King County

Having been a fan since day one, season one, episode one, seeing the events in this episode reminds me of why I stopped caring a season or two ago, about the time 'A world beyond' premiered. The characters there told us the Mississippi bridges were destroyed during the outbreak, yet Morgan walked to Texas. Now, he's back in Georgia, followed all the way back from Texas, by Grace, in a truck, and Deight and Sheri on horseback, as well as half of PADRE. Hundreds of miles, across 5 states, across the Big Muddy. Oh, and the hand-held radio transmits and receives across the distance? Let's not even discuss treating the bites with radiation.

Actually not as terrible as the rest of the season so far. Definitely the best episode we've seen from this show in a long time, maybe since Season 6. Great character for development for Dwight, Grace and Morgan. I really enjoy Dwight and Morgan's friendship and this episode did a good job of selling it.

The only downside is that the main arc (Morgan putting his past to rest) did kind of get dragged out but the payoff was somewhat decent so Im willing to look past it. Bonus points for revisiting the house from the pilot, it looked exactly the same as it did 10+ years ago.

The next episode actually looks half-decent too, but I wont get my hopes up just yet. This season has had a rough start.

Kenneth Requa directed this episode of the final season of Fear TWD, his direction and visual storytelling was actually quite great. 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. Great set and production design, I love how much has changed in King County since last time we were here, it's overgrown.

Morgan's return to King County gets complicated when PADRE comes to collect.

"King County" is the fourth episode of the eighth and final season, it's a good episode, both good and bad at times all depending on how much you want to criticize. Episode four actually has good drama and Morgan finally feels like Morgan again, he has some great zombie kills and it's nice to see Lennie James show off his acting chops again. The writing was actually good in this episode, not much I can criticize, the dialogue is finally good or at least for this episode. Honestly, this was the episode I looked most forward to and it didn't disappoint. I think the writers/showrunners did justice for Morgan, in going back to his past and such. I'm just glad Fear The Walking Dead can be good and not awful or average, it's a nice change of pace. The episode also ends with you waiting eagerly for the next episode, that's how you should end a episode, with suspension. There were plenty of tension and suspension in this episode. King County, how did it feel going back to that location, which is the town Rick Grimes found himself in the pilot episode of The Walking Dead. I felt happy throughout the episode and satisfied when the episode had come to an end.

Hello, is anyone left here, After multiple series of decline and fumbling the season premiere proved this sinking boat was going nowhere but down, and when the boat is sinking everyone abandons ship.

No one is talking about this series because there's no one left watching it. There's no motivation to do so we've all accepted it is not worth it, there's no John Dorie Moments, no insight, no thrill, there's just budget and low level crew using the opportunity to practice above their station. That's what this series feels like. Test footage.

We've had so many series disappoint as they go one but I guess the walking dead series can take comfort in them being early adopters for the principle.

Morgan returns to King County, Georgia on a quest to put down his zombified son, Duane. Grace and Mo follow him, as well as Dwight and Sherry, who were forced into hunting Morgan by Shrike. Morgan reveals his wife, Jenny, bit Duane after he couldn't bring himself to put her down when he had the chance. Morgan and Grace are eventually captured and forced to show Shrike's forces that they are telling the truth about Morgan's mission, but they find no sign of Duane. Dwight and Sherry kill the guards with them, unwilling to allow Morgan to be executed, and help Finch escape from Shrike's captivity.

Left alone, Grace confesses to Morgan that she is terminally ill from radiation sickness. While trying to escape from Morgan's burning house, Mo discovers her father chained up Duane in the attic years before during his period of insanity. With Mo in danger, Morgan is finally able to shoot Duane with the gun that Rick Grimes had left for him and buries Jenny and Duane's bodies. Shortly thereafter, a walker bites Grace, and Morgan vows to get her to June for help.

Recently, we've seen various works that rely on nostalgia to elicit emotions from the audience but fail to use it to enrich the screenplay as a whole. Fortunately, this is not the case with "King County," the fourth episode of the 8th and final season of "Fear the Walking Dead." It wouldn't be absurd to consider this one of the best episodes of the entire spin-off because what we find here is not an episode of "Fear the Walking Dead," but rather an episode of "The Walking Dead." After a third episode full of errors and inconsistencies, the series gifts us with a nostalgic fourth episode that simultaneously advances the story and concludes character arcs that started more than a decade ago.

One of the most forced aspects of the entire episode is the ease with which characters know where Morgan (Lennie James) is headed. The episode attempts to explain this inconsistency, but the justification is hardly plausible and makes it seem like the characters know his location just because the script needs them there at that moment. The episode features very well-written text rich in its most minimalist details and boasts highly competent direction. However, the scene where Finch (Gavin Warren) attacks Shrike (Maya Eshet) with a chair and easily escapes from the PADRE base seems extremely poorly conducted.

Additionally, it highlights an escalating problem with each episode: PADRE are the most foolish villains in the entire franchise. It is remarkable how easily characters escape the base or confront their "soldiers." As seen in the first and third episodes of the season, where Madison (Kim Dickens) and Mo (Zoey Merchant) leave PADRE's fortress with absurd ease, or how Daniel (Rubén Blades) manages to ambush and capture members of the group without any difficulty. These issues related to the group's incapability and how easy it becomes to subdue them removes all tension, mystery, and danger around them, making these new villains, instead of being threatening, laughable.

Revisiting this iconic setting from the first season of the main series brings back to this universe a taste of the sensation this work caused at the beginning, besides making us reflect on everything that happened to these characters over time. Revisiting the house where Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and Morgan hid from zombies in the first episode of this universe reminds us and makes us rethink the entire journey these two characters had over the years, and reflect on who they were and who they have become. When the episode explores these settings, which were very well recreated by the way, it constantly makes us reflect and use this narrative mirror. This goes from the evolution of the characters to the entire work of scenery deterioration. How dead and destroyed this world is and how much humanity these characters have lost over the years.

Revisiting King County brings back dark memories and triggers the most questionable part of his sanity in the character. Then, he finds himself in a situation where he needs to gather strength to move forward or let his past literally kill his future, as in the scene where Morgan needs to shoot Duane to save Mo. This is not just a scene that shows the character managed to confront his "ghosts," but also a scene that shows he gave up his past, in this case his son, to dedicate himself to the future. The scene shows that he finally managed to detach from his old family so that he could live his new life.

Besides the hallucinations he has with his ex-wife Jenny (Keisha Tillis), which appear every time he needs to make a crucial decision. When he finally manages to ignore her, he sets aside his dead wife to care for and save his current wife, Grace (Karen David), who is dying. After ignoring Jenny and finally ending Duane, Morgan manages not only to let go of his past but also to commit to the future. And the scene that cements this character transition is when he buries his ex-wife and son, where he seals his past and places a white flower on their graves, symbolizing forgiveness and peace. "Forgiveness," as he says in front of their grave, and Peace symbolizes his current state of finally having managed to detach from his past. The white flower may also represent the character's passage to a new life and a new journey that lies ahead. These scenes are symbolic, and the text is very rich in finally putting an end to this story. In the end, what is conveyed is a feeling of conclusion, not only of a character arc but also of a cycle.