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This was a phenomenal bottle episode, and one of Fears best. Pairing Alicia and Charlie was a great idea and made for some interesting scenes and compelling TV. The amount of hate this season is getting is completely unjust, similar to TWD season's 7 and 8.

Up to this point, Alicia has been a relatively immature character. Sure, she's strong and has displayed her strength frequently, but only now are we seeing her evolution from "kid" to adult.

The fact that Alicia was able to refrain from killing Charlie, a person that has taken so much away from her, demonstrates her strength, but how she handled herself helped this change into maturity. Alicia feels the weight of it the entire episode. Even telling Charlie that she can't send her out into the storm. Her mom is already coming through her.

Both Alycia Debnam-Carey and Alexa Nisenson give great performances and only made the episode better. Compelling TV right here. Its episodes like these that remind me of why I love TWD franchise so much. Up to this point, Fear has only had a couple, being the season 4 premiere and John Dorie's bottle episode. I hope this storm arc gives way for a few more episodes like this.

My Rating: 9.5/10

Seriously this episode was one of the best I have seen on tv for a while, it has suspense, drama, action, sadness... I mean what more could you want! I have always been a huge fan of both shows and don't understand why the reviews on here are not better! I know it's not perfect but this show deserves more than it gets, not to mention the oustanding acting that this episode saw! I'm excited for what's to see after the storm!!!

Beautifully written episode with gor(e)geous cinematography and great acting. Like the previous two-character-episodes of both FTWD and TWD, I really enjoyed this. Usually when you position plot devices early on, it is way to predictable what they will be used for later on. Not here. While the episode itself is evocative and often rather inventive, it is the small surprises in the writing that really put a smile on my face. Very well written. By far, one of the better episodes this season. Just don't expect full on action. This is a quiet episode, but not in any way a boring one.

I'm still shook with how good this episode was in an overall bad season. Maybe it was the acting that literally blew me away or that fact that it was so heartbreaking, like a punch to the gut, but still, just WOW. They should definitely submit it for acting award consideration. This just landed on my top 5 best episodes of TWDverse.

Really great episode and one of the best this season. Boring? No! Was very impressed by the acting! Great great actresses! Both of them play so well against each other. Character driven great episode

The best episode of the season. Alycia debnam carey is one of the best actresses on tv at the moment and deserves an emmy nomination for this episode alone.

This was by far the best episode of season 4 yet, and one of the most memorable of its entire run. The performances were spectacular from both actresses, making it some of the most intense, harrowing scenes the show has ever done. And even if I am NOT a fan of the awful grey filter of this season, it worked for this episode and the way it was directed. Some of the shots were gorgeous, like the silhouette of Alicia with the light of the window behind or the shot from above the upstairs door when she opens it. Brilliant brilliant stuff.

Gone are the vibrant colors and realistic dialogue of the first 3 seasons. It's now TWD 2.0, and that's not a good thing.

Cheap special effects. Cheap sets. Using minimal characters per episode so they don't have to pay as much. For a second I thought the kid was never going to speak just so they can pay her even less. Shooting in color must be too expensive.

They cheapened it because they think the audience is a bunch of mindless zombies who will watch anything.

It's a 2 person or 2 woman show in this one, It's not the first time it's been done in Walking Dead Universe, I truly hate it when just 2 characters take over a whole episode in a walking dead episode, it ends up being too long, not properly edited and sometimes doesn't add anything substantial to the show.

I've got no problem with 2 characters dominating an episode but other characters in the show should also have scenes interlaced with the said episode to spice it up and balanced out the pacing of show. In this case I believe that scenes of Alicia and Charlie should have been cut down or spread out in 2 episodes to allow scenes of other characters in the show to appear in this episode. I loved how the pacing of the now and before scenes are interlaced with each other from episode 1 to 8 but this episode is certainly one of the most boring ones in the whole Fear The Walking Dead series. There's a few jump scares and suspense towards the end especially when they were locked in the basement during the storm but that doesn't redeem the episode from poorly edited boring scenes.

The 9th and this 10th episode after the mid season has been below average. They better come up with something very interesting, smart and intriguing in the remaining episodes to make up for the early dross after the mid season break unless they wanna see this show canceled by the end of season because of poor ratings.

