I must point out at every opportunity how loathsome, inept, contemptuous, ugly and idiotic Dick Tracy is.

As I remarked below, badly directed — the Gregory/Simon scenes were lit and shot like something out of Blazing Saddles.

No, Magruder.

The comic book Negan story gets very interesting and goes in many unexpected directions.

"Petrol"?

The Negan thing isn't working right, but "He's taking it like a champ!" was a great line. So frighteningly barbaric and cruel.

He may be gay, but Ross Marquand's really been butching up the performance. He's become Mr. gruff manly growl and bleak look.

He's just such a terrible actor. He can't get a single line across convincingly — it makes you appreciate how they lucked out with Kiernan Shipka. Chandler Riggs makes Jason Priestley look like Brando.

As with Westworld, Zack can't deal with any programming if he doesn't understand what the "point being made" is. He thinks that's the purpose of fiction — to deliver a "point."

This was a badly-directed episode, from a technical standpoint — the scene between Gregory and Negan's lieutenant in particular was blocked, lit and shot like something out of Blazing Saddles — but the actors were good as usual and the story proceeded very nicely.

I try to be kind to Chandler Riggs, but the muppet-like way he stuck his head out of the stack of boxes with that ridiculous look on his face was the opposite of dramatic.

Good — thank you. Now we're conversing and nobody's being unnecessarily dismissive.

Is that the first time we've seen "backstage" in the past before the contemporary story? (I mean, actually seen it; not that nitwit theorizing about how the Bernard/Dolores interactions are from back in the old days.)

My priorities are a well-made, intelligent, cerebral, dramatic show with great acting, high production values, and skillful writing, and that's The Walking Dead. The fact that it's zombies (and that it's emotionally manipulative, in the best way) keeps people from noticing how sophisticated it is — how, for example,…

I'm not "hostage." It's nuanced. And, like, I'm watching it and you haven't seen it for four years, after two of its weakest seasons, but it doesn't matter; you know better. And with all due respect to The Washington Post I don't need help watching a TV show; I know how to do it.

Right, that's me all over. I'm so fucking stupid that I can't tell the difference. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

You know, I get a lot of dissent and even contempt when I post comments here, and that's fine, but this is one of the few times I've actually gotten angry. How rude and insulting. Are you six years old?

Right. It's cool to go back and see her first appearance (at the "bunny farm") and realize how they're going to such lengths to make her look younger with the baggy overalls and sheepish, shy behavior. — then she shows up "a few years later" in the Verizon storefront, behaving like an adult in a tight shirt etc.

I wish I was allowed to make up which two unrelated characters in any particular story were "the same person."

I'm so tired of those two idiots. They're literally holding the control panel and they still can't rein her in.