Bizarre that I come to find specifically this episode after watching it to find it is not only the lowest rated of the season, but of the entire series. Yeah, ok. Little odd. Started reading the "reviews" and started to see the trend. Real discourse provides the one thing they disliked, or liked, rest is hired posts. Strangely, this particular episode has skewed nonsensical distaste for its existence for barely a reason.
This episode. THIS episode, is what made this show great to begin with. Visceral, honesty, and in-the-moment pacing. Literally everything Johnathan Scarfe brings anytime he's on camera, especially during the entirety of season 1, but out of the blue.
The series has been slowly transcending into the CW-level of fantasy trifle that blurs episodic progress together. It barely matters and never leaves a forged memory even minutes after you've finished. It's supernatural junk food. What made this show special, was the raw honesty and realistic pacing Johnathan Scarfe's character forced this series to focus on, protecting sleepy beauty. How? For how long? Who can help? It was all a natural progression in an apocalypse.
Did not matter that the antagonist was vampire, zombies, sharks, or a vegetable. The audience simply watched and kept watching what Johnathan Scarfe's character did next and that was the used while the backdrop kept getting more and more belligerently supernatural. This episode returned to S01E01 with a passion. Fantastic acting, cinematography, and character driven reaction to consistently changing situations around them.
This episode couldn't have costed much and was the most expansive and effective in terms of character development not seen since we heard Johnathan's monologue reflecting on life while on a blood IV to support Doc during a zombie apocalypse. The writing and story boarding IS masterclass, yet, poetic for the way it allows the viewer to appreciate the little things in the most surreal situations. Ask me how I know. Excelsior.