The episodes that focus heavily on Alycia's acting are always brilliant. She's definitely the best actress on the show. The girl who portrays Charlie is definitely growing on me after this episode--finally allowed that kid to show her range.

At this point, I'm here to make fun of the show. Because there is nothing left. This is not a serious show. It's a soap opera, bust out the tissues, add violins, and let the tears flow. Oh, by the way there's a bunch of people who died and they're back to eat you. But that's just a background. That's filler. That's not important to the writers of this show. They believe the emotions of these contrived characters are more important. So, my only entertainment is to laugh at it.

This is a filler episode with 2 characters, Alycia and Charlie. Char killed Nick, and brought destruction to Alyc's whole family and friends. Now they're stuck in a house, with a storm and Zombies outside. Char Speaks! It's Alive, it's alive. The No Kill Scenario is complete.

So, Alyc abandons Morg, after Morg went with her to help her with her stupid quest to find and help the person leaving HELP notes on zombies. She finds a house with a family of zombies, dispatches them and leaves their bodies outside. Picks up the family photos, one of them shows the 4 family members lying on the ground, almost like the way Alyc left the zombified bodies, and dumps the photos outside. She then finds Char hiding upstairs. What are the chances? Alyc says you can't stay here, and that she wants to be like her mother and save people, and she does not want to kill her. Alyc then decides to leave, tries to open a jammed car door and knocks herself out. Wow! Later Alyc wakes up in the house, upstairs. Char dragged Alyc into the house and upstairs. Yeah, Right!

The bonding begins. Alyc and Char are working together to fortify the house against the storm. Night of the Living Dead anyone? Alyc finds Char's gun and points it at Char, but Char doesn't want to die, and Alyc doesn't kill her. The No Kill! Char saves the family photos Alyc dumped. She then reveals she wishes she had photos of her parents before they died and turned zombie, because she can't recall their faces. Ok, the Soap Opera!

There's a zombie impaled on a branch near the upstairs deck. Char gets close to him, trying for suicide. Didn't she say she didn't want to die? Alyc saves her. There are zombies at the door and windows and now these 2 idiots just sit around eating and talking heart to heart. How cozy. How soapy. Add violins. It's very touching.

Strom blows the door out, the 2 idiots hid in the flooded basement, with a locked outside door. Now Char is scared, that she will become a zombie, and asks Alyc to kill her. Didn't she just put herself in front of the impaled zombie? Hello writers?! Are you awake? What's going on? The impaled zombie crashes through the locked basement door, and Alyc and Char escape. He saved us they say. Bonding continues. The storm passed, they bury the family and put their photos in a jar next to them. How nice.

Now we have the Alyc and Char duo. The No Kill is complete. They find the Luc and Vic house and Cowboy Johns bus abandoned. Alyc gives Char her stupid stabbing weapon. Bonding!

So, what are we to make of all this? Char the Backstabber, the person responsible for the death of Alyc's mother and directly killing her brother, is now Alyc's little sister. We never find out how Char got involved with the Vultures, or why she killed Nick. We got a bunch of nonsense about Char's parents and that she never saw the beach, and Alyc told her to CLOSE HER EYES and told her about the beach. They sat around a house with zombies at the door just hanging out talking about their emotions, that Alyc wants to be like her mother and save people. Bla bla bla.

We are supposed to buy all this? Ask yourself if you find the little bastard who orchestrated the death of your family members, by the way while there's a zombie apocalypse currently happening, what you would do. After the battle with the killing machine trio of Alyc/Luc/Vic and a hundred vultures where all the vultures are killed, and nobody from Alyc side is harmed, we are expected to believe that Alyc has adopted the No Kill Scenario. How? Was it Morg? Is Morg responsible for all this?

Only thing left with this show is to make fun of it. It has no credibility. The zombies are only a backdrop. They are the background musicians for elevator music.

You have killed off 2 main characters and now you are filming in grey looks crap. You have Alicia who was like Rambo trying to kill everyone one minute now wanting to be pals with the kid that lead the band of killers to her that cause her mum to died and shot her brother. WTF

Simply awful. The episode is cliche, corny, cheesy -you name it- throughout the entire runtime. On top of that, the length was dragged out to meet the 45 minute TV slot through mind-numbing stretches of no dialogue, just pans around the stupid house where the episode took place or shots 5x too long of Alicia and Charlie doing pointless things, like mourning over pictures of random dead people. Or, we could also see invigorating shots of them doing things we didn't need to see at all, like Alicia walking around the house looking for walkers, aka the first 9 minutes of the damn episode.

