Time for After
- Episode aired Dec 3, 2017
- TV-MA
- 44m
Negan has to enlist the help of his lieutenants in solving a huge issue facing The Sanctuary; Rick and the group continue to enact the plan.Negan has to enlist the help of his lieutenants in solving a huge issue facing The Sanctuary; Rick and the group continue to enact the plan.Negan has to enlist the help of his lieutenants in solving a huge issue facing The Sanctuary; Rick and the group continue to enact the plan.
- Maggie Greene
- (credit only)
- Carl Grimes
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- Carol Peletier
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- Aaron
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- Paul 'Jesus' Rovia
- (credit only)
- Gregory
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- Ezekiel
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- Simon
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaStuntman John Bernecker died on set during the filming of this episode.
- Quotes
Dr. Eugene Porter: [to Gabriel, fuming] The answer is no! I will never, not on your nelly, be on board with your plan. Your invite is declined. I will not end up like Sasha or you. You both made your choices, what I imagine most will calculate as the right thing, rolled your D20s and came up dead, and seemingly soon to be. I cannot do the same. Now judge me if you choose, but I'm seeing 20 for 20, I'm feeling 10 for 10, and I'm receiving 5 by 5 that staying safe means staying alive, and I'm A-okay with doing whatever it takes to lock that down. So I WILL obey Negan. I will NOT cover for anyone's U-turn on loyalties, and I will damn well make sure that Dr. Carson stays cozy and comfy right here in case I ever require his healing expertise. And I won't feel bad about it. Because I will survive. It's in my biological imperative. It's all I know how to do.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Talking Dead: The King, the Widow and Rick (2017)
"Time for After" is another one of Season 8's worst and another one of 'The Walking Dead's' biggest duds. Very little works and the worst of the bad components are executed awfully. It also sees one of the fandom's least favourite characters at his most annoying. Again, am not saying this out of spite or wanting to hate it, absolutely no agenda here. Merely an honest opinion of real frustration and disappointment, and contrary to what defenders say that is actually the case with the vast majority of those that hated the episode and season (especially when there are valid reasons for the dislike and not personal attacks or conspiracy theories).
Do think that almost the entire cast do a game effort with what they have, which is truly beneath them. The acting is definitely the least bad aspect here.
There are points where the production values have a nice atmosphere that is suitably unforgiving.
Unfortunately, "Time for After" fails everywhere else. The writing, story and the way the characters are written are, very bad. Anybody that hated the writing in Season 7 will hate it even more here. It doesn't thought-provoke, have emotion or suspense and is not tight, it is all aimless, tedious talk in pure soap melodrama style with a lot of awkwardness and repetition. Eugene's dialogue made me cringe into my seat. Not only does "Time for After" lack any kind of tension, is too thin for the running time, is pretty much constantly exactly what you expect and is painfully dull a lot of the time. Not much happens, with none of it interesting, and nothing or nobody advances in development really.
Furthermore, the action far from explodes. Actually found it lacking in cohesion visually, ridiculously staged and pedestrian and that's when there was any. The characters are all dull or annoying, with decision making and motives that defy all kinds of logic and makes one want to bang their head against a wall. Eugene has never been a favourite character of mine and that is putting it mildly, here he is at his most reprehensible and impossible to get behind. Considering that most of the episode is centered him that is a big problem. Personally didn't think his development was that illuminating and it did little for his character or for anybody to change their mind, his dialogue is also risible to an insulting degree. The episode doesn't even look good generally, excepting moments of unforgiving atmosphere in namely the lighting, found it quite disorganised and self-indulgent especially in the final act.
Very bad episode once again. 2/10.
- TheLittleSongbird
- Jan 31, 2022
Details
- Runtime44 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 16:9 HD