The Raft
- Episode aired May 8, 2022
- TV-MA
- 45m
IMDb RATING
5.9/10
1.5K
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Morgan and Alicia plan their next steps. Dwight and Sherry face the prospect of having to choose between their code and their safety.Morgan and Alicia plan their next steps. Dwight and Sherry face the prospect of having to choose between their code and their safety.Morgan and Alicia plan their next steps. Dwight and Sherry face the prospect of having to choose between their code and their safety.
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Colman Domingo
- Victor Strand
- (credit only)
Alexa Nisenson
- Charlie
- (credit only)
Karen David
- Grace Mukherjee
- (voice)
Jenna Elfman
- June Dorie
- (credit only)
Jenny Biggs
- Walker
- (uncredited)
Megan Boehmcke
- Ex-Cultist
- (uncredited)
Ron Bonge
- Ex-Cultist
- (uncredited)
Jared Gibson
- Elias Vazquez
- (uncredited)
Nito Larioza
- Tower Ranger
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaAll entries contain spoilers
- GoofsIn the scene after the dead horse there is a shiny large equipment road case seen in shot with its lid closed, then as the characters leave the shot the case is seen in the top of the shot and its lid is open.
Featured review
Helmed by Dwight and Sherry, "The Raft" feels more serialized and overall an improvement in quality
Gary S. Rake directed this week's episode of Fear TWD. The direction and visual storytelling is quite good, the cinematography and editing were also quite good but too simplistic. The sound editing and musical score is fantastic. The flaws from season 7A are still present, and the writing is extremely flawed. Some of the dialogue and motivations are stupid and very forced, I just don't get why almost all the characters has to be so mysterious and not upfront with things, it continues in every episode and it feels like the showrunners like that kind of writing, well I don't. Andrew Chambliss and Ian B. Goldberg and the staff writers are unfortunately unable to write good dialogue. They come out sounding wooden and unrealistic, then again, dialogue can be hard to write. But these guys are poor at it, Fear deserves better writing overall, like the quality it had in S1-3. The dialogue for Dwight and Sherry was delivered right and written nicely.
Morgan and Alicia plan their next steps. Dwight and Sherry face the prospect of having to choose between their code and their safety. That's the premise of the episode and it gives us much needed screen time for Dwight and Sherry but most importantly gives Morgan and Alicia more screen time. The performances Austin Amelio and Christine Evangelista gave might have been some of the season's best, I've written it in previous reviews, but Dwight is one of my favorite characters and it's so nice to see Austin Amelio still enjoying the character of Dwight. I think Colby Hollman might have delivered his worst performance as Wes, him turning antagonistic is just off, how the showrunners character assassinated the character they created, is beyond me.
"The Raft" was a step forward in terms of quality regarding the previous episodes, it still is far from a good episode but at least bearable to watch, with actors and characters I'm interested in. Sadly it can go from good to bad in a matter of minutes, but when Dwight and Sherry is alone and not when rangers is appearing magically, the episode is actually quite great as the character interactions and drama between them kept me interested and entertained. But I strongly believe the individual stories/episodes don't work like they did in S6 when everyone was apart. As Fear used to be a serialized show and did it perfectly, I can't say the same with Andrew Chambliss and Ian B. Goldberg run. Season 3 is a good example of a storyline being full of depth and serialized drama, and the civil war in this season had the potential, sadly it never hit its potential and now when there's only a few episodes left, the "war" has truly started. This episode actually felt more serialized, with it starting almost immediately after the previous episode. Honestly, I liked this episode more than I first expected I would. I still think the magically appearing Rangers is something that shouldn't happen, that whole "chase" was bad. Instead I would have written it with lots of walkers in and no ammunition, that would have been logic and much more suspenseful. But come on, Strand is trying to settle a rebellion inside his Tower, so why is he sending a lot of Rangers and men to hunt Morgan who took a baby, bad leadership but the writers doesn't like logic as we have learned. Do they have an endless amount of rangers? So many have died off screen and on screen, I don't know anymore, the inhabitants feel really small in the Tower as we haven't seen much of it other than talked about. But to end the review on a positive note, I liked it.
Morgan and Alicia plan their next steps. Dwight and Sherry face the prospect of having to choose between their code and their safety. That's the premise of the episode and it gives us much needed screen time for Dwight and Sherry but most importantly gives Morgan and Alicia more screen time. The performances Austin Amelio and Christine Evangelista gave might have been some of the season's best, I've written it in previous reviews, but Dwight is one of my favorite characters and it's so nice to see Austin Amelio still enjoying the character of Dwight. I think Colby Hollman might have delivered his worst performance as Wes, him turning antagonistic is just off, how the showrunners character assassinated the character they created, is beyond me.
"The Raft" was a step forward in terms of quality regarding the previous episodes, it still is far from a good episode but at least bearable to watch, with actors and characters I'm interested in. Sadly it can go from good to bad in a matter of minutes, but when Dwight and Sherry is alone and not when rangers is appearing magically, the episode is actually quite great as the character interactions and drama between them kept me interested and entertained. But I strongly believe the individual stories/episodes don't work like they did in S6 when everyone was apart. As Fear used to be a serialized show and did it perfectly, I can't say the same with Andrew Chambliss and Ian B. Goldberg run. Season 3 is a good example of a storyline being full of depth and serialized drama, and the civil war in this season had the potential, sadly it never hit its potential and now when there's only a few episodes left, the "war" has truly started. This episode actually felt more serialized, with it starting almost immediately after the previous episode. Honestly, I liked this episode more than I first expected I would. I still think the magically appearing Rangers is something that shouldn't happen, that whole "chase" was bad. Instead I would have written it with lots of walkers in and no ammunition, that would have been logic and much more suspenseful. But come on, Strand is trying to settle a rebellion inside his Tower, so why is he sending a lot of Rangers and men to hunt Morgan who took a baby, bad leadership but the writers doesn't like logic as we have learned. Do they have an endless amount of rangers? So many have died off screen and on screen, I don't know anymore, the inhabitants feel really small in the Tower as we haven't seen much of it other than talked about. But to end the review on a positive note, I liked it.
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