The lines delivered, intended to be emotional and moving, felt so predictable, and, as mentioned earlier, in style of the 3 C's...

This episode just made me hate Charlie even more and made me respect Alicia a lot less. Who thought it was a good idea to center an entire episode around such uncharismatic characters?

Oh, of course, Scott Gimple did. The new show runner after David Erickson left. And, like the original Walking Dead, Gimple poisoned this show with his toxic boredom and cheesiness.

God i hate when they don't make people talk. Give us more adult focused episodes. No more kids.

At this point, I'm here to make fun of the show. Because there is nothing left. This is not a serious show. It's a soap opera. Bust out the tissues, add violins, and let the tears flow. Oh, by the way there's a bunch of people who died and they're back to eat you. But that's just a background. That's filler. That's not important to the writers of this show. They believe the emotions of these contrived characters are more important. So, my only entertainment is to laugh at it.

This is a filler episode with 2 characters, Alycia and Charlie. Char killed Nick, and brought destruction to Alyc's whole family and friends. Now they're stuck in a house, with a storm and Zombies outside. Char Speaks! It's Alive, it's alive. The No Kill Scenario is begins.

So, dumbass Alyc abandons Morg, after Morg went with her to help her with her stupid quest to find and help the person leaving HELP notes on zombies. She finds a house with a family of zombies, dispatches them and leaves their bodies outside. Picks up the family photos, one of them shows the 4 family members lying on the ground, almost like the way Alyc left the zombified bodies, and dumps the photos outside. She then finds Char hiding upstairs. What are the chances? Alyc says you can't stay here, and that she wants to be like her mother and save people, and she does not want to kill her. Alyc then decides to leave, tries to open a jammed car door and knocks herself out. Wow! Later Alyc wakes up in the house, upstairs. Char dragged Alyc into the house and upstairs. Yeah, Right!

The bonding begins. Alyc and Char are working together to fortify the house against the storm and zombies. Night of the Living Dead anyone? Alyc finds Char's gun and points it at Char, but Char doesn't want to die, and Alyc doesn't kill her. The No Kill! Char saves the family photos Alyc dumped. She then reveals she wishes she had photos of her parents before they died and turned zombie, because she can't recall their faces. Way to humanize Char. Soap Opera!

There's a zombie impaled on a branch near the upstairs deck. Char gets close to him, trying for suicide. Didn't she say she didn't want to die? Alyc saves her. There are zombies at the door and windows and now these 2 idiots just sit around eating and talking heart to heart. How cozy. How soapy. Add violins. It's very touching.

Storm blows the door out, the 2 idiots hid in the flooded basement, with a locked outside door. Now Char is scared, that she will become a zombie, and asks Alyc to kill her. Didn't she just put herself in front of the impaled zombie? Hello writers?! Are you awake? What's going on? The impaled zombie crashes through the locked basement door, and Alyc and Char escape. He saved us they say. Bonding continues. The storm passed, they bury the family and put their photos in a jar next to them. How nice.

Now we have the Alyc and Char duo. The No Kill is complete. They find the Luc and Vic house and Cowboy Johns bus abandoned. Alyc gives Char her stupid stabbing weapon. More Bonding!

So, what are we to make of all this? Char the Backstabber, the person responsible for the death of Alyc's mother and directly killing her brother, is now Alyc's little sister. We never find out how Char got involved with the Vultures, or why she killed Nick. We got a bunch of nonsense about Char's parents and that she never saw the beach, and Alyc told her to CLOSE HER EYES and told her about the beach. They sat around a house with zombies at the door just hanging out talking about their emotions, that Alyc wants to be like her mother and save people. Bla bla bla.

We are supposed to buy all this? Ask yourself if you find the little bastard who orchestrated the death of your family members, by the way while there's a zombie apocalypse currently happening, what you would do. After the battle with the killing machine trio of Alyc/Luc/Vic and a hundred vultures where all the vultures are killed, and nobody from Alyc side is harmed, we are expected to believe that Alyc has adopted the No Kill Scenario. How? Was it Morg? Is Morg responsible for all this?

Only thing left with this show is to make fun of it. It has no credibility. The zombies are only a backdrop. They are the background musicians for elevator music.

