Fear the Walking Dead: Skidmark (2019)
Season 5, Episode 4
1/10
I have finally lost the final ounce of respect I had for this show
24 June 2019
Warning: Spoilers
The season premiere was incredibly average. Literally nothing of value. The second episode was a slight improvement, but still super awkward and dumb. The third episode was a new low for the show - splitting a revolver bullet off an axe being held by someone's weak, wavy, injured arm in the perfect way as to hit two walkers square in the head at once - enough said. I honestly thought it couldn't get worse. Lmaooooo

This is quite possibly the worst episode of television I've had the absolute displeasure of watching. Literally not one single aspect of this episode was even remotely passable: acting, writing, camerawork, all beyond pathetic.

1. There is no way a cat could be that well-trained, and especially not one that was found in the wild during the god damn zombie apocalypse. You would be led to believe that Daniel was a master cat-trainer before the collapse and did it every day for 45 years, but no cat was ever mentioned until we met this orange plot-moving device a couple of episodes ago. Ridiculous.

2. So Daniel wanted to tell Ofelia that every day is a new day? It's incredibly hard to censor myself because I don't know how else to convey just the absolute stupidity of that whole idea. What did Ofelia ever do or experience to be told by her father that every day is a new day? Why make that the first thing you tell your daughter after being led to believe that she's missing or dead for months? What does every day being a new day have to do with anything that was happening whatsoever during season 3? Jesus Christ, I'm screaming internally.

3. "Lol sorry I shot you in your face and lied to you about your daughter's whereabouts help me tho please lmao"

4. Charlie says to the camera "we have to help him" with the delivery of an iCarly character. You can tell that she wasn't prepared for this scene at all because she shakes her head like 83,000 times in 18 quintillion different directions before saying her line with her eye line passing the camera every single second and with less emotion than a wooden spoon.

5. Every word out of Sarah's mouth is meant to be quick and witty and haha quirky Marvel movie humour, but I can't listen to any sound she makes without retreating into myself like a raisin.

6. On a similar note, Mitchell or whatever the hell his name is (just looked it up: Wendell); what the hell purpose does he serve on this show? Frankly, what the hell purpose does anybody serve on this show? Remove this guy, Sarah, Luciana, Dwight, John, Naomilaurajunelikethemonthhahahahahahaha, the story stays exactly the same.

7. Daniel spouts off cheesy one-liners in Spanish to his cat.

8. These idiot children with the collective acting range and IQ of a rotting blueberry are the worst antagonists in fiction history as far as I'm concerned.

9. The "tense" moments that our group of mental handicaps get into are so incredibly forced and could so easily be resolved or, better yet, avoided entirely if anyone in this show had a positive IQ.

10. So either this is the last we see of Daniel, or he'll be back in the nick of time in a Deus Ex Machina to save our group from "peril" in the future, and frankly, I don't know which would make me hang myself sooner.

I know there's so many more things I had to say but thinking about this episode to such a degree has caused me to become temporarily braindead and I can no longer focus. This is the worst show ever made. See y'all next week
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