Odessa

Ok, so episode 1&2 start e with a crazy aggressive pace. Pulling no punches.

Episode 2 was crazy extreme by the shows standard. And then this happened.

Literally the flip a coin every second to get ho gets to point the guns at whom. There is like 10 changes if power with z or credibility as to how any of it happens. Then the back story is dragged out crazy long. And was a complete underwhelming story.

There is arbitrary killing, murder, child victimization, but none of the good guys can pull the trigger in the main 2 bad guys????

This episode was so sad and boring. Not sure why they didn't at least edit out 15 min to keep the same pace as last episode. Plot would have been still underwhelming. But it might not have been as bad.

Ron Underwood directed this episode of the final season of Fear TWD, his direction and visual storytelling was good. The cinematography and editing were great, with some nice transitions. The episode looks great, nothing wrong there, with some great shots and camera angles. The sound editing and musical score is fantastic.

Mo's hunt to prove PADRE's true intentions has her in over her head as she's drawn into the larger web of secrets.

"Odessa" is the third episode of the eighth and final season, it's an average episode, both good and bad at times all depending on how much you want to criticize. Episode three has more of June and actually a Kim Dickens who seems to care of her performance, it's better but far from the same quality she gave her performance in S1-3. One performance I just can't get behind is Maya Eshet as Shrike, I just find her performance to be wooden and far from terrifying. We also get to see Daniel Salazar again, seeing Ruben and Kim share scenes again made me smile but the dialogue is poorly written like most of the dialogue in this is. Good direction though and the actors make it bearable. I still find the whole plot to be quite ridiculous, PADRE is a cartoonish group and haven't improved, Shrike's flashbacks are unnecessary and worsens the pacing. Something Erik Kain of Forbes wrote was quite interesting, how Mo is 8 years old but is played by a much older actress and the funny thing is how an eighth year old is acting out of character like a twelve year old, I like the actress who plays Mo though as I think she's doing a good job with what she's getting. The walkie talkies, unrealistic amount of batteries and bullets is another thing to criticize. Yet, this was a decent episode of Fear the Walking Dead, with an ending leaving you wanting more. There's hope that they'll make PADRE into a less cartoonish group, but the ridiculous clothing will probably remain during the season. Their backstory started out interesting but fell flat.

Good April fools joke FearTWD... So where's the real episode?

Wait, it's not April 1st?

THIS is the episode?

This show is such a joke.

Strand is no where to be seen, alright I guess we'll just never see him again, no worries, cheers bro.

Same deal with Luciana, alright all good I guess we'll just forget about her?

The whole PADRE storyline is incredibly stupid and I do not care for it one bit.

Some of the acting is just god awful and oh my the dialogue isn't much better.

Here's some pros and cons of this fabulous, interesting episode,

Cons: everything I've already stated.

Pros: at least that's one less FearTWD episode, only 9 more to go!

I'm dead inside.

After a promising second episode, "Odessa" falls in line with the first episode of the season. We finally get some backstory about who and what Padre really is and it's less then interesting. All of the flash back sequences were extremely dumb and almost felt parody like. We get what should have been a big and emotional reunion in this episode from 2 Fear OGs but instead it felt less then important and rushed. It continues to seem like the writers only try when they want to and when they don't, it's almost like they mash random words and plots together hoping they'll stick. The change in motives every 5 minutes for certain characters is beyond puzzling and starting to get annoying. First with Moe in episode 1 and now Dove in this episode. I hope they pick it up and start finding a more consistent pace for the remainder of this season because if they don't, we could be in for a long ride.

This show just gets worse and worse every single episode. I love to hate it.

The PADRE storyline is one of the worst storylines in any of the Walking Dead shows thus far - and that's really saying something because there have been some tremendous stinkers over the years. The dialog is so horribly written that almost none of the conversations even make sense. Each "shocking revelation" in this episode literally had me laughing out loud at how incredibly dumb it all was. Everything feels like it was written by AI.

At one point one of the new characters, Crane, freaks out because his dad left his binoculars on a boat. He grabs them and says "I've gotta take these to him!" His sister, Shrike, says "why?" - His response? "Because how will he see what's coming without them?" - This is just a taste of how bad the dialog in this show has become. I've got old stories I wrote when I was still in grade school that are better than this absolute dreck.

Last season Daniel was suffering from serious dementia - he could barely remember anything, could hardly function without Luciana tricking him into doing things, and was, at best, a burden on everyone around him if not a dangerous threat to them. This season he's the leader of a group of parents searching for the kids that were stolen from them by Madison (for PADRE). His dementia seems to have been completely cured. This is explained via a throwaway line - Daniel is slurping on a drink and he says "yerba-maté - it's good for mental focus." Wow. Just wow. I can't believe nobody ever tried using yerba-maté to literally *cure* dementia before. Absolutely brilliant writing.

It just keeps getting worse from there. The writers on this show should never be allowed to work again.