Just tell most of the characters to look at the flowers, pull the trigger, and be done with it. As with most of the "character development" episodes of TWD and FTWD, this was plodding and unbelievable.

This show is already on its last legs. They can't afford any more throw away episodes.

I enjoyed the concept of this episode. The sort of forced-reconciliation during a storm we've seen before, but it's good drama. The acting of the young actors is compelling and believable. I wish the script was a little sharper (there are some obvious awkward moments), but with the stumbling pacing and overt moralizing of previous episode it was nice to see something raw and simple.

I think that's been my favorite thing about the FTWD series. We get these distinct little character dramas to play through.

I saw several websites praising this very manipulative episode. I can only assume they greatly enjoyed it because Alicia was the main focus. Thus not a cerebral review but an emotional one. Sure the chick is hot, even in an unwashed, ZA setting. This does not make her Meryl Streep boys. Or a Rocket Scientist.

She made a lot of bad decisions for a seasoned survivor in the 8+ year old ZA.

A. Enters house without making noise to draw out walkers. This is ridiculous. I immediately said they have her NOT doing this to set up better kills inside. Sure, it looks good, but it's retarded, at the same time! The writers are complete dumb asses who want you to believe these people survive despite doing one stupid thing after another.

B. one should thoroughly check a structure for walkers, AFTER you've gotten as many as you can to you outside, as a first and foremost priority. She never went up stairs until finding Charlie. Charlie BTW makes a lot of noise for somebody trying to be stealthy!.

C. Once having done so(Searched the entire premises) you secure the perimeter if at all possible. This includes barricading windows, pulling blinds. covering up windows. She didn't even think to shut the door at first! And the door wasn't kicked in or anything, suddenly it was broken?? She got around to this, much too late. Like a hey, I should maybe make it so walkers can't get in..tee hee hee,

D. you don't light candles and start fires with walkers at the windows??? It attracts them. Unless you've covered up the windows! Or unless you need an excuse for the walkers to eventually break in. Because you're not really a survivor of a ZA you're an actress doing what your thoughtless writers tell you to do.

D made it clear that they were setting it up for an eventual PLOT DEVICE of the walkers breaking through ON PURPOSE! Like I said, normally walkers outside wouldn't be an issue, you stay quiet and they shamble off, except for Alicia doing things a seasoned survivor WOULDN'T DO. What would she do instead? She'd take the girl, barricade a bedroom and cover up with blankets for warmth. Instead they literally have her LURING walkers! They probably could have done this with an unseen downstairs room too. Like the kitchen. They needed walkers to eventually come in forcing the girls to flee.

You can do that with Fear. Watch for stupid things and try to figure out how they're going to use that out of place, out of character, or just plain dumbness thing to set up a situation. Like they did in the previous episode having Lucianna listen to music so intently she almost died. I saw them setting that up the instant it started. These writers can't write well, and it shows when they have to set up things like that constantly to move on to future situations.

When Alicia can't figure out how car doors work... she collapses and is knocked out. Alicia's much bigger than Charlie.Try to imagine Charlie dragging her all that way! It's pretty much the most unbelievable part of a show with zombies in it. Not only that but we had a simple house basement filling up like the contractor never heard of runoff or drainage. If, when they went outside there was evidence of flooding it might have made sense, but there was none.The water seemed to choose to flood only this basement for...the sake...of the story! When they came out the cellar door the water should have been right up to the top, It's not!

Fear has a long standing legacy of setting up nonsensical situations, and happenstance so they can further the story along. That has not been corrected at all. Charlie could have easily put Alicia in the car, and they could have had their bonding right there, in the car. But instead they had her apparently get Alicia into the house, LEAVE HER ALONE, without securing the front door, and go upstairs. To help set up everything that follows. But it makes no sense! At the very least she should have stayed with Alicia to protect her while she was knocked out. It even ends stupidly, here's a walker, with a large tree stuck through him, it's not like he's going to be able to sprint after you. Yet Alicia pulls out a gun and shoots him, WITH OTHER WALKERS RIGHT NEARBY!

They did this so much of that in this episode people should re-play it as a drinking game! Everytime they do something stupid...

I'm just not in it for dragged out personal drama. I was not engaged. I kept pausing it so could go do something interesting. Eventually I tried to watch the last 10 minutes of it and I fell asleep. Mayor yawn fest!

