Review of The Key

The Walking Dead: The Key (2018)
Season 8, Episode 12
1/10
The Walking Soap Opera lumbers on. More contrivances. Where's the story? "Feelings, Nothing more than Feelings!"
19 March 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Ok, so Rick (Dick) is back in the fold, Hilltop. He screwed up Alexandria, now he's at another area to screw up. Darryl comes over like a kid who done wrong and apologizes to Dick for screwing things up with the assault on Saviorville. Yeah, great. Thanks for nothing.

Maggy gets a note to meet up with some New People. That's all we need. More freaks to think about. These people want records, no spoken word. Come on. More conflict with Michone and Enid. Enid wants to kill. Michone does not want to kill. These people are unreal!

Man, no laughs in this episode.

So, now we see Dick spying on the Savior convoy on a dirt road on their way to Hilltop. We see Dick contemplating honking his horn to notify Hilltop. What suspense. Should he or should he not honk his horn. Next we see the Savior Convoy in a city/town allyway. They went from dirt road to a freaking allyway. Then Dick crashes his car on Negan's car. Neeg pulls away, Dick follows. The rest of the Savys block the road. Simon and Dwayne after a conference follow. Oh the suspense.

So, we see Neeg has crashed his car, Dick starts shooting, misses, Neeg goes into a building, Dick shoots, still misses, and runs out of bullets. Anybody heard of reloading? What happened to Neeg's guns? Neeg's got his Lucile, Dick throws his hatchet and misses. Neeg falls down to the basement, Dick follows, and what follows is some serious negotiations. Neeg offers to forgive Dick if he works for him. Dick threatens to kill Neeg, AGAIN. How exciting. Then, Neeg goes out the window. Well, since Dick went out the window twice in Alexandria, Neeg can also do that. Dick follows.

Next we see Neeg in a car, and we all assume that Dick captured him. But no it's the Junk Queen. How the hell did Dick turn into the Junk Queen? That's a great trick.

I'm still waiting for Plan 10 From Outer Space. Maybe those aliens can come back and bring CORAL back to life, along with Bela Lugosi and Ed Wood. Coral can mediate a peace with Dick and Neeg. And maybe Coral can even mediate a peace for Lugosi and Wood, after Wood denigrated Lugosi's carrier with a pile of garbage.

From Vlad the Impaler, Vlad III Dracule, Prince of Walachia, the real bad dude, to Bram Stoker's Dracula novel, to Noseferatu 1922, to Dracula/Bela Lugosi 1931, to White Zombie/Bela Lugosi 1932, to Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend 1954, to Vincent Price is The Last Man on Earth 1964, to Romero's Night of the Living Dead, to Messiah of Evil 1972, we have degenerated into a morph of the zombie undead into the background of a human to human soap opera contrived battles of Rick the Dick (the supposed good guy, who can't shoot straight anymore) and Negan the laughing false prophet (The Savior).

We are in the land of Feelings. Feelings by Morris Albert "Feelings, Nothing more than feelings, Trying to forget my, Feelings of hate"

Please listen to the song for dramatic effect while watching: The Walking Soap Opera
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