I'll totally agree with that last part. This episode was such a mess. I wonder if I paid more attention to the writers/directors if I could tell who the good ones were in this show. Whoever did this week seemed remarkably bad.

I felt like she was crying over the people she couldn't save and not the killing she had to do. But I'll concede that I might have selective memory on this. I just feel like at least the past few seasons she's been a-ok killing people who really have it coming.

Right, but the whole intro to this episode kinda deflated that emotional momentum she had. It felt really out of place in the end of this episode. It would've made more sense to have her just leave and then have it be revealed at the end of the episode that she did.

I watched Dexter in order once. So for me the moment I realized "hey, his monotone inner monologue isn't masking a troubled inner soul struggling with his own darkness but is just hiding bad writing" it rewrote the whole show for me. I'm pretty convinced Dexter started as an actually good show, and I'm completely…

It was just a sloppy episode so that they found booze this episode and then he takes a drink out of sadness worries me they are telegraphing something problematic for the future, I agree it would come out of nowhere, but Carol made a big decision that came out of nowhere (for this episode at least). I hope and mostly…

Did you hear those 2 times they talked about the guy? What is this male-centric bullshit?!? 0/10

"It's a side-effect of the virus." - Answer to any problem like that you might have.

I felt like that one was spiteful. After woman attacked baby Carol went into "well then fuck all you people, mode"

I was happy with Denise dying and this episode sucked.

To be fair they've done a few episodes where they give secondary characters stuff to do and then don't kill them. They've done a few misdirects. But this time they just misdirected you by making you bored by Denise being dumb that you are startled by the death, if not surprised.

I think the shootout was visually incoherent because they didn't have a logical way to play out that scene that had that outcome. I wish there is just a single-take wide shot of what happened there because I'm convinced it would've had several people standing motionless for a while.

I agree with most of what you are saying, just not as broad a brush as you are painting. So mostly it was this episode that really sucked not the writers being bad forever or anything. Like you said it's been strong recently, just god not this episode, this episode was a mess.

"Mrs Niedermeyer wants a pasta maker"

What was Denise's good deed? What personal growth did she have?

I don't even remember a single zombie in anything Shakespeare.

Yeah, leave the Shakespeare comparisons for fitting shows… like Sons of Anarchy.

I think what is bad is that you don't get to kill of characters for shock value when you didn't create them. It feels like cheating.

She only succeeded at being stupid, and Eugene kinda failed at that so I don't know that any of it make sense.

Maybe they weren't trying to kill them but instead just hated that door and wanted to shoot it.

I know. I'm convinced that they did those close up shots because there is literally no way that scene could play out making sense in reality.