ah wasn't quite filler like last wk, just not a lot for an hours investment.
slo burners r all well & good but if u rely on old tropes then the tension is replaced by familiarity & boredom settles in.
this ep as the end of act 2 had a clearing of the decks had a bit more value than last week. & maybe too much to combine the two into one ep..

still get a move on already
I'm beginning to reconcile myself that this wont be resolved completely.. if at all..

everything that's good & bad w/this show this week
action was funny & even tense
when it slowed down it was boring shite
rick's cool. the glen thing was kinda dopey, the kinda stupid soap opera shit that drags it into adolescent melodrama. michonne & ricks son (esp ricks cheesy son) are treading a fine line, saved only by the fact michonne is p neat. it's a good idea of emphasis her character this term round. but it's like more than enough already about her dead kid. get to the killing.

So what's going to happen?

The Tuttles are obv involved but there's prob other forces at work too..?? There's a cover-up some 'powerful people' are involved in & we better figure the police complicit at some level (the presence of that special religious crimes investigation)..

Who is it then? The lawn mower guy? That politician Tuttle guy (the reverend one is dead, yea?)??
Or is it woody?
Or woodys bitch wife? Is her father involved? He was into some shit I'm sure prob some cult type thing where he abused woodys gothslut kid..

Who knows?
It's been a fun ride whatever happens.

Hope we get to see those tits again before this run ends.

also i don't really see the michael mann fit on this one. aside from maybe the killer action scene in the prev ep.
it rings more like a southern gothic to me.
don't really get those anymore unless they're kinda cartoony (sam raimi/american gothic/horror story).
i suppose the closest there'd be would be the coen bro's & their noir flicks. but the show is just fine the way it is. even if latest ep was a stinker. william friedkin maybe who did killer joe w/mcc recently or yea guys like raimi/american gothic, people closer to that genre than the hyper realism of mann would be more suited imo.

boring p.o.s. ep this week first time dropping the ball
possible even jump the shark it got so stupid
fingers crossed it bounces back good

still, compared to consistently terrible tv like twd td still has a lot to offer. but that ep & the latest direction are pure padding bs, unforgivable to take liberties so soon really.. feel betrayed in a sense, thought this show promised not to be like every other show but i guess it didn't. my fault for getting hyped/excited i suppose.