TWD veteran Michael E. Satrazemis is back in the director chair for episode 6.08 which was supposed to be the mid-season finale for Fear's sixth season but because of the pandemic it serves as the mid-season premiere. It's a brilliant episode, the writing and directing is great and so is of course the acting but more on that below.
The Door isn't a conclusion to any story arc as it's a big and is told throughout the whole season of something that started in season 5. But what the episode does well, and well perfect even is how all the character development throughout the season and how the plot have developed, subtle or big. But for the people who have followed the sixth season, you will enjoy the episode, I'm sure of it.
This episode is all about John Dorie and the actor who plays him, the remarkable person and actor Garret Dillahunt. He have showed how great of an actor he is, and he does it again here. Morgan and Dakota have also a huge presence in the episode, Lennie James and Zoe Margaret Colletti does a fantastic job too but Dillahunt steals every scene he is in. If you like the good gunslinger then you will enjoy this episode as it delves deeper than ever before on who John Dorie is, the previous episode that did this was "Laura" which was a bottle episode of how John and June met.
The Door offers great action sequences plus meaningful drama and of course drives the plot forward in a big way. I'm just sad that we didn't get this as a mid-season finale as it was probably among the best episodes of the season, it took the showrunners two full seasons to really give us a season worth remembering but the character development throughout those two seasons is why this season and the anthology format works. I have grown to care about the characters as much as Ian Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss.
