Paris Sera Toujours Paris

After a brief stop in Angers, including a bizarre zombie orchestra performing Boléro, Daryl's group finally reaches Paris. There, after a poignant encounter with a little girl - now a zombie - who used to be Isabelle's neighbor, they meet a community led by a man named Fallou. With their help, Daryl seeks out information on a ship that can return him to America, which leads the group to the Demimonde nightclub and a reunion with Isabelle's ex-boyfriend Quinn. Quinn reveals that he is Laurent's father and demands that Isabelle and Laurent stay with him in exchange for his help. Daryl rejects the deal and prepares to set out on his own after an argument with Isabelle, leading to Laurent running away after overhearing them. Codron meets with Genet, who agrees to let him lead the search for Daryl while her people continue experimenting with walkers. Pouvoir attacks Fallou's community and Isabelle searches for Laurent, while Daryl falls through a roof following a brutal fight with Codron.

Continuing Daryl's mission to return home, he and his companions need to cross Paris. As soon as they arrive, we meet a group that has developed in the outskirts of the city of light. I'm really enjoying the way the series is portraying Paris, which since the last episode has been approached as a character apart from the series, showing that the city functions - obviously differently - even after the end of the world. The scale and proportion that the technical aspects are taking in this spin-off are exceptional. Simply cinematic. As for the new group shown here, it's what I say every episode: another generic community that doesn't add to the story, except for making Laurent help a grieving woman, which further enhances the belief that the boy is the new Messiah. The leader of the community even shows to be an interesting character, leading the group to a place where Daryl can get the boat to return to the United States. This character was a great addition to the series' cast, and I genuinely hope he returns in future episodes.

Upon arriving at this new location, we discover that Isabelle's ex-husband, Quinn, is Laurent's father, which means he had a relationship with both sisters. I didn't expect anything from this character to reappear (since he was shown as a supporting character in the previous episode) and even less that he would be the boy's father. On the other hand, it seems that this hook left will play a relevant role in the development of the relationship between Isabelle and Laurent, as she now has one more thing to hide from the boy. Hopefully, this will have an impact on the plot and not just be an irrelevant revelation that leads nowhere.

Another scene that caught my attention here in this episode was the moment Isabelle returns to her old home with Daryl. The dialogue and similarities between the two characters create a chemistry between them in a surprisingly quick way, but enough to make us attach to them. With this character's growth and The Walking Dead's history of killing off characters just as they're growing, unfortunately, it is possible that her death will occur at the end of the season.

The scene of the walkers falling from the building and resisting shows the danger of the variants, which have been the great attraction of this series. However, what stands out most in this sequence is the walker child Aimeé, who was Isabelle's neighbor. Before the world fell - as shown in the previous episode - Isabelle didn't want to talk about what was happening to not scare the girl. When we see Isabelle leaving the building to leave Paris, she is looking at the little girl, and her concern about what could happen to the girl is clear - and it happens. This even shows a different approach since we rarely see walker children in all the productions of the universe. Here we see again the issue of experiments with the variants, now with an agile and strong walker, who can easily break free from chains. It is still uncertain whether these variants will actually become troublesome at some point or if they will remain only in these isolated samples, but it is really exciting to see these new walkers, and this ends up giving a breath to the franchise.

But overall, the feeling is of an arbitrary story. If in the first episodes we had those medieval inspirations, now everything here has a foot in the contemporary, especially in the nightclub block. The series' language is random, even in the way the characters' journey is not well delineated, because at one moment they are going somewhere, at another they change their minds, one moment Daryl wants a radio, the next he wants to help Isabelle get a photo of her sister... I understand the appreciation for a more intimate chapter, but better dialogues and a dramaturgy with weight are lacking for the conversations between Daryl and Isabelle to gain emotion.

Furthermore, I am having difficulty understanding the characters' arcs. Daryl seems like a visitor on the adventure, doing what they ask of him and serving as a leader whenever danger comes, but we haven't had any development that advances or makes us reflect on the character's traumas and past events, or any element that shows any kind of evolution. It's the same old Daryl. As for Isabelle, she is a compilation of generic elements from the franchise, and Laurent, well, so far this chosen prophet metaphor doesn't make much sense, and these suggestions that he is special are insufficient to create any dramatic interest in the story.

Fear The Walking Dead is better mainly the acting,visuals,make-up,editing and camera filter don't understand why this and Dead City receive so many high ratings while Fear TWD final seasons receive so much massive hate the TWD fanbase is beyond sick and these IMDB ratings should be completely ignored...worse than critic reviews!

Fear The Walking Dead is better don't understand why this and Dead City receive so many high ratings while Fear TWD final seasons receive so much massive hate the TWD fanbase is beyond sick and these IMDB ratings should be completely ignored...worse than critic reviews!

Daryl, Isabelle, Laurent and Sylvie arrive in Angers, where Isabelle has a friend that may have a radio; however, the man is completely insane, and Daryl decides to go to Paris. Once in Paris, they go to the cemetery where they meet Fallou Boukar and his men. He introduces his group and brings Isabelle and her group to his community. Daryl asks for a radio since he wants to return to the United States, and Fallou Boukar tells him that he will take him to a place where he can negotiate everything. Isabelle goes with Daryl to her apartment, and she gets a photo of Lily at the Eiffel Tower and her valuable belongings stole when she was a thief. On the next day, they go to an underground night-club in the catacombs to negotiate a boat for Daryl. Isabelle stumbles upon Quinn, who owns the club, and learns who the father of Laurent is. Meanwhile, Stéphane Codron meets Marion Genet telling her that he is hunting down Daryl, and she hires him to join the Pouvoir.

"Paris Sera Toujours Paris" is a reasonable episode of "The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon". The beginning of the episode is hilarious, with the insane man conducting an orchestra of walkers. It is not clear yet how Daryl traveled to France and the beef with the powerful Marion Genet. Now that Isabelle knows who the father of Laurent is, lets see if she will tell the teenager that she is his aunt and guardian. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Paris Sera Toujours Paris"

Is it really so important to annoy the squares that you have to put a drag show in the middle of the zombie apocalypse? Like after all these years people who are still wearing makeup and false eyelashes and playing/ singing loud music in the middle of the city would be the ones still alive? Seriously? One of the things that always made The Walking Dead good was that for such an unrealistic (zombies) show it was actually hyper realistic and the characters' development etc was too. Not any more I guess. Just make Z Nation if you want to but stop calling this kind are garbage The Walking Dead. It's embarrassing pandering. Good job, you've annoyed everyone. Can we move on now to a plot?

I have been a fan of the original show since the start. While some of the others such as fear and Tales have there plus and minuses, this one has but one good quality, Norman Reedus. If it wasn't for him, I would have given up on this show a while ago. Problem number one, boring as heck. They are trying to put far to much substance into a show about zombies. I don't care about most of the characters, a lesson that TWD has taught us several times. Two, I don't believe that I should need to know French in order to watch this show. Most of the interactions are not subtitled and they loose me with what little plot they have. They need to call this Walking Dead Europe, please watch our show.