The Portrait
- Episode aired Nov 21, 2021
- TV-MA
- 46m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
1.8K
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When baby Mo gets sick, Morgan successfully pleads for entry into Strand's Tower; Morgan quickly learns even Strand's benevolence has its limitsWhen baby Mo gets sick, Morgan successfully pleads for entry into Strand's Tower; Morgan quickly learns even Strand's benevolence has its limitsWhen baby Mo gets sick, Morgan successfully pleads for entry into Strand's Tower; Morgan quickly learns even Strand's benevolence has its limits
Danay Garcia
- Luciana Galvez
- (credit only)
Mo Collins
- Sarah Rabinowitz
- (credit only)
Alexa Nisenson
- Charlie
- (credit only)
Colby Hollman
- Wes
- (credit only)
Rubén Blades
- Daniel Salazar
- (credit only)
Daryl Mitchell
- Wendell
- (as Daryl 'Chill' Mitchell)
Jenny Biggs
- Walker
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFirst appearance of Alycia Debnam-Carey in season 7 after only being credited only.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Talking Dead: The Portrait/Death and the Dead (2021)
Featured review
Surprisingly, The Portrait is a great episode that focuses on story and it seems Fear is back
Heather Cappiello directed this week's episode of Fear TWD. She does an amazing job with the direction and visual storytelling, the camera work and cinematography are all quite great. The sound editing and musical score is fantastic. There's not that many flaws with this episode, thankfully. But it's not perfect. The writing is flawed yet meeting the showrunners standard. But the showrunners are finally moving on with the story and it has lots of things I've been looking forward to, things I thought would appear in episode 3 but here we are on episode 7.07 and nearly half way through. The dialogue is still quite bad which it has been since season 4 and the overall writing feels unrealistic. But I get it, they have created this nuclear aftermath fantasy and that's all it is, a fantasy because of how badly the execution was.
When baby Mo gets sick, Morgan successfully pleads for entry into Strand's Tower; Morgan quickly learns even Strand's benevolence has its limits. That's the premise of the episode and well I still dislike the direction Victor Strand is taking as it's not him. But the confrontation between him and Morgan Jones is something I looked forward to and it wasn't what I expected. Instead it's more focused on the "Stalkers", the writers doesn't even know what a stalker is. But seeing these two groups go against each other was something the season have built towards, extremely slowly.
"The Portrait" was surprisingly a great episode, it exceeded my expectations. It's among the better episodes but that doesn't say much, but it might possibly be the best so far. About the writing and the scope of things, how they're relying on the anthology format in what was a serialized TV show. Where's the smart writing? Where's the foreshadowing? The scenes with tension and suspension has no heart as the writers never took time to build it up, build up leads to good storytelling and satisfying scenes. The director and cast does a terrific job with the script they got. Colman Domingo is truly terrific in this episode, his performance is superb and I just wish he had a better script to work with. Lennie James is also quite great in this. I just wish the season had more heart and a more well thought out story to tell, which season 6 had. My honest opinion is that the focus of this first half of the season have been so wrong, the pacing awful. It should have been three perspectives: Strand, Morgan and Stalkers. With the months into the nuclear aftermath, everyone should have been together and not everyone trying to find each other again as it was done in season 6. But did I enjoy this episode? Yessir and almost the entire 50 minutes of the episode. Characters still make dumb decisions though and there's plenty of writing that makes you scratch your head, but overall it's a great episode. Heather Cappiello's direction was great and the return of Alicia was appreciated, she have been missing ever since episode 6.14... nine episodes. But it looks like the showrunners finally cares about the character.
When baby Mo gets sick, Morgan successfully pleads for entry into Strand's Tower; Morgan quickly learns even Strand's benevolence has its limits. That's the premise of the episode and well I still dislike the direction Victor Strand is taking as it's not him. But the confrontation between him and Morgan Jones is something I looked forward to and it wasn't what I expected. Instead it's more focused on the "Stalkers", the writers doesn't even know what a stalker is. But seeing these two groups go against each other was something the season have built towards, extremely slowly.
"The Portrait" was surprisingly a great episode, it exceeded my expectations. It's among the better episodes but that doesn't say much, but it might possibly be the best so far. About the writing and the scope of things, how they're relying on the anthology format in what was a serialized TV show. Where's the smart writing? Where's the foreshadowing? The scenes with tension and suspension has no heart as the writers never took time to build it up, build up leads to good storytelling and satisfying scenes. The director and cast does a terrific job with the script they got. Colman Domingo is truly terrific in this episode, his performance is superb and I just wish he had a better script to work with. Lennie James is also quite great in this. I just wish the season had more heart and a more well thought out story to tell, which season 6 had. My honest opinion is that the focus of this first half of the season have been so wrong, the pacing awful. It should have been three perspectives: Strand, Morgan and Stalkers. With the months into the nuclear aftermath, everyone should have been together and not everyone trying to find each other again as it was done in season 6. But did I enjoy this episode? Yessir and almost the entire 50 minutes of the episode. Characters still make dumb decisions though and there's plenty of writing that makes you scratch your head, but overall it's a great episode. Heather Cappiello's direction was great and the return of Alicia was appreciated, she have been missing ever since episode 6.14... nine episodes. But it looks like the showrunners finally cares about the character.
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- Nov 30, 2021
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