and I can say the same about the writing, the dialogue and the different set pieces which were written into the script. Gaius Charles is great as Perlie Armstrong, giving this raw and interesting performance with believability, the more we see and learn, the less cartoonish he becomes after his introduction in the first episode. I can now say he's a well written character which brings much to TWD: Dead City, and Gaius Charles gave the episode's best performance. Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan are once again terrific. Getting to know more of the backstory and what happened through flashbacks is needed to fill the gaps and explain what is exactly happening behind the scenes, I have long believed that something was off with Maggie and the more we see, the more antagonistic she seems which is a nice little twist to the beloved character. Moral choices have long been important to the franchise and seeing her character this way might feel bad for some but I enjoy it, as if you witness something like the thing she witnessed, I'm sure your psyche won't be good. We have finally got to see Maggie's trauma up close. The sewer sequence and the zombie action, unpredictable and terrifying, full of suspension. The Walker King or whatever you want to call it, it's cool but you see the inspiration from The Last of Us 2 which has a similar character called Rat King. I liked the scene though, also the whole sewer sequence. For The Croat's scenes, we get to see him converse and meet a new character which seems like the true leader of Manhattan, Lisa Emery plays the character "The Dama". Brilliant performer who does a fantastic performance. This was a good episode but serves mostly as a build up episode for the season finale.

This show is just continuing with poor storytelling like the last few seasons of TWD or the entire series of FTWD. Despite that the main cast would be great, it's just not entertaining. In episode 5 happened sort of a plot twist. But instead of enjoying it, I found myself just not caring about it due to the boring character arcs.

I honestly don't understand how you can mess up a show like this so badly only because of poor storytelling.

Despite of that it has a great main cast with already established characters from the main show, high potential and (probably still) a solid fan base. Is this some kind of strike from the writer's guild already, that made it into the show?

Maggie, Ginny, Amaia and Tommaso escape from The Croat and the Burazi through the sewer system, which has methane. After a while, Tommaso finds two breathing apparatuses while Amaia question why their plan did not work and the Burazis seem to know that they were coming. Maggie discloses that Tommaso betrayed them and Amaia breaks with her lover. Soon they decide to rest together with a pile of walkers and Amaia is attacked. Tommaso tries to protect her and is also bitten by the walkers. Meanwhile, Negan lures Armstrong and subdues him. But he does not leave the marshal behind and brings him to a school bus and uses the medical kit to clean Armstrong's wound.

"Stories We Tell Ourselves" is a stupid episode of "The Walking Dead: Dead City". In addition to Ginny's appearance in Manhattan, we have also the following situations: (1) Maggie, Ginny, Amali and Tommaso resting from their escape in a sewer crowded of walkers. Did they need to stop in that space to rest? (2) After the deaths of Amaia and Tommaso, there is still a breathing apparatus without use, Why Maggie does not use it and avoid being dizzy and hallucinating? (3) Why Negan shows compassion with a man that wanted to deliver him to the new justice and is delaying his escape? Negan was merciless in many other situations and his attitude is difficult to be explained. This new character of the fifth episode is another difficult to be swallowed. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Stories We Tell Ourselves"

After watching, I firmly believe this show was testing the limits of how many commercials can tolerated before losing viewers. Took me a very long time to finish the only (6) episodes, and the commercials were one of the reasons.

Only (6) episodes? This isn't a GoT level show that's movie quality production, tells several large stories, and fills a season in (10) episodes. Oh wait, this was only a mere (6).

Boring, slow, poor writing. The best of the best survivors once again back to making poor choices all the time.

I do not recommend this at all. The best decision made with this was not to have something like Talking Dead afterwards again.

I loved this and don't understand the negative reviews. The Walkers for the first time in a long long time were actually scary and threatening(No Spoilers) This for me is the best episode of the Series so far . I'm just about to watch the next .I think Negans gonna go Dark by the final episode its looking that way . Im just waffling now to use up Characters . ASLAN are the greatest Irish Rock Band of all time and if you never heard of them you really Should check them out . THIS IS, A CRAZY WORLD ,AND ITS TO LATE FOR HALLELUJAH. I've still Fifty one Characters to use,the old barn door was the table we had and the table we had was the old barn door.