I was expecting more events and more flashback about what happend but guess what? Another boring long explained scenes about that dumb kid

The title says it all! Most boring episode and season!!

I am usually a harsh critic of this show, but I really loved this episode, the acting was on another level, also it was very well written with attention to small details.. unlike most FTWD or even TWD episodes..

Would love to see more of this..

.. until the 15th minute. You finally get the payoff you've been waiting for, after 10 Episodes.

I mean, let's be honest: The story telling is just bad. They had 10 episodes to explain what really happened at the stadium, and I actually liked the back and forth story lines. Sure, you knew who would die, but it wasn't about that. It was about, what really happened. But then, the midseason finale just gave you a Madison, luring away zombies, that never needed to be lured away, because her daughter was stuck at a place she could have easily avoided by just driving for 10 more seconds. Anyways, the story about the stadium just ends there, without any explaination what happened afterwards and why the hell that piece of trash Naomi joins the group who destroyed and killed all those people. Honestly, I just wanted to see her get shot by Alicia, just give that to her... but no! They go on a crazy rampage (as three people), killing all those saviours (AS THREE PEOPLE) just for no real reason why Naomi did what she did but a Morgan, playing the moralizer again and again. I mean, Jesus Christ!! What is this story telling?!? Where is the payoff for the viewer, who mourns the death of two of the main characters? Where is the reason why all this had to happen? Why the "bad" people always get away with lousy explanations, not even beeing able to express the feeling, that they know what they had done and it was the wrong thing.

But now, this episode comes along. And the first 15 minutes are really well shot and framed. A minimum of (bad) CGI and more or less good lightning causing some atmosphere in that broken house, where Alicia seeks shelter from the worst CGI storm in The Walking Dead history. And then she finds Charlie. You alreay know by then, that she won't kill her, the episode just started. It is clear, where this is going.

And I must admit, the speech Alicia gives is bone shattering. It is filled with the payoff you wanted from the moment you knew that Charlie shot Nick. Alicia verbally rips Charlie apart and it is, to me, by far the best moment of the whole show, from season 1 to now.

I mean, would this be a real life situation, Charlie would be emotionally and mentally damaged for the rest of her life, just sobbing endlessly in a corner. But not on FTWD, no no no (BITCONNEEEECT, sorry, I had to do that). Instead of showing her breaking down on the other side of the door, the creators of this garbage train just show her NEARLY crying and then fade to black.."That's it guys, that's the payoff for 10 episodes, but we also have our bollocks story to continue with the horrible writing we have started, so yeah... We just take that payoff away now and fade to black, ok?"

And that's it. From that moment, the episode is just downhill. Alicia turning into Madison 2.0, forgiving Charlie for what she has done, seeing the best in people, no matter what. The whole speech Alicia gave just seems to have zero impact on Charlies behaviour. First she tries to get bit by a walker, just to tell Alicia afterwards that she doesn't want to end up like them and she doesn't want to die (boy oh boy...) and Alicia just motivates her and later even tells her about the beach like they are bffs now... Holy Cow!

It seems like the characters on FTWD are able to go through all the stages of mourn, loss, hate, revenge and forgiveness, practially nearly every human emotion, by just one night in a shabby cabin. Everything is forgiven now guys, Charlie is now part of the group, you don't even dare to ask about mental instability or her feeling of regret about what she has done.

But I've seen this on TWD aswell, when Carol went from badass superkiller to sobbing old I-don't-wanna-do-this-anymore-leave-me-alone-lady to badass turbokiller again without any real explanation. So I'm not surprised, about the poor quality of drama on this show, which is actually pretty sad for a show, that tries to center around human emotions, relationships and interactions in a post-apocalyptic world.

So, I'm rating this a 3 out of 10, because until minute 15 I was hyped and enjoyed the episode, but after that it just got washed down the drain (no phun intended).

Overall, the ratings of the latest episodes speak for themself. The people are done with this show and it gets worse and worse every week. Season 5 will be the last for FTWD, I call it now. I will still watch it, because I want to know how bad the writing will get.

Does anybody else wish they'd just film this show in black and white instead of using a gray filter? Absence of color would be a lot less hideous than constantly looking at gray skin and gray sky and gray plants and gray teeth.